By: Angela Li
Ivana Trump was only 73 years old when she met her demise in her apartment in Manhattan, New York. She was reportedly found lying down at the bottom of a staircase and pronounced dead on Thursday, July 14, 2022. The cause of her death was ruled an accident as a result of suffering blunt injuries on her torso, said New York City’s Office of the Chief Medical Examiner on Friday, one day after her death. The official added the death is not suspicious.
US health officials consider falls to be the leading cause of injury-related death for people who are 65 years of age or older. About 64 out of 100,000 elderly people die as a result of accidental falls, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Ivana Trump, who was born in what was then Czechoslovakia, married the former president in 1977.
They divorced 15 years later in 1992. Ivana also had Trump’s three oldest children Ivanka, Donald Jr., and Eric. The cause of divorce was caused by Donald Trump’s affair with a woman named Marla Maples, who would later become Trump’s second wife.
Ivanka Trump remembered her mother as “brilliant, charming, passionate and wickedly funny.” “She lived life to the fullest — never forgoing an opportunity to laugh and dance,” Ivanka Trump said on Twitter while sharing a childhood photo of herself with her mother. “I will miss her forever and will keep her memory alive in our hearts always.”
Even Donald Trump shared his condolences, spreading news of her tragic death through his account on social media. “I am very saddened to inform all of those that loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York City,” the former president said in a post on his social media platform Truth Social.
Even though Ivana Trump has died, her legacy and independence will always remain in people’s hearts.
Citations
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/15/ivana-trump-donald-trump-wife-death-cause