The lavish New York City home of Ivana Trump has come on the market for $26.5 million.
The interiors of the 8,725-square-foot, limestone townhome take you back to the ritzy heyday of the glittery 1980s. The five-story home is outfitted with gold, leopard print, and pink marble, encapsulating the opulent style of the former model turned Trump Organization executive. She died in July at age 73.
Ivana purchased the home for $2.5 million in 1992 after her highly publicized divorce from former President Donald Trump. Built in 1899, the space had previously been used as a dentist’s office suite and had been vacant for about a dozen years before she purchased it. Extensive renovations were made in the townhouse where she raised Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and Ivanka Trump when they were teenagers.
The proceeds of the sale are to go to her three children.
“My mom absolutely loved that house,” Eric told the Wall Street Journal. He added it reflected her “style and elegance.”
Ivana, who at one time had been the vice president of interior design at the Trump Organization, had a flair for the dramatic in her decor choices in the townhome. The library is drenched in leopard print. In another room, there are walls upholstered in red and gold fabric, and another boasts a pleated gold fabric ceiling.
The late socialite described one room on the second floor as “how Louis XVI would have lived if he had had money” in her 2017 memoir, “Raising Trump,” according to the Journal. The home also has a garden and a terrace jutting from the primary bedroom.
The one thing missing from the 20-foot-wide, five-bedroom residence is a full-size kitchen. Ivana didn’t cook much as she got older, according to the Journal. However, the residence does come with two smaller, galley-style kitchens.
“She was so comfortable there,” Eric told the Journal. “It was the last possession in the world she would ever have gotten rid of.”
Ivana also owned a pied à terre in Miami Beach and real estate in France.
She was found dead at the bottom of her marble staircase in July. The medical examiner ruled she had fallen down the stairs.
