Ivana Trump explores marriage in new book
A new book from Donald Trump’s first wife pulls back the curtain on a tumultuous period of the president’s life, including the messy divorce that was splashed across New York’s tabloids.
Ivana Trump, who was married to the real estate magnate from 1977 to 1992, writes in “Raising Trump” that she knew her marriage was over soon after a day in December 1989.
“This young blonde woman approached me out of the blue and said ‘I’m Marla and I love your husband. Do you?’ ” writes Ivana Trump. Trump’s affair with Marla Maples spawned the infamous “Best Sex I’ve Ever Had” headline in the New York Post in 1990. After divorcing his first wife, Trump married Maples in 1993.
“Raising Trump” is set to be released Tuesday.
“I can only shake my head at how it insane it was,” Ivana Trump writes. “I couldn’t turn on the television without hearing my name.”
But she and the president have returned to far warmer terms. She writes that they speak about once a week and that she encourages him to keep using Twitter. Her children also contributed passages, and Ivana Trump muses that her former husband may not be the only Trump to call the White House home.
“Maybe in fifteen years, she could run for president?” she writes about her daughter, Ivanka, before musing about her own possible title. “First Lady? Holds no appeal for me personally. First Mother? That could work.”