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Ivanka Trump
Photo portrait of Ivanka Trump
Trump at Seeds of Peace in 2009
Born
Ivanka Marie Trump

(1981-10-30) October 30, 1981 (age 42)
Manhattan, New York, United States
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Pennsylvania (B.S. Economics)
Occupation(s)Businesswoman, author, model[1]
Years active1997–present
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
TitleExecutive Vice-President
The Trump Organization
Political partyIndependent[2]
Spouse
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(m. 2009)​
Children3
Parents
Relatives
Websitewww.ivankatrump.com

Ivanka Marie Trump (/iˈvɑːŋkə/, born October 30, 1981) is an American businesswoman and former fashion model. She is the daughter of former model Ivana Trump and real estate developer Donald Trump.[1] She is the Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at her father's company, the Trump Organization, where her work is focused on the company's real estate and hotel management initiatives.[3]

Early life

Ivanka Trump was born in Manhattan, New York City, New York, to American business magnate Donald Trump and his first wife, Ivana (née Zelníčková), an athlete, model and socialite originally from Czechoslovakia. The name Ivanka is a diminutive form of Ivana. Trump's parents divorced in 1991, when she was nine years old. She has two brothers, Donald Jr. and Eric; a half sister, Tiffany; and a half brother, Barron.

Trump attended the Chapin School in Manhattan until she was 15,[4] when she transferred to Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, where she characterized its "boarding-school life" as like a "prison", while her "friends in New York were having fun".[4]

After graduating from Choate,[5] she attended Georgetown University for two years, then transferred to the Wharton Business School at the University of Pennsylvania, from which she graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in economics in 2004.[4][6][7]

Trump speaks English and French. Unlike her brother Donald Jr., she has only elementary knowledge of her mother's native language, Czech.[8][5][9]

Career

Business

Before joining the family business, Trump briefly worked for Forest City Enterprises.[10] In 2007, she joined forces with Dynamic Diamond Corp., a diamond trading company sightholder, to design and introduce a line of jewelry at the brand's first flagship retail store called Ivanka Trump on Madison Avenue.[11]

Trump is currently Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at the Trump Organization. On the work drive among her and her siblings, she has stated, "I look at my brothers and myself and I’m, like, really proud of the fact that nobody’s ... a drug addict, nobody’s driving around chasing women, snorting coke."[7] Trump serves on the Board of 100 Women in Hedge Funds, an industry organization that provides support to women professionals in finance.[12]

Trump has her own line of fashion items, including clothes, handbags, shoes, and accessories, which is available in major U.S. department stores.[13] Her brand has been criticized for allegedly copying designs by other designers,[14][15] and by PETA and other animal rights activists for using fur from rabbits.[16][17] In 2016, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recalled "Ivanka Trump"-branded scarves because they did not meet federal flammability standards.[18][19] A 2016 analysis found that most of the fashion line was produced outside the U.S.[20]

Modeling

Ivanka Trump in July 2007

Trump's first cover was a 1997 issue of Seventeen. Since then, she has walked fashion runways for Versace, Marc Bouwer and Thierry Mugler. She has done advertisement campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger and Sassoon Jeans and was featured on the cover of Stuff in August 2006 and again in September 2007. She has been featured on the covers of Forbes, Golf Magazine, Avenue, Elle Mexico and Top Choice Magazine[21] and in the October 2007 issue of Harper's Bazaar.[22] She has also featured many times in Love FMD magazine.[23][24]

She placed Number 83 in the 2007 Maxim Hot 100. She has also placed Number 99 in the Top 99 Women of 2007 and then at 84 in the 2008 edition on AskMen.com. Trump's page in the Fashion Model Directory provides complete professional details of her prior work in that domain.[25]

In 2012, her college alma mater, the Wharton School at Pennsylvania University, awarded her with the Joseph Wharton Young Leadership Award for “early success in her career and…potential for leadership and lasting impact.”[3]

Television appearances

The Apprentice

In 2006, she filled in for Carolyn Kepcher on five episodes of her father's television program The Apprentice 5, first appearing to help judge the Gillette task in week 2.[26] Like Kepcher, Trump visited the site of the tasks and spoke to the teams, asking them pointed questions. She also evaluated contestants in the boardroom, pointing out critical errors and rebutting excuses they offered for losing the tasks. Though initially unsympathetic to the contestants, Trump later said, "Whenever I see their breakdowns, I understand. They go virtually 24 hours a day, and each task takes about three days. Unless they win, they don't get a day off... It's an incredible amount of work..."[22] Trump now collaborates with season 5 winner Sean Yazbeck on his winner's project of choice, Trump SoHo Hotel-Condominium.[27][28]

Trump replaced Carolyn Kepcher as a primary boardroom judge during the sixth season of The Apprentice and its follow-up iteration The Celebrity Apprentice.

Other TV appearances

In 1997, she hosted the Miss Teen USA Pageant, which was partially owned by her father, Donald Trump. In 2003, she was featured in Born Rich, a documentary about the experience of growing up as a child in one of the world's most affluent families. During an April 2006 appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Jay Leno commented that he could hear her father's influence and inflections in her. David Letterman also made a similar comment when she appeared on Late Show with David Letterman on April 24, 2007.

Trump was a featured guest-judge on Project Runway Season 3. She was also at a Milwaukee, Wisconsin, event in April 2007 called the Creating Wealth Summit in which she spoke for about 30 minutes about making money and her latest projects. She has been offered to appear on The Bachelorette, but she declined.[29] On October 25, 2010, Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner, briefly portrayed themselves in Season 4 Episode 6 of Gossip Girl.[30]

Ivanka Trump introduced her father in a speech immediately before his own speech at the 2016 Republican National Convention.[31] The George Harrison song, "Here Comes the Sun" was used as her entrance music. Her speech was well received as portraying her father “in a warmer-than-usual light” [32] Some political commentators, however, felt that the policy positions she espoused were closer to that of Hillary Clinton than her father. After the speech, the George Harrison estate complained about the use of his song as being offensive to their wishes.[33] The next morning, Ivanka's official Twitter account tweeted, "Shop Ivanka's look from her #RNC speech" with a link to a Macy’s page that featured the dress she wore.[34]

Writing

Ivanka Trump wrote a book, The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life ISBN 1439140014, published in October 2009.

Social and political causes

Trump at Seeds of Peace 2009

Ivanka Trump has said of her political views, "Like many of my fellow millennials, I do not consider myself categorically Republican or Democrat."[35] In 2007, Trump donated $1,000 to the presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton.[36] In 2012, Trump endorsed Mitt Romney for president.[37] In 2013, Trump and her husband hosted a fundraiser for Cory Booker. The couple bundled more than $40,000 for Booker's U.S. Senate campaign.[38]

In 2015, Trump publicly endorsed her father's presidential campaign. Trump has been involved with her father's campaign by making public appearances in support of him[39] and has defended him.[40][41] However, she admitted mixed feelings about his presidential ambitions, saying, "As a citizen, I love what he’s doing. As a daughter, it’s obviously more complicated.”[42] In August, Trump's father stated that she was his leading advisor on "women's health and women" and said it was she who propelled him to elaborate on his views of women.[43][44] In January 2016, Trump was featured in a radio ad which aired in the early voting states of Iowa and New Hampshire, Trump in the advertisement praising her father.[45][46] She appeared by his side following the results of early voting states, in particular briefly speaking in South Carolina after being invited by her father to speak, thanking the state in doing so.[47][48] She was not able to vote for her father in the New York primary because she missed the voter registration deadline. Independents are not allowed to vote as Independents in the primary, she would have had to register as a Republican by October 2015.[2]

Personal life

Ivanka Trump at a rally for her father at Verizon Wireless Arena in Manchester, New Hampshire, February 8, 2016

During college, she was in a nearly four-year relationship with Greg Hersch, an investment banker at Solomon Smith Barney, Bear Stearns and UBS.[7][49] From 2001 to 2005, she dated James "Bingo" Gubelmann.[4][5][7]

In 2007 she started dating real estate developer Jared Kushner.[50] The couple married in a Jewish ceremony on October 25, 2009.[51] They have three children: daughter Arabella Rose Kushner (born July 2011)[52][53] and sons Joseph Frederick Kushner (born October 2013)[54] and Theodore James Kushner (born March 27, 2016).[55]

She is friends with Chelsea Clinton (daughter of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump's major opponent in the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election), who says of her: "There's nothing skin-deep about Ivanka. And I think that's a real tribute to her because certainly anyone as gorgeous as she is could have probably gone quite far being skin-deep."[56] Other friends include Georgina Bloomberg, whose father is Michael Bloomberg (a former New York City Mayor who had also considered entering the presidential race against Ivanka's father Donald).[57]

Trump has a close relationship with her father, who has publicly expressed his admiration for her in several occasions.[58][59] Ivanka has likewise praised her father, complimenting his leadership skills and saying he empowers other people.[60]

Religion, interests and spirituality

Ivanka Trump reads books by writers such as Ayn Rand, as well as having finance and real-estate textbooks in her office.[4]

She was raised Presbyterian.[61] Before her wedding, in July 2009, after studying with Rabbi Elie Weinstock from the Modern Orthodox Ramaz School, she had an Orthodox conversion to Judaism[62][63] and took the name Yael.[64][65] She attests to keeping a kosher diet and observing the Jewish Sabbath, saying in 2015: "We're pretty observant... It's been such a great life decision for me... I really find that with Judaism, it creates an amazing blueprint for family connectivity. From Friday to Saturday we don't do anything but hang out with one another. We don't make phone calls."[56]

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