One in every of Ivana Trump’s finest mates all the time fearful that Ivana may slip on what she referred to as the attractive however “treacherous” staircase at her opulent Manhattan dwelling.
“I used to be all the time so upset about that staircase,” Ivana’s shut good friend, Nikki Haskell, who first met her in 1976, advised The Publish. “I hated these stairs. They have been so treacherous. We fearful about her falling. Her townhouse was 4 tales excessive and whereas there was an elevator, she by no means used it. It’s a stupendous staircase however I wouldn’t need it. It’s so steep and deep. Mates used to say to me, ‘Why don’t you stick with Ivana whenever you’re in New York?’ However you couldn’t pay me to hang around there and go up and down these stairs.”
Trump, 73, who had bother strolling and was not within the finest well being, was discovered on the backside of the steps this week after both falling or going into cardiac arrest, authorities stated. Town Medical Examiner’s workplace has deemed her dying unintended.
Ivana usually posed in her luxurious, multi-million greenback townhouse on East sixty fourth Avenue with the staircase within the background. Gossip columnist Rob Shuter stated Friday evening on Information Nation that he had visited the condominium — and in addition referred to as the staircase “treacherous.”
“(The condominium) wasn’t as renovated and on top of things as you’d suppose,” Shuter stated. “These stairs have been all the time harmful. The carpet on these stairs have been just a little bit worn too.”
Haskell, who had dinner with Trump not too way back, stated that in recent times Donald’s usually outgoing and social first spouse had turn out to be “reclusive.”
“The previous couple of years, she grew to become very reclusive… She had an enormous townhouse and he or she was actually afraid of getting the virus, far more so than anyone I do know. She didn’t wish to go anyplace, she didn’t wish to journey… She took it very, very severely. She was afraid of getting sick.”
However Trump was reportedly about to rejoin the world, in keeping with Haskell, and had been prepping to depart New York for St. Tropez the place she had a house.
“She lastly determined, ‘Okay, I’m going to go…’ She stayed in New York that complete time. She by no means left in any respect, and he or she was by herself and I'm positive it was far more attempting than I might even think about.”
Haskell stated Ivana’s household and mates fearful about her cussed insistence that she stay alone within the monumental townhouse.
“I begged her to promote it and transfer to the Pierre,” Haskell stated. “However she stated, ‘No, I’m by no means leaving right here.'”
Trump had a housekeeper who got here on daily basis and a secretary who got here three days per week. “In any other case she was all by herself in that massive place.” She normally rose at 5:30 or 6am on daily basis and Haskell stated she hopes that the truth that Ivana was discovered with a espresso cup close by means she had not fallen the evening earlier than however the day of her dying.
Ivana was married to Austrian Alfred Winklmayr years earlier than tying the knot with Donald, and went on to wed two extra instances after her divorce from Trump — marrying Italian businessman Riccardo Mazzucchelli and later, Italian actor Rossano Rubicondi, 49.
Till his dying from issues associated to melanoma in October, Ivana spent most of her time with Rubicondi.
The 2 have been divorced however Rubicondi got here by on daily basis and so they usually had lunch or dinner at Ivana’s favourite native spots like Nello’s and Cipriani’s, Haskell stated.
“I didn’t take care of him,” Haskell stated. “However it was none of my enterprise. They'd a bond. I feel that’s why we stayed mates for thus lengthy. I didn’t decide her or query her choices and he or she didn’t with me both.”
Haskell stated she was involved about Ivana within the months following Rubicondi’s dying.
“I requested her if she was depressed. She stated, ‘No, I’m unhappy.'”
Her reported mobility issues stem from her previous as a champion skier in Czechoslovakia, in addition to a fall she took at Avra restaurant a couple of years in the past when she caught her foot within the strap of somebody’s purse and fell, Haskell stated.
“I feel she was extraordinarily depressed that Rossano died,” Haskell added.
However Haskell stated regardless of Ivana’s practically 15-year relationship with Rubicondi, he was not her most essential relationship.
“Donald was the love of her life,” Haskell stated. “I feel she was all the time in love with Donald. They have been very shut and he or she had nice respect for him.”
Lately, Ivana was closest to her son, Eric, as a result of he stayed in New York when the remainder of the Trumps went to Washington in 2017.
“However she remained near all her household,” Haskell stated. “Her mom is 96 and lives with Ivanka and Jared in Florida.”
Haskell stated a funeral service for Ivana is about for July 20 at St. Vincent’s Church at 869 Lexington Ave.
A gentle stream of well-wishers and mourners visited exterior Ivana’s townhouse Saturday.
Carol Dyner, 86, a retired social employee stopped by to depart a bouquet of purple carnations.
“Day by day I handed and he or she bought her canine and he or she talked to me and he or she was great,” Dyner advised The Publish. “I stated, ‘Good day Darling.’ I pet Tiger, you realize and I all the time stated, ‘Always remember what you probably did. You raised the kids by your self, you ran his empire, beautiful, not a touch is scandal about you. We don’t neglect. We all know. She’d say, ‘Thanks.’ She was great. She died too younger.”
Dyner added that she recalled seeing Rubicondi, coming round regardless of their divorce.
“In October the younger fellow died,” Dyner stated. “I used to see her taking him round. She took care of him till the top.”
June, 63, a dentist who didn't need her final identify used, got here along with her golden retriever, Apollo. She knelt along with her canine and stated a prayer. She stated “it was stunning” when she heard the information of Ivana’s dying.
“I knew her not directly,” she added. “Everyone adopted her on the information. She was a drive. I noticed all of the newspapers and the scandal however she was actually sleek, she by no means duked it out. She was elegant.”
Extra reporting by Georgett Roberts
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