What Was in Ivana Trump’s Estate Plan?

Gold Leaf Estate Planning, LLC

POSTED ON: February 9, 2023
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Ivana Trump left behind around $1 million for the nanny who raised her daughter Ivanka Trump and sons Eric Trump and Donald Jr. Trump, excluding her ex-husband former President Donald Trump from her will.

Newsweek’s recent article entitled “Ivana Trump Gives Nanny Who Raised Kids $1 Million as Donald Gets Nothing” reports that Dorothy Curry worked for the Trump family for decades. Ivana Trump left her a Florida condo estimated to be worth over $1 million, Forbes reported. Ivana left behind assets worth a total of $34 million.

Ivana, who died in July at the age of 73, wrote about Curry in her 2017 book Raising Trump and said that she started as a nanny “with a sparkle in her eye and plenty of nervous energy.” Curry reportedly taught the Trump kids prayers Ivana didn’t know in English.

The former nanny is also expected to receive Ivana’s dog, a Yorkshire named Tiger Trump.

The Trump family appeared to have thought greatly of Curry, who later worked as Ivana’s assistant for years. Eric Trump said in his mother’s book that he thought of Curry as his “second mother” and recalled the time they spent together in her native Ireland.

“She’s raised me since I was a baby, and we are incredibly close—inseparable. I love her immensely. She’s a big, and very important, part of our family,” he said in the book, according to The Federalist.

Ivana died from an accidental fall at her Manhattan house, according to the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner. The death was ruled accidental. First responders found her unresponsive at the bottom of a staircase at her house and she was pronounced dead at the scene, according to ABC News.

Her ex-husband expressed his sadness over the death of his ex-wife. “A very sad day, but at the same time a celebration of a wonderful and beautiful life,” he wrote at the time.

“I will be leaving shortly for the funeral service of Ivana. She will be laid to rest today. This will not be easy.”

“She had brains; she had beauty. She was the embodiment of the American dream… she was a force of nature, could beat any man down the slopes, any woman on the runway,” Eric Trump said during the service, according to a Mail Online report.

“She ruled the three of us [kids] with an iron fist but also a heart of gold,” he said.

Reference: Newsweek (Jan. 16, 2023) “Ivana Trump Gives Nanny Who Raised Kids $1 Million as Donald Gets Nothing”

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Attorney Zach Wiegand
Zach Wiegand is an estate planning and probate attorney in Minnesota who helps clients on estate planning, probate, and trust administration matters. Zach helps families preserve and protect their hard-earned assets by drafting comprehensive and protective estate plans including wills, trusts, health care directives and powers of attorney.
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