2 Jan 2012

Ivana Trump Biography


Birth Name : Ivana Marie Zelnickova
Date of Birth : 20 February 1949, Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia
Height : 5' 11½" (1.82 m)
Occupation : Actress, author, socialite

Socialite Ivana Trump initially gained national recognition as the first wife of billionaire Donald_Trump, to whom she was wed from 1977 to 1992. Born Ivana Marie Zelnickova in 1949, she grew up in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia, just south of Prague, and established herself as a champion skier at an early age. After earning her masters in the dual arenas of physical education and languages, Ivana spent a number of years professionally coaching ski racers with then-paramour George Syrovatka in Montréal, Canada, then shifted gears and moved into modeling for the Audrey Morris agency during the 1970s -- a line of work that inadvertently brought her to New York City and introduced her to Donald_Trump in 1976.

In 1995, Ivana published a successful self-help book, The Best Is Yet to Come: Coping With Divorce and Enjoying Life Again, in which she advised women divorcees to "get yourself a great settlement - and before you do, take his wallet to the cleaners." In 1995, Trump married wealthy Italian businessman Riccardo Mazzucchelli, but the couple separated in 1997. In 2008, Ivana Trump married Rossano Rubicondi.

In the late 1990s, Trump created the House of Ivana, a multi-faceted fashion company that manufactured clothes, fragrances, and jewelry, which was sold on the Home Shopping Network.

In December of 2008, Trump officially split from fourth husband Rossano Rubicondi. Trump, 59, and Rubicondi, 36, dated for six years before they married in a lavish ceremony at Donald Trump's Palm Beach, Florida, estate this past April. She blamed the split on the couple wanting to live in different cities.

No comments:

Post a Comment