Ivana Trump, the first wife of former President Donald Trump, was under FBI counterintelligence investigation after she eventually ended up in the U.S. after migrating out of then-communist Czechoslovakia.
Bloomberg News obtained scores of pages from an FBI file on Ivana Trump that included their findings from the international investigation that spanned from Europe to Canada.
The “secret” files said that in 1989 the FBI recommended opening an investigation into Ivana Trump based on information that bureau received from a confidential source. The FBI report noted that the allegations could have stemmed from “jealousies of her wealth and fame.”
Much is still not known about the two-year investigation other than it involved the FBI’s counterintelligence division and was deemed “highly sensitive.”
The FBI file reportedly had little information about Donald Trump in it.
The report said that the FBI found 900 pages of material that it had on Ivana Trump and, after being sued by Bloomberg News, agreed to release nearly 200 pages this week and will release the remainder next month.
The bureau can release the information now since Ivana Trump is no longer alive.
Ivana Trump was mother to the three oldest Trump children, Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka Trump, and Eric Trump.
Ivana Trump married Donald Trump in 1977. The couple later got divorced in 1992.
The New York Times reported that Ivana Trump was a “critical part” in Donald Trump building his real-estate business, describing her as extremely hard working and with a keen eye for details. At one point she served as vice president for interior design at the Trump Organization.
Ivana Trump and Donald Trump were on good terms in recent years, reportedly speaking as often as once a week, as she supported him politically and encouraged his use of Twitter.
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