The fall caused “blunt force trauma to her chest,” an autopsy revealed Friday, the New York Post reports. It was 73. Trump was found dead Thursday at the foot of the stairs in her Manhattan home. The former president confirmed the death, writing on Truth Social, “It is with great sadness that I inform all those who loved her, of which there are many, that Ivana Trump has passed away at her home in New York.” Trump described his ex-wife as “a wonderful, beautiful and amazing woman, who lived a wonderful and inspiring life.” Mrs Trump’s children added in a statement of their own that “our mother was an incredible woman – a force in business, a world-class athlete, a radiant beauty and a caring mother and friend” who “left communism and embraced this country”. . Mrs. Trump was born Ivana Zelníčková in what was then Czechoslovakia, in the factory town of Zlin. There, she was taught to ski by her father Milos and went on to become a talented member of the country’s national youth ski team, although she was overlooked for the 1972 Winter Olympics. Her first marriage was in 1971 to Austrian skier Alfred Winklmayr, and this union allowed her to leave communist Czechoslovakia for Canada, where she taught English in Toronto. Mrs Trump met Donald Trump in New York in 1976 and the two became regulars on the city’s social scene and in the society pages after their 1977 wedding. The couple’s relationship eventually became tabloid fodder amid a controversial divorce and the revelation that Trump had an affair with Marla Maples, his eventual second wife. Ivana Trump was the mother of Donald Trump’s three oldest children: Donald Trump, Jr. Ivanka? and Eric. She said she and the former president stayed in touch over the years and described speaking with him regularly as he campaigned for the presidency and then held the White House.
