Vanessa Kay Trump

Vanessa Trump is an American former model. She married Donald Trump Jr. in 2005 and they divorced in 2018. She was born in New York City.

She grew up in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and attended The Dwight School, a private school. Charles Haydon, her stepfather (who some news articles refer to as her father), was a lawyer whose clients included Marilyn Monroe and Broadway producer and real estate mogul Abe Hirschfeld. Her mother, Bonnie Kay Haydon, ran Kay Models, a modeling agency and is of Danish and Swedish origin. Her maternal grandfather was Danish jazz musician Kai Ewans.

She was a model in her teens and twenties and was signed to Wilhelmina Models. As an actor, she appeared in a scene of the 2003 film Something's Gotta Give. She also appeared in a 2011 episode of The Apprentice (hosted by her father-in-law, Donald Trump) and Bret Michaels: Life as I Know It (2010). She and her sister Veronika opened a nightclub, Sessa, in the fall of 2003. She also released her own line of handbags, La Poshett, from 2010 to 2013.

Vanessa married Donald Trump Jr. on November 12, 2005. The wedding was held at the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida; the service was officiated by Trump Jr.'s aunt, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry. Trump Jr. proposed to her with a $100,000 ring which he received as a gift from a jeweler in exchange for proposing to her in front of paparazzi outside of the jeweler's store in a New Jersey mall. Together they have five children. On March 15, 2018, it was reported that Vanessa filed for an uncontested divorce in New York; however, it was later revealed that the divorce was contested. In July 2018, they resolved a child custody issue, and the divorce was settled at the end of 2018. (Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

References

• Rosner, Elizabeth and Julia Marsh. "Donald Trump Jr. finalizes divorce from Vanessa." The New York Post, published 22 February 2019. < link > Accessed 13 March 2022.
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