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Inside Ivana and Donald Trump's Explosive — and Expensive — 1990s Divorce, Dubbed the 'Billion Dollar Blowup'
People Magazine ^ | July 14, 2022 | Aaron Parsley

Posted on 07/14/2022 11:20:42 PM PDT by L.A.Justice

Ivana Trump,who died in her New York City home Thursday at the age of 73, was arguably one of the most famous divorcees in the world, thanks to her messy split in the early 1990s from a flashy real estate tycoon named Donald Trump.

A cameo in the 1996 divorce caper The First Wives Club demonstrated Ivana's status as a champion of women whose marriages have passed the expiration date.

"Don't get mad, get everything," Ivana, playing herself, proudly tells the film's main characters.

(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...


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RIP...Ivana Trump...

I do remember the divorce story...No, I had no idea back then that Mr. Trump will eventually become President...

Should Melania and Marla attend the funeral for Ivana Trump? I am not sure if Marla should attend the funeral...

Cher attended Sonny Bono's funeral...

Maybe some of you have experience dealing with death of an ex-spouse...

1 posted on 07/14/2022 11:20:42 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: L.A.Justice

Who cares? Then again, I never went for the tabloid crap.


2 posted on 07/14/2022 11:22:58 PM PDT by Cobra64 (Common sense isn’t common anymore.)
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To: L.A.Justice

“No, I had no idea back then that Mr. Trump will eventually become President...”

Pat Nixon predicted it in 1987, per a note from RMN to DJT at the time.

In any case, if someone had told me 30 years ago that Roe v. Wade would eventually be overturned, and that Donald Trump would be the president to make that happen, I would have asked that person what drugs they were on.


3 posted on 07/14/2022 11:28:03 PM PDT by irishjuggler
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To: L.A.Justice

BTTT


4 posted on 07/14/2022 11:29:26 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: L.A.Justice

My parents were divorced. When my dad passed his second wife tried to play the grieving grand dame. It was disgusting. My dad passed while talking on the phone with my mom….his first wife

Mom sat with all five children ( adults by then) at his funeral. He was the love of her life. She needed to be able to say good bye. We made sure she could.

The second wife was unhappy but we didn’t give two shakes Family first. My mom’s needs were more important


5 posted on 07/14/2022 11:34:19 PM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the clouds)
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To: L.A.Justice

Cher owed her stage act and early fame to Sonny, who also wrote some of their biggest hit songs (The Beat Goes On, I Got You Babe, Baby Don’t Go, Bang! Bang! and others).

For the same reasons, if Motown’s CEO Berry Gordy dies before Diana Ross, I would expect her to have a front row seat at his service.

I doubt if Marla and Melania attend that service.
One never knows. Maybe Ivana had a friendship with Melania.
We won’t ever know unless Melania or another Trump tells us.


6 posted on 07/14/2022 11:35:45 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: L.A.Justice

Why post this. Gossip sucks.


7 posted on 07/14/2022 11:39:10 PM PDT by exnavy (Grow your faith, and have the courage to use it.)
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To: Nifster
My parents were divorced. When my dad passed his second wife tried to play the grieving grand dame. It was disgusting.

The second wife did not know how to behave properly...

I think Marla should not attend the funeral...It is fair to state that she had a big role in breaking up President Trump's first marriage...

8 posted on 07/14/2022 11:42:43 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: lee martell
Cher owed her stage act and early fame to Sonny, who also wrote some of their biggest hit songs (The Beat Goes On, I Got You Babe, Baby Don’t Go, Bang! Bang! and others).

I watched the funeral of Sonny Bono on my local station...Live...Cher did speak...She sounded very emotional...

I am sure there will be press coverage of Ivana Trump's funeral...There was press coverage of the funeral for Mr. Trump's brother...

9 posted on 07/14/2022 11:50:52 PM PDT by L.A.Justice
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To: L.A.Justice

Why is People Magazine dancing on her grave?


10 posted on 07/15/2022 1:28:25 AM PDT by sauropod (Unbelief has nothing to say. Chance favors the prepared mind.)
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To: L.A.Justice

Daily mail has a photo that is a hoot. They are on a rooftop doing a glamorous pose atop a huge gold casket looking thing drinking champaign with mini American flags. Ivana dressed in a gold ballgown


11 posted on 07/15/2022 2:49:29 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: L.A.Justice

Rather tacky to bring this up now. In poor taste for People Magazine. But I am not surprised.


12 posted on 07/15/2022 3:41:10 AM PDT by Blennos
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“I had no idea back then that Mr. Trump will eventually become President...”

In 1990, I thought he should be President after I read “The Art Of The Deal”. Never dreamed it would happen, though.


13 posted on 07/15/2022 3:42:56 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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“Mom sat with all five children ( adults by then) at his funeral.”

As it should be.


14 posted on 07/15/2022 3:44:35 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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To: Cobra64

Yep
Doesn’t matter if someone is a fastfood worker or a billionaire..a divorce is a divorce..and deeply personal.. and really not aoutsider’s business.


15 posted on 07/15/2022 3:54:01 AM PDT by Leep (Hillary will NEVER be president! 😁)
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To: L.A.Justice

So many wounds and scars before a divorce. Everyone has to do what is right for them, and look to the future. To continue to heal. Not easy.


16 posted on 07/15/2022 4:06:03 AM PDT by PA-RIVER ( )
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I will never understand people who get divorced and say he/she was “the love of my life.” Why divorce then? Sounds like your parents should have stayed married unless there were critical extenuating circumstances.

Having been both a first and second wife, the 2nd wife often gets labeled as “gold digger” etc., by the first family’s adult child(ren).
I got divorced because of extreme physical abuse and alcoholism. And I have always been the provider... not the other way around.

Divorce should be made much harder to attain IMHO. It is almost always a bad idea. And of course marriage should not be entered into frivolously. JMO


17 posted on 07/15/2022 4:12:19 AM PDT by AbolishCSEU (Amount of "child" support paid is inversely proportionate to mother's actual parenting of children)
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To: MayflowerMadam

I called into a radio show during the primaries, before he won. On air, I said the first candidate that declares he will stop all travel of Muslims into the USA will win. A few days later, he did exactly that. This was after three or four Islamic jihad inspired slaughters in the USA. I suspect he or his staff was listening. The radio host laughed at me, “never gonna happen”. Just a few days later, boom, he announced the ban.


18 posted on 07/15/2022 4:13:55 AM PDT by PA-RIVER ( )
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To: AbolishCSEU

All marriages go through difficult times. Some get fractured beyond repair. Too many things are said. The words scar and echo, for years. Healing becomes impossible inside the marriage. People can hurt each other, unintentionally. They have to separate to heal.


19 posted on 07/15/2022 4:22:45 AM PDT by PA-RIVER ( )
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To: sauropod

Because they are part of the propaganda arm of the Democrats. They ran this in another attempt to make DJT look bad. Why else?


20 posted on 07/15/2022 4:28:26 AM PDT by stratboy
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