“There was nothing that she could not achieve, no obstacle that she could not surmount,” he told mourners of his mother. recalled his mother’s tenacity, purportedly the product of her upbringing in Soviet Czechoslovakia, and also the time she beat him with a kitchen utensil after Ivanka blamed him for damaging an expensive chandelier she’d hit with a beach ball. on the Home Shopping Network and QVC” and “still holds every single sales record.”Įlsewhere in the eulogies, Don Jr.
“She had brains, she had beauty, and she had grit,” he said, per the New York Times, claiming that she conquered the “hearts and minds of every single person in the U.S. He had her wedding at his house,” by which Eric meant Mar-a-Lago. The couple divorced in 1992, but “they loved each other,” Eric said, and “they respected each other and they fought for one another in ways that most people could never imagine. You just watch that.” Ivana married Donald in 1977 and went on to become the CEO of Trump’s Castle casino resort (now a Golden Nugget) in Atlantic City and to manage the Plaza hotel. In his remarks, Eric remembered his mother once declaring of his father, “That man will make a great blanking president. 3NrczCn6mv- Daniel D'Addario July 21, 2022 It appears like they displayed Ivana Trump’s 1992 Vanity Fair cover at her funeral, but edited out the headline in the bottom-left corner about Hillary Clinton’s White House ambitions. Based on the eulogies, it seems safe to assume Ivana would’ve wanted it that way. According to Variety critic Daniel D’Addario, whoever prepared the mock-up appeared to have edited out mention of another of the issue’s stories, about Hillary Clinton’s presidential aspirations. (Did you know that in her pre-Trump life, Ivana was a competitive skier?) Underscoring her impact, a blown-up Vanity Fair cover from 1992 - featuring a beehived Ivana in a party dress, beaming alongside the headline “Ivana Be a Star!” - sat at the front of the church. Vincent Ferrer, including her second husband, Donald Trump, and their three children: Ivanka, Eric, and Don Jr.ĭespite the cloud of Congressional hearings hanging over the family - for months, a House committee has been probing Trump’s involvement in the January 6 Capitol insurrection, with Ivanka testifying ( to self-protective effect) in June - the focus remained squarely on Ivana’s influence on fashion, a certain era of New York Society, business, and according to WWD, sports. According to WWD, her funeral brought about 400 people to the Church of St. Ivana died on July 14, reportedly from blunt-impact injuries she sustained in an accidental fall in her Upper East Side townhouse. Many members of the Trump universe descended on Manhattan yesterday for the funeral of the ex-president’s ex-wife Ivana Trump (née Zelníčková). The Trumps outside Ivana’s funeral in Manhattan