Ivanka Marie Trump (born October 30, 1981 in New York City, New York) is an American businesswoman and fashion model. She is the daughter of Ivana and Donald Trump and is currently Vice President of Real Estate Development and Acquisitions at the Trump Organization. Before working for her father, Ivanka worked for Forest City Enterprises. Trump joined forces with Dynamic Diamond Corp., a Diamond Trading Company Sightholder, to design and introduce a line of jewelry slated to be unveiled in September 2007 at the opening of the brand's first flagship retail store on Madison Avenue which is called Ivanka Trump. Trump is currently dating Jared Kushner.
Trump attended Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, as well as Chapin located in New York City. After graduation, she spent two years at Georgetown University, then transferred to and graduated summa cum laude from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor of science in economics in 2004.
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 ad campaigns for Tommy Hilfiger and Sassoon Jeans and was featured on the cover of Stuff magazine in August 2006 and again in September 2007. Ivanka was also recently featured on the covers of Forbes Magazine, Golf Magazine, Avenue Magazine, Elle Mexico and can be seen in the October 2007 issue of Harper's Bazaar. She presents herself as hardworking and very poised. Ivanka is making a name for herself professionally and independently. She placed #83 in the 2007 Maxim Hot 100.
In 1997, she hosted the Miss Teen USA Pageant, which is partially owned by her father, Donald Trump.
Trump gained fame in 2003 when 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, WI event in April 2007 called the Creating Wealth Summit in which she spoke for about 30 minutes about making money (Trump Way) and her latest projects.
She had been offered to appear in The Bachelorette, but she declined.
She does not consider herself as an "heiress" and does not like being compared with Paris Hilton.
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. She has already appeared on several episodes with her brother, Donald Jr., with Donald Sr. referring to his two children as "two true Apprenti [sic]". 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 replaced Carolyn Kepcher as a primary boardroom judge, beginning with Season 6 of The Apprentice.
While the media have often compared Trump to Paris Hilton, heiress to the Hilton Hotel fortune, Trump has objected to the comparison, explaining, “I work 13-hour days for my money,” in an interview with the London Express in 2007, and “I bought my house from my father — I have a mortgage, you know.” Trump asserted, "I think we are totally different individuals....If I were to go off the rails and become this party kid, I would not be able to afford my lifestyle. I’ve never had a sense of entitlement. I saw how hard my father worked for his money and it was always made very clear to me that things wouldn’t just be given to me.”
