Former President Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Barron Trump, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump depart St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church in New York after the funeral of Ivana Trump on Wednesday.
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Former President Donald Trump, Melania Trump, Barron Trump, Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump depart St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church in New York after the funeral of Ivana Trump on Wednesday.
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NEW YORK — Ivana Trump, the Nineteen Eighties model icon and businesswoman who helped Donald Trump construct the empire that put him on a highway towards the White Home, lived a “stunning life,” the previous president recalled as family members paid remaining respects to her Wednesday.
The ex-president joined all his kids, an array of different relations and pals at a Manhattan church for Ivana Trump’s funeral Mass.
“A really unhappy day, however on the similar time a celebration of an exquisite and delightful life,” he wrote on his social media platform, Fact Social, earlier than he, former first woman Melania Trump and their son, Barron headed to St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church.
Ivana and Donald Trump’s three kids — Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric — stood with their father and their households because the gold-toned casket was carried from St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church in Manhattan. Eric Trump briefly put an arm round his sister’s shoulders as she held the hand of considered one of her young children, who clutched a pink flower.
Tiffany Trump, the daughter of the previous president and his second spouse, Marla Maples, additionally attended the service, as did household pals together with Jeanine Pirro, co-host of Fox Information’ “The 5,” and Charles Kushner, an actual property developer and the daddy of Ivanka Trump’s husband, Jared Kushner. Clothier Dennis Basso, a longtime good friend of Ivana Trump’s, was additionally among the many mourners.
The Mass was “a chic, great send-off for Ivana Trump,” longtime good friend R. Couri Hay mentioned as he emerged.
Trump’s household introduced Thursday that the 73-year-old had died at her Manhattan house. Authorities mentioned the dying was an accident, with blunt influence accidents to her torso because the trigger.
Ivana and Donald Trump met within the Nineteen Seventies and had been married from 1977 to 1992. Within the Nineteen Eighties, they had been an influence couple, and she or he turned well-known in her personal proper, immediately recognizable together with her blond hair in an updo and her glamorous look.
Ivana Trump additionally took half in her husband’s companies, managing considered one of his Atlantic Metropolis casinos and selecting out a number of the design parts in New York Metropolis’s Trump Tower.
Their very public divorce was ugly, however lately, they had been pleasant. Ivana Trump was an enthusiastic supporter of Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential marketing campaign and mentioned they spoke regularly.
