FFamily members and friends paid their last respects to Ivana Trump, ex-wife of former US President Donald Trump, who died last week at the age of 73.
Donald Trump and his third wife Melania, as well as the three children from Donald and Ivana Trump’s marriage, Donald Junior, Eric and Ivana, and their partners and children, all dressed in dark, gathered in New York on Wednesday at a funeral home on the Upper East Side, as shots showed.
From there, the coffin containing Ivana Trump’s body was taken to a church just a few blocks away, where numerous friends and acquaintances attended the funeral service. Both places had already been cordoned off by the New York police in the morning, numerous journalists and onlookers crowded the barriers in the sunshine and very high temperatures.
Ivana Trump died last week in her home, also on the Upper East Side in Manhattan near Central Park, as a result of an accident, according to coroners. According to media reports, she fell down a flight of stairs.
Born in what is now the Czech Republic, Ivana Trump had worked as an athlete, businesswoman and model, among other things, and was married to Donald Trump between 1977 and 1992.