Remembering my friend, the iconic Ivana Trump

Farewell, Ivana, mannequin citizen

Ivana.

She was rep’d in These Days by lawyer Jay Goldberg. She liked dinner at now closed E. 60s Rotisserie Georgette. She was on the duvet of James Edstrom’s e-book on ’80s trend. We shared the ache of shedding our a number of co-Yorkies.

Off from Aspen one winter snowboarding she misplaced seven suitcases. She was launching a brand new perfume. She spent a night together with her kids on their yacht. She wrote her memoir titled “The Greatest Is But To Come.”

Summered in London with Riccardo then removed him the subsequent season. Did a Pocket Ebook novel titled “Free To Love.” Attended a ladies’s energy lunch on the Rainbow Room. Was up cooking Thanksgiving turkey at 5 a.m.

She and Beverly Sills gave a celebration for the NYC opera dressed as its lead characters. Skated throughout Wollman Rink. Toured the world’s sister motels over two weeks. In ’88 did up the Eloise suite within the Plaza.

In ’88 acquired her American citizenship. Gave staff of the Plaza 1,100 turkeys. She attended Princess Diana’s gala. Was upset when carpet for the Plaza foyer was delayed. She’d do girls lunch at La Grenouille.

Posed for Vogue over a weekend. Was in Deborah Raffin’s Christmas e-book. Went to Czechoslovakia together with her kids for her father’s funeral. Was obtainable for lectures by the William Morris Company.

Ivana Trump and Cindy Adams posing with their dogs in 2004.
Ivana Trump and Cindy Adams posing with their canine in 2004.
Picture by RJ Capak/WireImage
Ivana Trump's casket being carried out of St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church after her funeral on July 20, 2022.
Ivana Trump’s casket being carried out of St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church after her funeral on July 20, 2022.
Picture by Alexi J. Rosenfeld/Getty Photographs

Helped ladies for Columbia Grammar Faculty’s fund-raiser. Was a visitor on E! TV. Whoever’s Prince Max Schaumburg-Lippe of Austria escorted her someplace. In ’08 Ivanka gave mother a present certificates to her jewellery retailer.


Her world enchantment

She was in a industrial in London for Trump Tower. Her prenup acquired talked about in connection to Elton John marrying David Furnish. She took her mom to Rome. Gave a March of Dimes cookout on the Plaza.

Hosted a VIP screening of “The Affair of the Necklace” with Depend Roffredo. When her hairdresser was busy she despatched her hairclip there by limo and the hairdresser fastened it and it rode again to Ivana by limo. Did a e-book based mostly on columnist me.

Cindy and Ivana at a party in 1990.
Cindy and Ivana at a Manhattan celebration in 1990.
Picture by Ron Galella/Ron Galella Assortment by way of Getty Photographs

Dined together with her in-laws at Le Cirque. Palm Seaside Attorneys Fee acquired sneaky about her swimming pool. Was heading to St-Tropez this week. And Ivana Marie Zelnickova, born Feb. 20, 1949, in Gottwaldov, Czechoslovakia, may have mentioned, “Ivana acquired all of it” — as a result of she did.


One other pal gone

Regardless of the ache, one other goodbye to a different endlessly pal Carleton Varney.

Designer, decorator, creator, head of the Dorothy Draper design group. He spruced up the Carlyle, Waldorf, Palm Seaside’s Breakers Resort, Eire’s Ashford Fortress, the Greenbrier, White Home rooms, Mackinac Island, Michigan’s Grand Resort. And he produced good-looking profitable sons Nicholas, Sebastian and Seamus.

Carleton additionally wrote books. One’s being reproduced now for TV.


Sunday, please tune into my common hourlong WABC radio broadcast 770 on the AM dial. I’m remembering my endlessly pals. Each the world treasured. Each have been worldwide. However each lived solely in New York, children, solely in New York. 

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