Relatives and friends paid their last respects to Ivana Trump, ex-wife of former US President Donald Trump, who passed away last week at the age of 73. Former US President Donald Trump and his third wife Melania, as well as Donald and Ivana Trump’s three children — Donald Junior, Eric and Ivana — and their husbands and children gathered at St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church in New York on Wednesday .
The casket containing Ivana Trump’s body was taken from an Upper East Side funeral home, footage showed, to a church just blocks away, where friends and acquaintances gathered for the funeral service.
Both places had already been cordoned off by the New York police in the morning, numerous journalists and onlookers thronged in the sun and at very high temperatures.
Ivana Trump died last week at her home, also on Manhattan’s Upper East Side near Central Park – as a result of an accident, according to forensics. According to media reports, she fell down a flight of stairs.
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Born in what is now the Czech Republic, Ivana Marie Zelnícková had worked as an athlete, businesswoman and model, among other things. In New York she met Donald Trump, whom she married in 1977. She is best known as the first wife of future US President Donald Trump. The former model and then real estate mogul broke through into New York high society in the 1980s before gaining much publicity in the 1990s and Trump married his second wife, Marla Maples.
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