She was a competitive skier, fashion model, socialite, hard-driving businesswoman and author.
Ivana Trump, who died on Thursday at the age of 73, was a competitive skier, glamorous model and hard-driving businesswoman who became one half of New York City's ultimate power couple in the 1980s through her marriage to an up-and-comer she knew simply as "The Donald".
Born Ivana Marie Zelnickova in 1949 in what was then communist Czechoslovakia, she grew up in the small city of Zlin.She began skiing at age four and would later join the junior national ski team. Describing him in a later memoir as "smart and funny - an all-American good guy", she married him the following year.
It was she who picked out the pink marble that lines the floors and walls of Trump Tower, and - overruling the building's architects - had a 60ft waterfall installed in its atrium. During their acrimonious 1990 divorce proceedings, Ms Trump accused her husband of rape and physical abuse - although she would later recant those claims.
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