Martin Pengelly “Ivana Trump, first wife of Donald Trump, dies aged 73” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/14/ivana-trump-dies-donald-trump-first-wife
ドナルド・トランプの最初の妻だったイヴァナ・トランプさんが紐育の自宅で死去した。享年73歳。上掲の記事は死因について言及していない。
彼女はチェコスロヴァキアに生まれ、スキー選手からモデルに転じ、1977年にドナルド・トランプと結婚した。ドナルド・ジュニア、イヴァンカ、エリックという３人の子どもを生むとともに、ドナルドのビジネス・パートナーとしても活躍した。しかし、ドナルドの不倫のために1992年に離婚した。
この離婚は、それから20年以上経ってから、ドナルド・トランプ周辺と米国社会に波乱を起こすことになった；
A 1993 biography, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J Trump, contained details from a sworn divorce deposition in which Ivana Trump said her husband raped her.Donald Trump denied the allegation. Ivana said she had not meant “rape” in “a literal or criminal sense” but also said: “As a woman, I felt violated.”
The story resurfaced when Trump ran for the presidency in 2015. Michael Cohen, his then lawyer and fixer, denied the story, telling the Daily Beast that Trump “never raped anybody” and claiming, inaccurately under New York state law, “you can’t rape your spouse”.
Cohen later apologised for that remark. He also threatened the Beast with legal action, which did not ensue.
Trump’s first marriage came to haunt his presidency in other ways. According to a 1990 interview with Vanity Fair, much-discussed while Trump was in power, Ivana told her lawyer her husband kept a book of Adolf Hitler’s speeches by his bed.