Former model Ivana Trump has diedat 73 due to unknown causes, perNBC News.
However, Ivana remained close to Donald even after their split.
She fled from communism and embraced this country.

She taught her children about grit and toughness, compassion and determination.
She will be dearly missed by her mother, her three children and ten grandchildren."
Ivana grew up in communist Czechoslovakia before emigrating to the U.S. At the time, Czechoslovakia was under the communist Soviet regime.

By doing so, she was able to obtain an Austrian passport and leave the country in 1972.
She moved to Canada first, and then New York, where she met Donald Trump.
To this day, Ivana was known to speak in Czech to her children.
He’s achieved so much, especially with immigration."
… And they don’t get a job and they steal and they rape the women.
That’s not our idea."