The adult children she had largely raised became appendages for him.
Trump had shared her ex-husband’s hunger for attention, and it wasn’t easy, others said in interviews, when her celebrity faded and his reignited, first with the television show “The Apprentice” and then when he became a successful presidential candidate. And when he ran for president, she was a full-throated supporter. Basso and others said, a businesswoman who played an instrumental role decorating the hotels and residential buildings her former husband had worked on, among them Trump Tower, the Plaza Hotel and the Taj Mahal in Atlantic City. The following day, he said, she arrived at his showroom for an appointment and walked out with an order for seven pieces, along with an order to “send the bill to the Donald.” “She’s standing there in chocolate brown Gucci,” he said, “and she said: ‘I like you. “We all basically let go and let God, and now you are totally in God’s hands.”
“Ivana, we have reached out to you many, many times, but obviously we didn’t reach out far enough,” she said. Trump through the spring and summer of her life, after which followed an autumn and “inevitable winter” of “roses dying” as her former employer’s field of dreams became a “sinking swamp” of “parasites” who had kept her “afloat” with “illicit dreams and schemes.” In her two-minute speech, she alluded to that isolation, talking about how she had been close to Ms. and Eric, was perhaps the most striking speaker. “There was a lot of pain, a lot of sadness,” he said, before declining to elaborate on it.ĭorothy Curry, the former nanny to Ivanka, Donald Jr. Bouwer continued, in a brief interview at the church. Trump would have liked she was an unapologetic proponent of pairing fake jewelry with super-expensive clothing. Trump was living an increasingly solitary life in her final years, according to Marc Bouwer, a designer who dressed her for many years and who was also seated toward the back, wearing a black suit, no shirt and a sparkly costume jewelry necklace that he thought Ms. Trump on the cover of Vanity Fair in 1992, above the headline “Ivana Be a Star.” One of the speakers would later name all the other magazines whose covers she had graced, among them Town & Country and Vogue. Near the lectern was a poster board of Ms. Trump favored Couri Hay, the publicist and gossip columnist and Jeanine Pirro, the right-wing television opinion host. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Dennis Basso, the fashion designer whose high-oomph fur designs Ms. Trump appointed to the board of trustees at the John F. “Mom, I love you today, every day.”īut they did include Paolo Zampolli, the former modeling agent whom Mr. “Now, she’s watching us from above, telling us to dry our eyes, have a good time and dance one more song for her,” Ms. Trump said, her mother had declared that “Ivanka must really love him if she’s willing to give up lobster.”) “It took me years to understand the last one.” (Of her daughter’s conversion to Orthodox Judaism and marriage to Jared Kushner, Ms. “She taught me to study hard, to work hard, to comport myself with dignity and good manners and to never, ever marry a man with a bad back,” Ms. Trump wore a black dress and pearls to her mother’s funeral.) Ivana’s motto, her daughter said, was “flaunt them while you’ve got them.” “My miniskirts weren’t mini enough,” she said. (“She had stayed till 4”) and chided her for wearing clothes that were too modest. She was also the sort of mother who teased her daughter for leaving a party in St.-Tropez at 1 a.m. Her mother “hated funerals,” she said, tearing up as she talked about the “trailblazer, admired by men and women alike” for her “grace and her beauty,” but also her business prowess and relentless work ethic. People adored Ivana.”Īs a parent, he said, she “ruled with an iron fist and a heart of gold.”
He added: “She still holds every single sales record. “She had brains, she had beauty, and she had grit,” he said, going on to assert that she had won the “hearts and minds of every single person in the U.S. In a speech, her son Eric, 38, described his mother as the embodiment of the American dream, something like a mix of Joan Rivers and Claudia Schiffer, he said. Her children offered a loving glimpse at her forceful parenting style. Trump, and the two husbands who followed him died before her.) Trump was married briefly then widowed before her marriage to Mr.
Trump and her ex-husband had managed to forge, despite the bitter tabloid divorce. Those eulogizing her also talked about the friendship that Ms. Trump, who died last week at 73 inside her apartment in New York, focused on her indefatigable drive, shaped by growing up in Czechoslovakia behind the Iron Curtain.
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