Donald Trump with his first wife, Ivana Trump, and father, Fred Trump, at a Mike Tyson boxing match in 1988. Mary Trump and her brother, Fred Trump III, were the only children of Fred Trump jnr, the oldest sibling of Donald Trump, and Linda Clapp Trump, a former flight attendant who did not win her father-in-law’s approval. A fight over inheritanceWhen Fred Trump snr’s will was revised in 1991, he left $202,000 to each grandchild, including Mary Trump and Fred Trump III. “You may wish to increase their participation in your estate to avoid ill will in the future.”After Fred Trump snr died, on June 25th, 1999, Mary Trump and Fred Trump III learned that they had been cut out. Donald Trump with his sister Elizabeth Trump Grau, mother, Mary Trump, and Melania Knauss, as she was then, at Mar-a-Lago, in Florida, in 1999.

Source: The Irish Times July 09, 2020 04:52 UTC