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Ivana Marie Zelníčková Trump, the former president’s first wife, was born under Communist rule in the former Czechoslovakia to an engineer and a telephone operator. Trump was a skier and fashion model who immigrated to the Americas in the 1970s, first arriving in Canada.
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March 27, 1984
Ivana Trump, then wife of Donald Trump, is introduced at a news conference for the new Harrah's at Trump Plaza in Atlantic City
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Marty Lederhandler/AP
Trump pictured in April 1987.
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AP
July 4, 1988
The Trumps wave to reporters as they board their luxury yacht the Trump Princess in New York.
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MARTY LEDERHANDLER/AP
June 8, 1990
Trump participates in a ceremony at Grand Army Plaza's Pulitzer Fountain in the Brooklyn.
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Marty Lederhandler/AP
Sept. 28, 1990
Trump, left, and Joan Rivers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York for the premiere of “Avalon.”
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Phillip W. Schoultz/AP
Nov. 15, 1990
Trump, president of the Plaza Hotel in New York, accepts the first bottle of Beaujolais Nouveau for 1990 from Jean-Jacques Pignard, mayor of Villefranche, representing the Beaujolais region of France.
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Osamu Honda/AP
Oct. 17, 1991
Trump models clothing designed by Thierry Mugler for the 1992 spring and summer ready-to-wear collection in Paris.
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REMY DE LA MAUVINIERE/AP
April 30, 1993
Ivana and Donald Trump make their way past reporters as they leave court in New York. The couple said “I do” again, but it was to show they understood an agreement that ends the disputes that have kept them in court almost since they divorced in 1991.
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Betsy Herzog/AP
October 1993
Trump with her children Ivanka and Eric beside Riccardo Mazzucchelli.
April 8, 1994
Trump, left, talks with her friend Maty Abascal before the showing of designer Oscar de la Renta's fall 1994 women's wear collection in New York.
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Chrystyna Czajkowsky/AP
Sept. 7, 1997
Trump with her ex-husband, Donald Trump, during the men's singles finals match at the U.S. Open in New York.
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RUSTY KENNEDY/AP
Aug. 4, 2001
Trump and her daughter, Ivanka, arrive for the traditional Red Cross Ball in Monaco.
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Vanina Lucchesi/AFP/Getty Images
March 4, 2000
Trump stands with friend and former team member of the Czech national ski team George Syrovatka at the Jay Peak Ski Area in Jay, Vt.
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Jon-Pierre Lasseigne/AP
May 25, 2006
Trump arrives at amfAR's Cinema Against AIDS 2006 event in France.
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Mario Anzuoni/Reuters
Jan. 26, 2009
Trump arrives for the presentation of Dior's Haute Couture spring-summer 2009 collection, designed by John Galliano, in Paris.
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CHRISTOPHE ENA/AP
Jan. 31, 2009
Trump dances at the Opera Ball in the State Opera House in Prague.
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Michal Dolezal/CTK/AP
May 16, 2009
Trump enters the stage to deliver a speech during the 17th Life Ball in Vienna.
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Joe Klamar/AFP/Getty Images
Sept. 9, 2012
Trump, second from right, attends the Zang Toi Spring 2013 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at Lincoln Center in New York.
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Astrid Stawiarz/Getty Images
Sept. 7, 2007
Ivana at Fashion Week in New York.
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