Topline
The daughter who long stood by her father's side amid his scandal-filled presidency has largely kept a low profile since his term ended with a violent insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, but Ivanka Trump was on Wednesday pulled back into her father’s orbit as she walked into a New York City courthouse to testify in his business fraud trial—one of the few times she’s been seen in public since the start of 2021.
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Key Facts
The social and professional futures of Ivanka Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, were the talk of political commentators and society reporters as the Trump presidency ended in 2021 and the couple was left with damaged reputations and proximity to scandal.
Despite distancing herself from the Trump political machine by announcing she wouldn’t rejoin the 2024 campaign, Ivanka has largely been shunned by her former socialite friends, the New York Times reported, and has not been re-invited to high-society events like the Met Gala or Vanity Fair's Tribeca Film Festival party since her father left the White House.
The couple did not return to New York at the end of the Trump administration and instead moved to a $30 million home in a gated community near Miami dubbed "billionaire bunker," where they live near Tom Brady, Julio Iglesias and billionaires Carl Icahn and Norman Braman.
Representatives for Ivanka Trump did not immediately respond to Forbes’ request for comment Wednesday.
Life in what the Times called “no man’s land” has left Ivanka largely out of the public eye, but she has made rare appearances in the last few years:
Ivanka Trump is seen at Funke for Kim Kardashian birthday party on October 20, 2023 in Los Angeles.
Where Is Ivanka Trump?
November 8, 2023: Ivanka Trump arrived at the New York Supreme Court in Manhattan just before 8:30 a.m. Wednesday, where some members of a waiting crowd shouted "crime family" as she prepared to testify in the ongoing civil trial against her father.
October 20, 2023: The oldest Trump daughter attended Kim Kardashian's 43rd birthday party in Beverly Hills alongside Hailey Bieber, Kimora Lee Simmons and Lauren Sanchez, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's fiancée.
July 19, 2023: Ivanka and Kushner attended a private screening of the Sound of Freedom movie hosted by Donald Trump, according to Vanity Fair.
June 14, 2023: Ivanka Trump was spotted celebrating her father's 77th birthday with a dinner in Bedminster, New Jersey.
June 10, 2023: The couple was spotted heading to a Miami synagogue the day after Donald Trump's classified documents indictment was unsealed by the Department of Justice.
June 4, 2023: Ivanka Trump was seen talking to Prince William at Crown Prince Hussein's wedding to Rajwa Alseif in Jordan this summer, which was also attended by Kushner, Kate Middleton, First Lady Jill Biden and Ashley Biden.
May 6, 2023: Ivanka and Kushner attended an American Express event in Miami.
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November 24, 2022: The couple attended the FIFA World Cup Group G match between Brazil and Serbia in Qatar.
November 17, 2022: Trump was seen wakeboarding in Miami two days after skipping her father's 2024 campaign announcement at Mar-a-Lago.
November 12, 2022: Ivanka attended her sister Tiffany Trump's wedding to businessman Michael Boulos.
August 8, 2022: The couple was photographed having dinner at Bleu Duck Kitchen in Rochester, Minnesota, after what the Daily Mail reported as a medical checkup for Kushner at the Mayo Clinic.
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July 20, 2022: The Trump family attended the funeral of Ivana Trump, Ivanka's mother, in New York City.
May 5, 2022: Ivanka and Kushner attended an American Express event at Carbone in Miami.
November 30, 2021: Trump and Kushner made their first post-administration red carpet appearance at the Louis Vuitton fashion show, where they had front-row seats alongside Kim Kardashian, Pharrell Williams and other stars.
October 11, 2021: Ivanka and Kushner were among the guests at the launch of the Friedman Center for Peace through Strength at the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem.
October 3, 2021: Trump and Kushner were photographed on a PDA-filled trip to a water park in Florida with their three children the same week former press secretary Stephanie Grisham’s tell-all book on the Trump administration, titled I'll Take Your Questions Now, was released.
June 20, 2021: Kushner and Ivanka Trump were seen at the Kiawah Island Beach club chatting with Nikki and Michael Haley.
March 9, 2021: Ivanka Trump was seen for the first time since leaving the White House while volunteering at a food distribution site in Apopka, Florida, alongside the former president's spiritual adviser Pastor Paula White.
Crucial Quote
“There is a myth around that Jared and Ivanka will be rejected socially,” journalist Tina Brown told Town & Country Magazine. “The rich are never rejected — until they go to prison or lose their money.”
Key Background
Ivanka Trump, 42, is the daughter of Donald and Ivana Trump. She married her husband, Kushner, in 2009 and they have three children. Trump was the executive vice president of the Trump Organization before she and her husband became senior advisers to her father's presidential administration. Ivanka served as head of the Office of Economic Initiatives and Entrepreneurship, which was established under her father, and frequently spoke about women's rights and their place in the economy. She led the United States presidential delegation to the PyeongChang Olympics, attended the 2019 G20 Osaka summit, organized a Human Trafficking Summit in 2020 and introduced her father at the 2020 Republican National Convention, where he accepted the party's nomination to run against Joe Biden. She was criticized for retaining ownership of Ivanka-branded fashion gear amid her time in the White House.
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