"A really unhappy day, however on the identical time a celebration of an exquisite and delightful life," Donald Trump wrote on his social media platform, Reality Social.
Ivana Trump, the Eighties type icon and businesswoman who helped Donald Trump construct the empire that put him on a street towards the White Home, lived a “lovely life,” the previous president recalled as family members paid ultimate respects to her Wednesday.
The ex-president joined all his kids, an array of different family members and buddies at a Manhattan church for Ivana Trump’s funeral Mass.
“A really unhappy day, however on the identical time a celebration of an exquisite and delightful life,” he wrote on his social media platform, Reality Social, earlier than he, former first girl 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 one in every of her babies, 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 buddies 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. Designer Dennis Basso, a longtime pal of Ivana Trump’s, was additionally among the many mourners.
The Mass was “a chic, great send-off for Ivana Trump,” longtime pal R. Couri Hay stated as he emerged.
Trump’s household introduced Thursday that the 73-year-old had died at her Manhattan house. Authorities stated the demise was an accident, with blunt affect 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 Eighties, they had been an influence couple, and he or she grew to become 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 one in every of his Atlantic Metropolis casinos and choosing out a number of the design components 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 stated they spoke frequently.