Ivana Trump born February 20, 1949 is a former Olympic athlete, socialite, and fashion model noted for her marriage to mogul Donald Trump.
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Ivana was born to Milos and Maria in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia, now Zlín, Czech Republic. From a very young age, her father nurtured and encouraged her skiing talent. In 1972, Ivana Zelníčková was selected as an alternate on the 1972 Czechoslovak Olympic Ski Team which allowed her several opportunities to travel outside the Communist Bloc. A year earlier, she married Austrian skier, Alfred Winklmayr, in order to obtain a foreign passport so that Communist leaders would not deem her a defector.
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In the early 1970s she earned a master's degree in physical education from Charles University of Prague. In 1975 she left Czechoslovakia for Canada to be with a childhood friend, George Syrovatka, who owned a ski boutique there. For the following two years she lived in Montreal and worked as a model for some of Canada's top fur companies. In 1976 she divorced Winklmayr, left Syrovatka and moved to New York to promote the Montreal Olympics. It was in New York that she met Donald J. Trump, son of prominent real estate developer Fred Trump.
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Soon after her divorce from Donald Trump, Ivana signed on with the William Morris Agency and developed lines of clothing, fashion jewelry and beauty products that have been successfully sold through television shopping channels. She has also written several bestselling books including the novels For Love Alone Lucy Wilkins and Free to Love and the self-help book The Best is Yet to Come: Coping with Divorce and Enjoying Life Again. In 2001, Trump penned an advice column for Divorce Magazine. She played a cameo role in the Hollywood film The First Wives Club with the memorable line: "Remember girls: don't get mad, get everything."
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- Trump is presently involved in a trademark dispute with Donald regarding the use of her name for use with real estate services.
- Trump recently sued a Finnish fashion company, accusing it of selling women's clothing that incorporates her name without permission.
- Trump was the host of Oxygen Network's reality-dating series Ivana Young Man in 2006.
- Trump's website, features her "Ivana Haute Couture" perfume and cosmetics lines as well as her line of cameo jewelry, designed in conjunction with Italian cameo sculpting firm M+M Scognamiglio.
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Trump took part in Celebrity Big Brother in January 2010. She entered on January 9, and finished seventh on January 27, two days before the final. She is a guest on the island in Italian reality show L'isola dei famosi, a kind of Celebrity Survivor, in March 2010.
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