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10 Things You Probably Didn’t Know About The Trump Family

#4- Ivana Zelnickova (The First Wife)

Ivana Zelnickova and Donald Trump 1980

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Ivana Zelnickova is a Czech-American business woman and a former fashion model. Before marrying Trump, she was married to a real estate agent in 1971. After her divorce in 1973, she left Czechoslovakia and moved to Montreal where she lived with a childhood friend George. He ran a ski boutique while she modeled and improved her English by taking night courses at Mcgill University. By the mid 1970’s she was independent and living in New York when she met son of a real estate developer, Fred Trump. She and Donald just hit it off and were married in 1977. Their lavish wedding became the talk of town. They both invested in many projects together including the Trump Tower. She is the mother of the three eldest Trump children.

By the early 1990’s, rumours began to circulate that Trump was having an affair and Ivana filed for divorce. Their court battle made the national gossips headlines. After the divorce in 1991, she has been married twice till then. She is 68 years old now.

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