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There was just one thing that would have made the brash and chaotic circus of the Trump presidency complete — his irrepressible first wife, Ivana.

Unlike shy and glacial Melania, whose heart never seemed to be in it, the Czech-born former skiing instructor and fur coat model would have been the perfect, larger-than-life First Lady for the bombastic president.

Her outrageous hairdos were as bouffant as his, her wit as caustic and her personality just as egocentric and competitive.

The formidable Ivana was also a detail-obsessed workaholic who played a key role in the Trump business empire.

She became an unlikely hit with British viewers in the 2010 series of Celebrity Big Brother and would surely have relished every second in the — although heaven only knows what of kitsch would have done with the decor.

Instead, Ivana had to observe some sense of decorum and 핑카지노주소 watch from the sidelines — and largely succeeded.

Although she diplomatically stayed silent about 'The Donald' (as she memorably dubbed him) during his election campaign, a woman who'd traded off her husband's name for years could hardly keep quiet when she had a memoir to plug in 2017.

'I have the direct number to White House,' she boasted on U.S.

breakfast TV with her distinctive Eastern European diction, adding that — 25 years after they divorced — she still talked to The Donald every two weeks.

'But I don't really want to call him because Melania is there and 핑카지노주소 I don't really want to cause any kind of jealousy or something like that because I'm basically first Trump wife.

I'm First Lady, OK?'

Of course, it was designed to get a rise and it worked. Within hours, Melania had broken her usual silence and issued a statement defending herself, adding icily: 'There is clearly no substance to this statement from an ex.

Unfortunately only attention-seeking and self-serving noise.'

A rebuke like that was hardly going to quell a force of nature like Ivana, a woman who, on discovering while they were skiing in Aspen that Mr Trump was cheating on her with future wife Marla Maples, had it out with Maples and then spotted her husband hastily putting on his skis to flee her wrath.

She pursued the wobbly novice down the mountain, wagging her finger in his face as she skied backwards beside him and he tried to avoid falling over.

Ivana, who died on Thursday, aged 73, after falling downstairs at her Manhattan home, always seemed made of rather tougher stuff than the other women in The Donald's life.

Indeed, he reportedly resolved that after Ivana — who became head of interior design for the Trump Organisation and managed a clutch of its biggest developments — he'd never again marry a woman who competed with him in the boardroom and in the social pages.

During their 15-year marriage, which lasted from 1977 to 1992, they set new standards for glitzy excess as they came to epitomise the 1980s New York power couple — an image which Mr Trump exploited as he built the TV career that eventually took him to the White House.

Ivana shared his limitless ambition, boasting that 'in 50 years, we will be the Rockefellers'.

Although she had a reputation for being less brash and more charming than him (which can't have been hard), her candid revelations, even to casual acquaintances, about her sex life proved too much for those in New York society who would have preferred a little less information.

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