Ivana Trump Biography | Fandango Ivana Trump Biography Filmography Biography 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. The two married within a year and had three children: Ivanka Trump , Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump. As Mrs. Trump, Ivana worked for many years as vice president of interior design for the Trump Organization.

Following their much-publicized and ballyhooed divorce (an event that occupied an inordinate number of tabloid pages and headlines), she established two of her own companies, Ivana, Inc. and Ivana Haute Couture; graced numerous print advertisements for a plethora of brands; and significantly (like her ex-husband) moved into work as on-camera talent, as the subject of her own Lifetime network biography special, Intimate Portrait: Ivana Trump (2001) and the host of her own reality television special, Ivana Young Man on the Oxygen Channel. The program traveled behind the scenes to witness Trump guiding an affluent young socialite into marriage with the proper suitor. — Nathan Southern, Rovi Ivana Trump. Biography, news, photos and videos Horoscope : Capricorn "Women relate to Ivana because she suffered," says New York gossip columnist Cindy Adams. "If she is over the top with her wardrobe, or the things she says, it is forgiven because she has been beaten down and she has risen to the top.

America loves an underdog." Born on February 20, 1949, in the Czech factory town of Zlin, Ivana Zelnicek spent the first few months of her life in an incubator. Her father Milos, believing it would toughen up the sickly toddler, taught Ivana to ski and swim when she was just two years old. It was a tactic which evidently paid off Ivana later became a member of the country"s youth ski team, although Olympic selectors passed her over for the 1972 squad. Ivana seemed to have it all. Former classmates describe her as clever, pretty, tall and skinny and, even as a teenager, her drive had already begun to manifest itself. This she put down to a lesson learnt at the age of 13. "When I was doing poorly at school, my father yanked me out and got me a job in a shoe factory," she told an interviewer. "After three weeks I begged him to give me another chance at doing well in school. I learned that discipline is necessary to accomplish anything in life." After obtaining a Masters degree in physical education at Charles University in Prague, Ivana emigrated to Canada.

She had married an Austrian skier, Alfred Winklmayr, in 1971, meaning she was able to leave Communist-controlled Czechoslovakia. After learning English in Toronto, she moved to Montreal where she got a job as a model and spent two successful years on the catwalks. While she was sharing a drink with some fellow models in a New York singles bar called Maxwell's Plum in 1976, Ivana's destiny walked in. His name was Donald Trump (or The Donald, as Ivana later dubbed him), an entrepreneur who had inherited his father's $20-million real estate and development business. Nine months later they were married, and in the course of time had three children, Donald Jr, Ivanka, and Eric. In the New York of the Eighties, the Trumps were a force to be reckoned with. The Donald's knack of generating greenbacks, combined with Ivana's talent for publicity, hastened their rise to the top of Big Apple society. When the businessman bought New York's Plaza Hotel, he installed his wife as president on a $1-a-year salary, plus all the couture frocks she wanted estimated at costing around half a million a year.

The couple acquired more property than they had kids including a triplex penthouse in Trump Tower with 50-odd rooms, not to mention their own Boeing 727. Storm clouds were threatening in the golden couple's relationship, however, and Ivana confronted her husband after blonde aspiring actress Marla Maples told her, on the ski slopes of Aspen, that she was in love with Ivana's husband. Two months later, the Trumps separated. A 13-month legal battle over financial settlement ensued, with Ivana, who was granted a divorce on the grounds of "cruel and inhumane treatment", eventually getting a $25-million payout, $10 million of which was in cash. Suddenly Ivana was on her own, and loving it. She decided to build her own empire, dubbing it Ivana Inc, and by 1997 just one arm of her business, the clothes range House Of Ivana, was worth $50 million a year. She has also written, with the help of a ghost writer, two novels and a guide to divorce entitled The Best Is Yet To Come, as well as establishing a magazine, Ivana's Living In Style.

Just months after her divorce, Ivana met Riccardo Mazzucchelli. The Italian businessman was immediately smitten and proposed. Ms Trump held off, however, until the end of 1995 when she and the man she described as a "typical Italian macho", said "I do" in a New York hotel. Twenty-two months later, they both said, "We don't". Almost immediately Ivana took up with another beau Ferrari dealer Roffredo Gaetani di Laurenzana dell'Aquila d'Aragona Lovatelli - to give him his full name - who she met at the Red Cross Ball in Monaco. When that relationship ended she found a new escort in Rossano Rubicondi, a handsome male model 24 years her junior. After six years together, they married at Donald's Mar-A-Lago estate in lavish style on April 12, 2008. But by the following December Ivana was admitting the union was over and a legal separation was in the works. Yet whether she is in a high-profile relationship or dynamically single, Ivana is a trooper and she knows it. "A woman is like a tea bag," she once told HELLO!.

"You never know how strong she is until she gets into hot water." © 2000-2017, HELLO! Ivana Trump on how she advises Donald — and those hands | New York Post Ivana Trump on how she advises Donald — and those hands Modal Trigger It’s Ivana Trump’s fault that Donald didn’t run for president sooner. “Probably five years before our divorce, Reagan or somebody brought him a letter and said, ‘You should run for president,’ ” Donald’s first wife tells The Post at her opulent seven-floor Upper East Side town house, which she purchased for $2.8 million in 1998. “So he was thinking about it. But then . . . there was the divorce, there was the scandal, and American women loved me and hated him,” she says, referencing Donald’s much-publicized infidelity with Marla Maples that led to the power couple’s 1991 split. “So there was no way that he would go into [politics] at that point,” Ivana says. “But he was always tooling around with the idea.” No tooling now — now, Donald’s the GOP front-runner.

And Ivana, a self-proclaimed conservative who has mended fences with her ex, is along for the ride — acting as Donald’s cheerleader and, at times, adviser. “I suggest a few things,” says Ivana, lounging next to her framed 1996 “Got Milk?” ad in the Louis XVI-inspired living room — the fireplace blazing on a 70-degree spring day. The 67-year-old former model is sporting a mini Roberto Cavalli dress with sheer lace panels, an Ivana Trump necklace from her defunct QVC jewelry line (“Now I just prefer to take it easy,” she says of getting out of the accessories business) and her signature blond bouffant. “We speak before and after the appearances and he asks me what I thought,” says Ivana, who tells him to “be more calm” and adds that she gave Donald the motto: “You think it, I say it.” “But Donald cannot be calm,” she admits. “He’s very outspoken. He just says it as it is.” That’s exactly why she thinks The Donald — as she famously referred to him in a 1989 Spy magazine interview — would make a great president. “He’s no politician. He’s a businessman.

He knows how to talk. He can give an hour speech without notes . . . He’s blunt.” She adds that Donald would surround himself with “fantastic advisers, like Carl Icahn. Really brilliant minds. And he’d make a decision! Obama cannot make a decision if his life depends on it. It’s ridiculous.” Donald and Ivana Trump at their Connecticut home in 1987.Getty Images While Ivana says she’s not political — “I was born in a Communist country [Czechoslovakia] and I don’t like politics” — she frets that America has lost its prestige. “We have to get it back.” The first step? Adopting Donald’s immigration policies. “And I’m an immigrant,” Ivana says. “I have nothing against Mexicans, but if they [come] here — like this 19-year-old, she’s pregnant, she crossed over a wall that’s this high” — Ivana lowers her hand to 4 inches above her wall-to-wall carpeting. “She gives the birth in American hospital, which is for free. The child becomes American automatically.

She brings the whole family, she doesn’t pay the taxes, she doesn’t have a job, she gets the housing, she gets the food stamps. Who’s paying? You and me. “As long as you come here legally and get a proper job . . . we need immigrants. Who’s going to vacuum our living rooms and clean up after us? Americans don’t like to do that.” Ivana TrumpGetty Images Well, Trumps certainly don’t. Ivana wasn’t always a Trump, though. Born Ivana Zelnícková, she grew up in what was then Czechoslovakia, and began skiing competitively at age 6. She says she was an alternate for the 1972 Czechoslovak Olympic ski team (there are disputes as to the validity of this claim). She was married from 1971 to 1973 to an Austrian skier, Alfred Winklmayr, and lived in Montreal, where she modeled and worked as a ski instructor. In 1976, Ivana was in NYC for a fashion show and went with friends to Maxwell’s Plum, an Upper East Side pickup spot for real-life Mr. Bigs and the women who loved them.

While waiting for a table, she felt a tap on her shoulder. “[There’s] this tall blond guy with blue eyes. He said, ‘I’m Donald Trump and I see you’re looking for a table. I can help you.’ I look at my friends and said, ‘The good news is, we’re going to get a table real fast. The bad news is, this guy is going to be sitting with us.’ ” After the meal, Donald paid the bill on the sly and disappeared. “I said, ‘There’s something strange because I’ve never met a man who didn’t want anything from a woman and paid for it,’ ” Ivana says with a laugh. When she walked outside, there was Donald, in the driver’s seat of his own limousine. “He drove us home and then we started to date,” she says. ‘As long as you come here legally … We need immigrants. Who’s going to vacuum our living rooms and clean up after us?’ - Ivana Trump Donald took Ivana to Aspen, Colo., not knowing her Olympian status. She feigned altitude sickness while Donald, a ski novice, took a lesson.

“Sure enough, 10 minutes later I was on the mountains and looking at him doing full turns, and it was not fun,” says Ivana. “The second day, he was getting good. So he said, ‘Ivana, let’s go ski.’ I asked the instructor to put the ski boots on me like a beginner. Donald was like, ‘OK, darling, you can do it!’ I took off and he got so angry. He said, ‘I will never [ski] again for anybody! Even Ivana!’ So I play for his ego.” After less than a year, the two married, in 1977, and went on to have three children together: Donald Jr., now 38, Ivanka, 34, and Eric, 32. Donald hired his wife to work within his Trump Organization. She was crowned vice president of interior design, eventually becoming president of the Trump’s Castle casino resort, in Atlantic City, and later of the Plaza hotel. “I’d get up at 6 and read newspapers, and then I went to 63rd Street to the helicopter pad and flew to Atlantic City. I could come back 5 or 6 . . .

Then we’d watch ‘Dallas’ and ‘Dynasty.’ ” Ivana says Donald’s faith in her business acumen is proof of his respect for women. “When people ask, I say that behind every successful woman is a man in shock. And it’s true, so I think Donald knew that I could achieve. “He gave me the chance. I came [to America] and I was a poor person. I had a sense of style so he put me in charge of interior design of the Grand Hyatt Hotel. I was seven months pregnant and going up the steps, making sure everything was on the schedule.” “Speaking of America, Donald’s on the phone,” interrupts Dorothy, Ivana’s longtime assistant and her kids’ former nanny. Ivana excuses herself. Donald and Ivana TrumpGetty Images (l); WireImage (2) “I don’t think he’s feminist,” Ivana says upon her return when asked of Donald’s stance. “He loves women. But not a feminist.” (Ivana’s reps called The Post two days after the interview to clarify that Donald was a feminist. Then they called to say he wasn’t. An hour later, they said he was.) It was that love of women that led to the couple’s divorce.

Ivana discovered that her husband was cheating on her with former beauty queen Marla Maples. As Ivana told Barbara Walters in a 1991 “20/20” interview, Maples stopped her at a restaurant in Aspen and told her, “I’m Marla and I love your husband. Do you?” Ivana filed for divorce, claiming in her deposition that Donald raped her after he used her plastic surgeon for a scalp-reduction surgery to remove a bald spot. “Your f – – king doctor has ruined me!” Trump cried, according to the 1993 book “Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump,” before forcing himself on her sexually. Once the book was out, Ivana softened her remarks in a statement: “As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited toward me, was absent. I referred to this as a ‘rape,’ but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.” (From left) Donald Trump Jr., Ivana Trump, Ivanka Trump and Eric TrumpGetty Images Now, she tells The Post, “It was all the lawyers. The negotiations and stuff like that.

I was never abused.” After battling it out in court — and in the tabloids — Ivana walked away with a $14 million cash settlement, the family’s 45-room Greenwich, Conn., mansion, an apartment at Trump Plaza, and use of Donald’s Palm Beach mansion, Mar-a-Lago, every March. “Donald took the divorce as a businessman. And he had to negotiate and he had to win,” says Ivana. “Once the financial part was settled, we’re friendly.” She had custody of the children, but he saw them often. “Once [the children] were the age of 21 and out of the university, I said, ‘Donald, this is the final product, now you deal with it.’ ” She still oversaw the kids’ monthly allowance, though. “Sometimes they’d say, ‘But I have this Arab friend who drives a Ferrari! And is in Armani suits and gets $20,000! And I get $1,500 a month!’ And I said, ‘You know what, the money doesn’t fall from the trees,’ ” says Ivana, who foresees her children running the family business if Donald is in the White House.

As for Donald’s current wife, Ivana thinks Melania will “be OK” as first lady. “She’s going to adapt just fine,” says Ivana, who is friendly with Melania. “She never did anything wrong to me. I wish them all the best.” She can’t say the same for Maples. “[Maples] asked to apologize to me in the Daily Mail in London. They asked if I accepted the apology and I said no. Why should I? She broke my marriage!” Not that Ivana’s too concerned. She’s plenty busy juggling her properties in Saint-Tropez, London, Miami and New York, as well as her three boyfriends. “If you are a married woman, you usually follow what the man wants to do. I can do whatever what I want,” she says. “I’m not getting married again. But I like companions. The most important for me is honesty, good humor — not necessarily a millionaire. I don’t need [money]. I prefer to be a baby sitter than a nursemaid.

I don’t want to worry about bad knees and bad back.” Donald and Ivana TrumpWireImage Plus there’s her bundle of grandchildren — now up to eight, with last week’s addition of Theodore, son of Ivanka and her husband, Jared Kushner. The grandchildren call her “Ivana-ma or Glam-ma,” says Ivana, who plans to attend Theodore’s bris today but says she doesn’t know whether Donald will make it. While her ex’s campaign has thrust the family into the solar core of the public spotlight, she says the kids and she — and certainly Donald — are used to the heat. Plus, there are surprise benefits, like Donald’s recent weight loss, aided by his germophobia. “He loves to eat. I told him, ‘Donald, you lost weight!’ because I can tell if he’s 225 or 215,” says Ivana. “And he said, ‘I don’t have time to eat! I shake so many hands!’ ” Speaking of hands — and other body parts — Ivana says Donald does just fine in that department.

“If there was a problem there, Donald would not have five kids.” Share this: From Ivana, More Trump Immigration Foolishness | The Huffington Post From Ivana, More Trump Immigration Foolishness 04/04/2016 10:58 pm ET | Updated Apr 04, 2016 190 Raul A. Reyes Attorney; NBCNews.com Contributor, CNN Opinion columnist Astrid Stawiarz via Getty Images But what does Ivana think? In response to that question, likely asked by no one, the former wife of Donald Trump has weighed in on her ex-husband, why he will be good for the country, and how she advises him on his 2016 campaign. In an interview with the New York Post on Sunday, Ivana Trump revealed that she has mended fences with Trump and that she is on board with his candidacy -- including his proposed immigration policies. Ivana Trump, who was born in Czechoslovakia, has a fairly narrow view of her fellow immigrants. "As long as you come here legally and get a proper job... we need immigrants," she said. "Who's going to vacuum our living rooms and clean up after us?

Americans don't like to do that." Allowing that the idea of vacuuming her own living room or cleaning up after herself does not seem to have entered into her mind, Ms. Trump's comments reveal a fundamental ignorance about the lives of immigrants as well as American workers. In most states, housekeeper is not actually the most common profession for immigrants. According to an analysis of U.S. Census data by Business Insider, a majority of housekeepers and maids are American-born. The most common job held by immigrants in Donald Trump's home state of New York, for example, is home health care aide. How sad that a woman who describes herself as the "perfect example of professionalism, motherhood, and ambition" can only see immigrants as low-wage, menial workers. Immigrants, both legal and undocumented, perform critical tasks throughout society, from nurturing our children to starting small businesses to caring for our seniors. Forty percent of Fortune 500 countries were started by immigrants or their children. So not all immigrants are consigned to vacuuming Mrs. Trump's living room. Ivana Trump is also wrong to assume that American workers do not want to work as housekeepers or in domestic positions.

For proof, she need look no further than Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida, where her former husband has repeatedly hired foreign workers over hundred of Americans. Since 2010, nearly 300 United States residents have applied or been referred for jobs as waiters, waitresses, cooks and housekeepers at Mar-a-Lago, reported the New York Times. But federal records show that only 17 have been hired; the rest of the jobs went to workers from Romania and other countries. Ms. Trump seems to believe that undocumented immigrants are a drag on the economy. "I have nothing against Mexicans," she stated, before unloading a trove of inaccurate information about an imaginary pregnant, undocumented immigrant. "She gives the birth in American hospital, which is for free. The child becomes American automatically," Trump said. "She brings the whole family, she doesn't pay the taxes, she doesn't have a job, she gets the housing, she gets the food stamps. Who's paying? You and me." Not exactly. Having a child in the U.S. is no protection from deportation for an undocumented immigrant.

In 2013, Immigration and Customs Enforcement deported over 72,000 undocumented parents of U.S.-born children. Contrary to what Ms. Trump believes, undocumented immigrants are not eligible for food stamps, "Obamacare," or other social service programs. Undocumented workers, in fact, do pay taxes at the federal, state, and local level. Undocumented workers pay an estimated net $12 billion annually into the Social Security Fund (money they will not benefit from later in life). According to the nonpartisan Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, undocumented workers have collectively paid $11.64 billion annually in state and local taxes. Ivana Trump's website states that she is the "ultimate symbol of strength, glamour, and worldliness." Though these claims may be debatable, it is safe to say that Ms. Trump is no immigration expert. She is a private person who is thankfully not running for office. Yet if she expects to avoid public criticism, then she should not be giving "exclusive" interviews to newspaper tabloids on issues whose nuances clearly escape her.

If she truly cares about our illegal immigration problem, she might consider that Trump Tower -- where she once lived -- was allegedly built in part by undocumented Polish workers. Or that the Washington Post has reported that undocumented workers are currently building a Trump hotel in D.C. These would be more productive endeavors than scapegoating immigrants and promoting offensive, xenophobic falsehoods. Ivana Trump's demeaning comments about immigrants reflect only her shallow and uninformed views. The last thing this country needs is another Trump advising us on immigration. Follow Raul A. Reyes on Twitter: Ivana Trump Biography | Movies.com <img src= class="spriteIcons arrowGreen" /> <a href= at Home</a> Ivana Trump Biography Awards Socialite Ivana Trump initially gained national recognition as the first wife of billionaire [[Performer~P71941~Donald Trump~donaldtrump]], 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 [[Performer~P71941~Donald Trump~donaldtrump]] in 1976. The two married within a year and had three children: [[Performer~P355841~Ivanka Trump~ivankatrump]], Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump. As Mrs. Trump, Ivana worked for many years as vice president of interior design for the Trump Organization. Following their much-publicized and ballyhooed divorce (an event that occupied an inordinate number of tabloid pages and headlines), she established two of her own companies, Ivana, Inc.

and Ivana Haute Couture; graced numerous print advertisements for a plethora of brands; and significantly (like her ex-husband) moved into work as on-camera talent, as the subject of her own Lifetime network biography special, [[Feature~V336448~Intimate Portrait: Ivana Trump~intimateportrait:ivanatrump]] (2001) and the host of her own reality television special, [[Feature~V350864~Ivana Young Man~ivanayoungman]] on the Oxygen Channel. The program traveled behind the scenes to witness Trump guiding an affluent young socialite into marriage with the proper suitor. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi Advertisement Donald Trump's immigrant wives - CNNPolitics.com Donald Trump's immigrant wives By Chris Frates , CNN Updated 9:50 PM ET, Mon August 24, 2015 Chat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.

JUST WATCHED Donald Trump's wife, Melania, is Slovenian born His first wife, Ivana, was born in Czechoslovakia Washington (CNN) It's more than a little ironic that a guy as hardline on immigration as Donald Trump has been surrounded by immigrants his entire life, starting from the very beginning. "My mother was born in Scotland, in the Hebrides, in Stornoway, so that's serious Scotland. And she was a great woman," Trump said in a 2010 documentary. "Whenever anything was on about, ceremonial about the Queen she could sit at the television and just watch it. She had great respect for the Queen and for everything (she) represents" In 1930, an 18-year-old Mary MacLeod sailed for America from Glasgow on the S.S. Transylvania, according to a copy of the ship's passenger list on Ancestry.com. MacLeod arrived in New York and married Fred Trump, the son of German immigrants himself. "My grandfather Frederick Trump came to the United States in 1885. He joined the great gold rush and instead of gold he decided to open up some hotels in Alaska. He did fantastically well.

He loved this country, likewise my father and now me," Trump said in a taped message for a German-American pride parade a few years ago. RELATED: Trump to Bush: Illegal immigration not about 'love' Read More But on the campaign trail, Trump sounds more like a nativist than the son and grandson of immigrants. Trump told a meeting of conservative activists last year that the nation's 11 million undocumented immigrants would never vote Republican. "You'd better be smart and you'd better be tough," Trump said. "They're taking your jobs, and you'd better be careful." It's tough rhetoric that comes with a twist. Trump's current wife is an immigrant herself. Melania Trump moved to New York about 20 years ago. The Slovenian born model now has her own jewelry and caviar-cream skincare lines. She married Trump in 2005 in a fairytale wedding that included a wedding gown reported to cost $100,000. And the next year, she became a citizen -- a decade after arriving in America. "She went through a long process to become a citizen. It was very tough," Trump told CNN recently, adding that Melania agrees with his immigration position.

"When she got it, she was very proud of it. She came from Europe, and she was very, very proud of it. And she thinks it's a beautiful process when it works." And of course, Trump's first wife, Ivana, was an immigrant too. Born in Czechoslovakia, she married an Austrian ski instructor in order to get a foreign passport to leave the communist country, her divorce lawyer has said. A few years later, she "went to my aunt and uncle in Canada," she has said. She and Trump married in 1977, but she didn't become an American citizen for another 11 years. Photos: Donald Trump's rise President-elect Donald Trump has been in the spotlight for years. From developing real estate and producing and starring in TV shows, he became a celebrity long before winning the White House. Hide Caption 1 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump at age 4. He was born in 1946 to Fred and Mary Trump in New York City. His father was a real estate developer. Hide Caption Trump, left, in a family photo. He was the second-youngest of five children.

Hide Caption 3 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump, center, stands at attention during his senior year at the New York Military Academy in 1964. Hide Caption 4 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump, center, wears a baseball uniform at the New York Military Academy in 1964. After he graduated from the boarding school, he went to college. He started at Fordham University before transferring and later graduating from the Wharton School, the University of Pennsylvania's business school. Hide Caption 5 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump stands with Alfred Eisenpreis, New York's economic development administrator, in 1976 while they look at a sketch of a new 1,400-room renovation project of the Commodore Hotel. After graduating college in 1968, Trump worked with his father on developments in Queens and Brooklyn before purchasing or building multiple properties in New York and Atlantic City, New Jersey. Those properties included Trump Tower in New York and Trump Plaza and multiple casinos in Atlantic City.

Hide Caption 6 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump attends an event to mark the start of construction of the New York Convention Center in 1979. Hide Caption Trump attends the opening of his new Atlantic City casino, the Taj Mahal, in 1989. Hide Caption 13 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump signs his second book, "Trump: Surviving at the Top," in 1990. Trump has published at least 16 other books, including "The Art of the Deal" and "The America We Deserve." Hide Caption 14 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump and singer Michael Jackson pose for a photo before traveling to visit Ryan White, a young child with AIDS, in 1990. Hide Caption 15 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump dips his second wife, Marla Maples, after the couple married in a private ceremony in New York in December 1993. The couple divorced in 1999 and had one daughter together, Tiffany. Hide Caption Trump putts a golf ball in his New York office in 1998.

Hide Caption 17 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise An advertisement for the television show "The Apprentice" hangs at Trump Tower in 2004. The show launched in January of that year. In January 2008, the show returned as "Celebrity Apprentice." Hide Caption 18 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise A 12-inch talking Trump doll is on display at a toy store in New York in September 2004. Hide Caption 19 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump attends a news conference in 2005 that announced the establishment of Trump University. From 2005 until it closed in 2010, Trump University had about 10,000 people sign up for a program that promised success in real estate. Three separate lawsuits -- two class-action suits filed in California and one filed by New York's attorney general -- argued that the program was mired in fraud and deception. Trump's camp rejected the suits' claims as "baseless." And Trump has charged that the New York case against him is politically motivated.

Hide Caption 20 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump attends the U.S. Open tennis tournament with his third wife, Melania Knauss-Trump, and their son, Barron, in 2006. Trump and Knauss married in 2005. Hide Caption 21 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump wrestles with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin at WrestleMania in 2007. Trump has close ties with the WWE and its CEO, Vince McMahon. Hide Caption 22 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise For "The Apprentice," Trump was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in January 2007. Hide Caption 23 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump appears on the set of "The Celebrity Apprentice" with two of his children -- Donald Jr. and Ivanka -- in 2009. Hide Caption 24 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump poses with Miss Universe contestants in 2011. Trump had been executive producer of the Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA pageants since 1996.

Hide Caption The Trump family poses for a photo in New York in April. Hide Caption 31 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump speaks during a campaign event in Evansville, Indiana, on April 28. After Trump won the Indiana primary, his last two competitors dropped out of the GOP race. Hide Caption 32 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump delivers a speech at the Republican National Convention in July, accepting the party's nomination for President. "I have had a truly great life in business," he said. "But now, my sole and exclusive mission is to go to work for our country -- to go to work for you. It's time to deliver a victory for the American people." Hide Caption 33 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump faces Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton in the first presidential debate, which took place in Hempstead, New York, in September. Hide Caption 34 of 36 Photos: Donald Trump's rise Trump apologizes in a video, posted to his Twitter account in October, for vulgar and sexually aggressive remarks he made a decade ago regarding women.

"I said it, I was wrong and I apologize," Trump said, referring to lewd comments he made during a previously unaired taping of "Access Hollywood." Multiple Republican leaders rescinded their endorsements of Trump after the footage was released. Hide Caption Ivana Trump Speaks Out About Donald in New Interview Pinterest Cliff Lipson/Retna Ltd USA Ivana Trump is speaking out about her ex-husband Donald Trump ‘s campaign for the White House in a revealing new interview with the New York Post . Ivana, who was married to the 69-year-old from 1977 to 1992, and shares three of his five children , publicly – and privately – supports the GOP frontrunner, and helps advise him on policy, she claims. “We speak before and after the appearances and he asks me what I thought,” Ivana, 67, sais. Likely, her support comes from past experience: she said that Trump considered a presidential run decades ago. “Probably five years before our divorce, Reagan or somebody brought him a letter and said, ‘You should run for president,’ ” Ivana told the Post. “So he was thinking about it.

But then… there was the divorce, there was the scandal, and American women loved me and hated him. So there was no way that he would go into [politics] at that point. But he was always tooling around with the idea.” Trump and Ivana split after his affair with eventual second wife Marla Maples , with whom he fathered daughter Tiffany Trump . Donald and Ivana Trump Ron Galella/WireImage And that large brood should be proof that the Donald has no issues down there , Ivana said in reference to the billionaire businessman’s previous remarks about his manhood during a debate. “If there was a problem there, Donald would not have five kids,” Ivana said. Getting serious, Ivana also issued her take on the potential world leader’s policies, specifically, immigration. Ivana, a Czech Republic native, said that Americans have to embrace Donald’s plan to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico. “I have nothing against Mexicans, but if they [come] here – like this 19-year-old, she’s pregnant, she crossed over a wall that’s this high,” Ivana said, displaying what looked like four-inches. “She gives the birth in American hospital, which is for free.

The child becomes American automatically. She brings the whole family, she doesn’t pay the taxes, she doesn’t have a job, she gets the housing, she gets the food stamps. Who’s paying? You and me.” Donald and Ivana Trump Ron Galella/WireImage She continued, “As long as you come here legally and get a proper job… we need immigrants. Who’s going to vacuum our living rooms and clean up after us? Americans don’t like to do that.” VIDEO: Clint Black Has an Idea of What Should Happen Every Week If Donald Trump Makes It into the Oval Office Ivana also touched on Trump’s controversial attitude toward women , noting that she doesn’t think “he’s a feminist.” “He loves women. But not a feminist,” she said. The Post noted that Ivana’s rep changed their stance on Donald’s feminism several times, ultimately saying that he is a feminist. Finally, the one-time accessories designer issued her opinion on Donald’s current wife Melania ‘s capability to be the First Lady, noting that the former model will “do OK.” “She’s going to adapt just fine,” Ivana said. “She never did anything wrong to me.

I wish them all the best.” (Melania and Donald met after he had divorced Maples and he told PEOPLE in September that she initially refused to give him her number.) When asked about potentially being a First Lady, the Slovenian-born model previously said she would “be different” from previous first ladies. The fact that Ivana and Donald have apparently remained friendly following a contentious divorce battle might speak to what the presidential hopeful told PEOPLE in our current cover story. “I’m a much nicer person than people would think, to see me from the outside,” he said. Show Full Article Ivana Trump - Microsoft Store Ivana Trump Ivana Trump Actor 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. The two married within a year and had three children: Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr., and Eric Trump. As Mrs. Trump, Ivana worked for many years as vice president of interior design for the Trump Organization. Following their much-publicized and ballyhooed divorce (an event that occupied an inordinate number of tabloid pages and headlines), she established two of her own companies, Ivana, Inc. and Ivana Haute Couture; graced numerous print advertisements for a plethora of brands; and significantly (like her ex-husband) moved into work as on-camera talent, as the subject of her own Lifetime network biography special, Intimate Portrait: Ivana Trump (2001) and the host of her own reality television special, Ivana Young Man on the Oxygen Channel.

The program traveled behind the scenes to witness Trump guiding an affluent young socialite into marriage with the proper suitor.

Question: In which country was Ivana Trump born and brought up?
Answer: Czechoslovakia