Ivana Trump,
Donald Trump’s first wife, died aged 73 on Thursday. Prior to her death, Ivana suffered
some trouble in her hips that did not allow her to walk and was also the reason
why she missed a trip to the Hamptons, a friend of Ivana who had known her for nearly
15 years told New York Post.

Zach Erdem, who
owns the Southampton hotspot 75 Main, said, “There was something going on with her
hip, she couldn’t walk.” Erdem said he had been expecting Ivana at his store
for the last two months, but she told him that she wasn’t feeling well. “She
said she was having pain in her leg…She couldn’t get out of her house.”

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At around 12:40 pm
on Thursday, former President Donald Trump’s wife of 15 years, Ivana Trump was
found lying on the floor at the bottom of a staircase at her Upper East Side
home in Manhattan.

While the cause of
death remains to be confirmed, law enforcement officials say Ivana might have
suffered a cardiac arrest
, either causing her to tumble down the stairs on the
floor where she was found.

When she spoke to
Erdem, her friend asked her to go to the doctor. To which, Ivana said: “No, I
hate going to doctors. I get more sick going to doctors.”

He added Ivana was
a kind, generous, supportive “mentor” with a side of flirtatiousness.

Donald Trump,
posting on TRUTH Social after Ivana’s death, wrote: “She was a wonderful,
beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life.”

Ivana Trump was
born in what is now known as the Czech Republic. Ivana and Donald got married
in 1977. The couple, New York hotshots in the 1980s, had three children –
Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric Trump. They got divorced in 1992.

Following the divorce,
Ivana Trump set up her own line of beauty products.

Ivanka Trump, her
daughter, wrote on Instagram: “Mom was brilliant, charming, passionate and
funny. She modelled strength, tenacity and determination in her every action.
She lived life to the fullest – never forgoing an opportunity to laugh and
dance.”