- Ivana Trump’s Upper East Side home Has an asking price at $26.5 Million.
- The house was purchased by her in 1992, when she also divorced Donald Trump.
- The interior represents a bygone era in Donald Trump’s celebrity, and his favorite color: gold.
It’s 1992. Ivana Trump finally ends her turbulent, very public divorce from Donald Trump. It follows two years worth of finger-pointing and accusations about “fraudulent prenuptial arrangements” and slander.
The newly divorcée goes on a press run, speaking to Barbara Walters and Oprah Winfrey about her split. She publishes “For Love Alone,” a novel about her divorce. Donald Trump’s lawyers argue that it is a thinly disguised account of their relationship. It also violates a gag order which prohibits her from discussing their marriage.
Following this messy divorce, there was a large settlement Valued at approximately $25 MillionIvana Trump makes the decision to buy a new home for almost $2.5 million. She bought an 8,725-square foot townhouse in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.
The home is located in Lenox Hill. was just placed on the marketThe asking price for the property was $26.5 million, just a few months following Ivana’s suicide earlier in July.
Eric Trump, Eric’s son, said “She was so happy there.” The Wall Street Journal. “It was the only possession she could ever get rid of.”
Everything about this home, from the French Neoclassical facade to its gold fabric ceiling to the French neoclassical interior, is reminiscent of the couple’s glory years in the 1980s.
Before he was president, On Tuesday, he announced his third White House runDonald Trump was transforming into his new identity as a real estate tycoon, celebrity businessman. In the 80s, he began to fill the pages of tabloid papers and gossip columns and graced the front cover of TIME magazine in 1989 — all of which gave people an early taste of Trump’s bombastic personality that persisted throughout his presidency.
Trump’s famous memoir “The Art of the Deal” was published in 1987. It promoted the idea of a man of smart entrepreneurship.
Ivana Trump also enjoyed the benefits of auxiliary fame when she was married with Donald Trump. In One account at Vanity FairIvana got so much attention that she began giving out press kits with positive clips to interviewers.
Attached to this success — or at least the image of success — was the couple’s show of material wealth, in particular their fixation on gold.
It’s a popular motif on everything stamped Trump, starting with the HotelsTo the Donald Trump’s bathroom sinks.
Ivana Trump’s New York City residence, which public records indicate that she bought through an entity in the year of her divorce, is also rich with gold.
Inside, you will find gold curtains, moldings and chandeliers. The ceiling of one room is covered in gold fabric.
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“Ivana has always represented the Trump brand,” Jia Tolentino of The New Yorker wrote, in her review for the 2017 Czech-American memoir, “Raising Trump.”“She wants to appear dominant, invulnerable and new-money deluxe in the book.”
The home has five bedrooms and five bathrooms.
The house is decorated in leopard print, Chinese paintings, and in one room, pink marmalade. Ivana Trump called it an “infinite closet”.
She wrote that she called it Indochine because it ends on a continent.
Her ex-husband shared Ivana’s love for gold in the house as well.
Donald Trump’s New York apartment has gold furnishings and embellishments. according to House & Garden magazine.
The ex-couple’s love for gold has endured for many years after their separation.
During the Republican Party’s 2016 nominating conventionTrump was flanked with gold columns and gold staircases leading to a golden-outlined lectern. His Mar-a-Lago resortTrump’s 2024 campaign announcement was made in the same spot, which is also decorated with gold.
Ivana Trump was killed in her hometown on July 14. Her funeral was held a about week later at St. Vincent Ferrer Church in the Upper East Side, where pallbearers carried out her coffin — a gold-hued casket.
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Eric Trump spoke about Ivana’s fierce nature, both as a mother and as an individual in his remembrance speech.
He stated, “She ruled the trio of us with an Iron fist, but also a Heart of Gold.”
