According to her spokeswoman, Ivana Trump, the ex-wife of Donald Trump, will marry her boyfriend, the Italian entrepreneur Rossano Rubicondi, on Saturday evening.
The wedding is taking place Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, the same place where Donald Trump married Melania Knauss three years ago.
Born in 1949, in Czechoslovakia, Ivana Trump met Donald Trump in the summer of 1976, while she was working as a model for Audrey Morris, the top modeling agency in Montreal at the time.
They were married in 1979. After a year of marriage, Donald Jr. was born. Over the next five years, Ivana gave birth to two more children: Ivanka and Eric.
While she was married to Donald, Ivana became the Vice President of Interior Design for the Trump Organization. She was responsible for all of the interior design of Trump's real estate : the Grand Hyatt Hotel, Trump Tower, Trump Plaza Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City where Ivana supervised construction and interior designed and eventually managed the project for the Trump Organization. She was also Chief Executive Officer and President of the Plaza Hotel, New York for four years. Their marriage ended in divorce in 1992.
After the divorce, she has established two companies, Ivana Inc. that manages her appearances and Ivana Haute Couture which markets her line of cosmetics, accessories and fragrances sold over the internet.
According to Catherine Saxton, Ivana’s spokeswoman, Donald Trump and tier children will attend at the wedding. “Ivanka is the maid of honor and her two sons are giving her away,” Saxton said.
Ivana and Rubicondi, who is 35 years old, have been together for about six years and they got engaged in September. According to the Associated Press, 600 guests are expected at the wedding.
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