

Trump, Ivana Trump confirmed that she had "felt violated". In Harry Hurt III's book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump of rape and of pulling out handfuls of her hair. In a deposition relating to their divorce, she accused Donald J.

The Trumps' divorce proceedings appeared on New York tabloid newspapers' covers for 11 days in a row, and Liz Smith wrote about nothing else for three months. That Christmas, when the family was on vacation in Aspen, Colorado, Ivana Trump encountered Marla Maples who would later become Donald's second wife. Jaroslav Jansa, codename "Jarda" and secret collaborator to the StB also attended the funeral. Ivana stood side-by-side with her husband Donald at the funeral in Zlín. Bush would win the 1988 presidential election. According to The Guardian, her father – Miloš Zelníček – was an informer for Czechoslovakia's Státní bezpečnost (StB) intelligence service and relayed information from Ivana Trump, including a prediction that George H.W. In October 1990, Ivana Trump's 63-year-old father died suddenly from a heart attack. Afterwards, her then-husband appointed her to head up the Trump Castle Hotel and Casino as president. She became the Vice President of Interior Design for the company, leading the signature design of Trump Tower. Ivana took a major role in The Trump Organization. learned to speak fluent Czech (with help of his maternal grandfather), while daughter Ivanka has only basic understanding of her mother's native tongue and Eric was not exposed to the language because at the time of his birth his grandparents were already comfortable enough in using English. (born December 31, 1977), Ivanka Trump (born October 30, 1981), and Eric Trump (born January 6, 1984).

They had three children: Donald Trump Jr. They worked on several large projects, including the renovation of the Grand Hyatt Hotel in New York City, construction of the Trump Taj Mahal Casino Resort in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and the Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan. Donald and Ivana Trump became leading figures in New York society during the 1980s. Winklmayr were married in 1977 in a lavish wedding officiated by Norman Vincent Peale. In this capacity Ivana was in New York City with a group of models in 1976 where she met Donald Trump. Her modeling jobs included promoting the 1976 Summer Olympics that were being hosted in Montreal. For the following two years, she lived in Montreal, improved her English by taking night courses at McGill University, and worked as a model. After her then boyfriend George (Jiři) Staidl was killed in a car accident in 1973, Ivana moved to Canada where she lived with George (Jiři) Syrovatka whom she had dated since 1967 he had defected to Canada in 1971 and owned a ski boutique in Montreal. She received her Austrian passport in March 1972 and, as Ivana Winklmayr, in 1973 obtained an absentee divorce from Alfred Winklmayr in Los Angeles, California, where he had moved to teach skiing. In 1971, Zelníčková married Austrian ski instructor Alfred Winklmayr to obtain Austrian citizenship to be able to leave Communist Czechoslovakia without defecting and being therefore unable to return to visit her parents. In 1989, Petr Pomezný, Secretary General of the Czechoslovak Olympic Committee, said, "Who is this Ivana woman, and why do people keep calling us about her? We have searched so many times and have consulted many, many people, and there is no such girl in our records." Relationships Czechoslovakia did not send an ski team to the 1972 Winter Olympics. Īccording to Trump, she was selected as an alternate on the Czechoslovak ski team during the 1972 Winter Olympics, her specialties being the downhill and slalom. In the early 1970s, she attended Charles University in Prague. From the age of 13, her father nurtured and encouraged her skiing talent. Ivana Zelníčková was born on Februin the Moravian town of Zlín (formerly known as Gottwaldov), Czechoslovakia, the daughter of Miloš Zelníček (1927–1990) and Marie Zelníčková (née Francová).
