Ivanka Marie Trump (born October 30, 1981) is an American
businesswoman,
socialite,
heiress, and
fashion model. The daughter of
Ivana and
Donald Trump, she is
Executive Vice President of Development & Acquisitions at the
The Trump Organization. Before joining the family business she worked for
Forest City Enterprises,
and joined forces with Dynamic Diamond Corp., a
diamond trading company
sightholder, to design and introduce a line of
jewelry at the brand's first flagship retail store called 'Ivanka Trump' on
Madison Avenue.
Education
She attended
Choate Rosemary Hall in
Wallingford, Connecticut, as well as
The Chapin School in New York City.
She spent two years at
Georgetown University, then transferred to and graduated
from the
Wharton School of Business at the
University of Pennsylvania with a
bachelor of science in
Economics, summa cum laude, in 2004.
Modeling
Trump's first cover was a 1997 issue of
Seventeen. Since then, she has made her way down fashion runways for
Versace, Marc Bouwer and
Thierry Mugler. She has done advertisement campaigns for
Tommy Hilfiger and
Sassoon Jeans and was featured on the cover of
Stuff in August 2006 and again in September 2007. She was also recently featured on the covers of
Forbes,
Golf Magazine,
Avenue Magazine,
Elle Mexico and in the October 2007 issue of
Harper's Bazaar.
She placed #83 in the 2007
Maxim Hot 100. She has also placed #99 in the Top 99 Women of 2007 and then #84 in the 2008 edition on
AskMen.com.
TV appearances
In 1997, she hosted the
Miss Teen USA Pageant, which is partially owned by her father.
In 2003, she was featured in
Born Rich, a
documentary about the experience of growing up as a child in one of the world's most affluent families.
During an April 2006 appearance on
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Trump said that she and former boyfriend Bingo Gubelmann had broken up, yet they remain good friends.
Leno commented that he could hear her father's influence and inflections in her.
David Letterman also made a similar comment when she appeared on
Late Show with David Letterman on April 24, 2007.
Trump was a featured guest-judge on
Project Runway Season 3.
She was also at a
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, event in April 2007 called the
Creating Wealth Summit in which she spoke for about 30 minutes about making money and her latest projects.
She has been offered to appear on
The Bachelorette, but she declined.
The Apprentice
In 2006, she filled in for
Carolyn Kepcher on five episodes of her father's television program
The Apprentice 5, first appearing to help judge the
Gillette task in week 2.
Like Kepcher, Trump visited the site of the tasks and spoke to the teams, asking them pointed questions. She also evaluated contestants in the boardroom, pointing out critical errors and rebutting excuses they offered for losing the tasks. Though initially unsympathetic to the contestants, Trump later said,
"Whenever I see their breakdowns, I understand. They go virtually 24 hours a day, and each task takes about three days. Unless they win, they don’t get a day off... It’s an incredible amount of work..."
Trump now collaborates with season 5 winner
Sean Yazbeck on his winner's project of choice,
Trump Soho Hotel-Condominium.
[www.trumpsohohotel.com/_files/pdf/SoHo_Pre_Opening.pdf][www.trumpsoho.com/flash/download/press/st1.pdf]
Trump replaced
Carolyn Kepcher as a primary boardroom judge during the
Apprentice 6 and
The Celebrity Apprentice.
Personal life
In July 2009, Trump
converted from
Catholicism to
Judaism[Lesley Messer. "Ivanka Trump Converts to Judaism for Fiancé" [[People magazine|People] magazine; July 17, 2009]] after studying with Rabbi Elie Weinstock from
Ramaz, a
Modern Orthodox Jewish day school on the
Upper East Side of Manhattan. The
beth din that converted her included
Rabbi Hershel Schachter, and she took the name Yael.
[The View, October 26, 2009] On October 25, 2009 she married
Jared Kushner, owner of
The New York Observer.
[United Press International, Wedding Gifts for the Couple Who Have Everything New York Times]
