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Ivanka Trump Gives a Social Media Tour of Her Washington, D.C., Home

By Alissa Schulman

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It’s only been a few months since Ivanka Trump and her clan (including husband Jared Kushner, director of the White House Office of American Innovation) moved their residence to Washington, D.C., from their longtime home in New York City. But it doesn't seem like the family of five is having any trouble getting comfortable. Ivanka Trump even shared a video of her youngest son reaching a major milestone: taking his first steps in their new Waddy Wood–designed, 7,000-square-foot Kalorama home . In the post shared to Instagram, Trump encourages 14-month-old Theodore as he trots through the family’s living room—giving us a peek at the modern décor. The dark hardwood floors are covered by a crushed light gray area rug, with two pristine white sofas placed across from each other. One sofa is hugged by a triangular white marble end table on one side and a round metal table on the other. In the middle of the room, a modern mirrored coffee table holds a stack of books that match the light color palette. A black marble fireplace anchors the room, with a framed mirror hanging above.

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Earlier this week, Trump gave us a look inside another sitting room of the home, which has a similar modern style and color palette. Here, we see a black fireplace surrounded by a white marble wall. A hanging abstract light fixture is the focus of the room, complemented by two black armchairs. In a video of a post-work dance party with her sons, the Women Who Work author shows her followers the family's eating nook, which has a small white round table, black bench, and high chair for Theodore; glass-paned doors let in natural daylight. She wrote, “Little moments matter, especially for working moms!”

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Trump hasn't been shy about letting viewers see snaps of the family adapting to their new living space. Last month, she shared a pic that appeared to be a living room with an armless light gray sofa covered in olive green pillows and a thick gray area rug that matches the light wood flooring it covers; the month before, she shared a shot of the family's formal dining room, complete with a black marble fireplace similar to the one in the sitting room. Beige upholstered chairs surround the large black table (where her older son, Joseph sat for the photo), and gold flatware and a floral arrangement had been set out for a dinner.

She even offered a photo of Theodore's nursery, shared shortly after the family relocated in January. In keeping with the rest of the house's color palette of neutral tones, his crib and bedding is white, as is the wallpaper, though the latter is livened with drawings of sailboats. A blue couch adds a pop of color to an otherwise grayscale room.

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Exclusive tour of Ivana Trump's Manhattan townhouse listed for $26.5M

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Rosanna Scotto gets an exclusive look at the late Ivana Trump's Manhattan townhouse that is listed for $26.5 million

NEW YORK - Rosanna Scotto received an exclusive tour of the late Ivana Trump's Manhattan townhouse.  The home is listed for $26.5 million.

The mansion has a limestone exterior.  The front door leads to a gallery reception area covered in red carpet and red wallpaper.

Ivana Trump purchased the home in 1992.

The six-story residence, located on E. 64th st. on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, was built in 1897 and sprawls over 8,725 square feet, featuring an additional 700 square feet of outdoor space.

The house has five levels and a lower level. One of the levels is a parlor that could host 100 guests.  It features a crystal chandelier.

The home also has an elevator.

The townhouse has 5 bedrooms in total, as well as 5½ bathrooms.

Photo credit: Evan Joseph | Evan Joseph Photography

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Are Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner planning on draining the swamp in their backyard?

The former White House advisers reportedly closed on this 6-bedroom, 8½-bathroom mansion for $24 million on April 13 at almost a million-dollar discount after it sat on the market for half a year. 

But while new aerial photos show that outdoor hot tubs have been drained, a swimming pool’s water has turned to a putrid dark green — in contrast to the inviting, sparkling blue seen in previous listing photos. The back patio appears to be in the midst of retiling.

The last recorded update for the 1.26-acre lot’s pools, jacuzzi and patio was in 1994 when the home was built, according to Miami-Dade property records, although there has been unspecified “remodeling,” according to the listing.

Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner reportedly purchased this Florida home for $24 million.

The LLC that purchased the house is in the care of attorney Louis Archambault, who did not reply to The Post’s request for comment. The Post could not independently verify that Trump and Kushner are associated with the LLC, but The Real Deal , Realtor.com , The Sun and the Independent have all attributed the transaction to Kushner and Trump.

New aerial photos show that the spas have been drained and the swimming pool has turned from the sparkling blue, as seen in the listing photos, to a dark green. The back patio appears to be amid re-tiling.

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The backyard is visible from the other direction in this photo.

The front of the 8,510-square-foot French neo-classical home has a flat roof, arched windows and a balcony with a triangular pedimented roof, photos show.

Inside, a crystal chandelier dangles from 26-foot domed ceilings over a Cinderella staircase. The foyer leads to entertaining areas, a screening room, a wood-paneled office, a gym and a primary bedroom suite with two full bathrooms, according to the listing.

The house was sold by billionaire Alex Meruelo and his wife, Liset Meruelo. Record producer Scott Storch also previously owned the house, from 2004 to 2008, property records show.

The front of the 8,510-square-foot, French neo-classical home is pictured.

At the end of last year , Kushner and Trump also purchased a $30 million+ lot with 200 feet of beachfront, formerly owned by Julio Iglesias, on the other side of the island, Page Six previously reported.

However, they are rumored to be unwelcome at a members-only country club on the island.

Featuring some of Florida’s most exclusive properties for the ultra-wealthy, the gated, exclusive Indian Creek Island is laid out with about 30 mansions on the beaches, keeping the center of the island open for club activities. The island offers amenities including a 24-hour police force and an 18-hole golf course, according to the listing.

An opulent chandelier is prominently displayed in the kitchen.

Trump and Kushner’s immediate neighbors include a planned $55 million pre-construction home listing and another home next door that sold for $17 million in April. On the other side is a home owned by Haitian billionaire Gilbert Bigio. Football star Tom Brady , Wall Street investor Carl Icahn, singer Julio Iglesias and former Sears CEO Edward Lampert are among other neighbors on the island, according to the Miami Herald.

Trump and Kushner are reportedly residing at the Arte Surfside, a condominium near the Champlain Towers South condominium that collapsed on June 23.

Listing broker Ralph Arias of ONE Sotheby’s International Realty and seller broker Oren Alexander of Douglas Elliman did not respond to requests for comment.

The main living room, accessible from the foyer, leads to the backyard.

Update: A previous version of this article incorrectly referred to Indian Creek Island as Fisher Island.

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HOUSE TOUR: Ivanka Trump's New York City Apartment

With her signature determination, Ivanka Trump turns to designer Kelly Behun to transform an apartment in an Upper East Side tower into the first home for her young family.

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At 30, Trump is the quintessence of the chic, modern working wife and mother, albeit with a pop-culture twist. Flanking her famous father in the Celebrity Apprentice boardroom, she offers cool, savvy observations that have catapulted the fashion-forward heiress into TV stardom—and that showcase her as the business dynamo she is off screen in her role as executive vice president of development and acquisitions for the Trump Organization. So when Trump and her husband, Jared Kushner—who runs the Observer Media Group —decided to vacate his Greenwich Village bachelor digs for their first home together, her priority was clear: proximity. "Nothing beats living two blocks from work, not to mention Central Park," she says. "At night, I can run home, give [year-old] Arabella Rose a kiss, a bottle, put her to bed, then return to the office or dinner. Anytime I have five minutes, you'll see me sprinting over to see her."

Not that she misses a beat in the business world. "Deal making has given Ivanka a great eye for nuance and detail," says Trump's decorator, Kelly Behun , who was introduced to the couple by another client, Wendi Murdoch. "During our meetings, Ivanka would be on the phone, closing a hotel deal, hit pause , say: 'Isn't that the gray you showed me two weeks ago?' push play , and keep negotiating. She doesn't anguish over decisions."

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This remained true even for a project so personally significant. "Being traditional and feminine, I wanted luxury and glamour," Trump says, "while Jared gravitates toward the modern, which can be austere." Ultimately, the woman who grew up in the famous marble palaces of her parents, Donald and Ivana Trump, agreed that sleeker is better. The result is what Behun calls "modern warm": contemporary angles swathed in soothing shades, starting with the foyer and its silver-leaf wallpaper, painted with a botanical mural.

Trump's own design voice—"knowing what I like, being specific," she says—was honed spearheading design for the Trump Hotel Collection and by launching her own lines of fashion, shoes, and handbags, as well as fine jewelry in stones from diamonds to rock crystal and onyx.

As a result, adds Behun, "Ivanka had a budget. They're not extravagant." Trump says, "When I don't like something, I articulate it, but Kelly always had seven other options. The last thing I wanted was a presentation—'This is your living room.' Since I like working piecemeal, she showed me cool pieces and we designed around those." One such element is a fanciful glass light fixture by Lindsey Adelman —" the first piece I bought, and still my favorite thing"—which hangs above the dining table.

The apartment's most glorious accessory, of course, visible from every window, is the spectacular Manhattan panorama, as much fine art as the eye-popping real stuff on the walls. "We recently started collecting," says Trump. "We only buy what we absolutely love." One of the couple's prized pieces is Rob Wynne 's I Walk Everyday in Search of You , which is made of oversize glass letters that line the corridor to their daughter's nursery—"my favorite room," she adds.

"As impractical as it is, what I wanted for my first baby was a simple, all-white nursery," explains Trump. "Then I started reading books that said babies need color for stimulation, and I was horrified. Within a month, I'd hung one of those ugly colored mobiles off the crib."

When she's not in her daughter's room, Trump is likely to be found in the family's gleaming, high-tech kitchen. "I didn't cook at all until I was married," admits Trump, who converted to Judaism when she wed Kushner and now keeps a kosher kitchen. "Every Friday I leave work early to make a huge meal for just the two of us. Jared walks in and I'll be on a conference call, steaming wontons, saying, 'Don't bother me now.'" She's even cured her own duck, which she wrapped in cheesecloth and duct-taped to the top of the refrigerator for three weeks. "Three years ago, I couldn't boil an egg, and now I'm curing my own duck prosciutto," she says. "I even impressed myself."

That mind-set has paid off at home. "Had I done this apartment five years ago," Trump muses, "it might not have turned out so well. But I just had fun with it. I have the good fortune to have a beautiful apartment on Park Avenue, so how much can you really mess up?" In the end, she continues, "I want a home where kids can live happily and my husband can put his feet on the table or lie on the sofa watching TV and not be worried. Nothing should be so precious that you can't use it."

This story originally appeared in the October 2012 issue of ELLE DECOR. Take a tour of the home here .

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Eighteen years before her death, Ivana Trump took “Extra” inside her five-floor Manhattan home.

Trump gave a tour of her living room, dining room, “leopard room,” and fitness center.

Ivana shared about how different her Manhattan home was in comparison to her Palm Beach and Miami homes, saying, “Each of my homes are totally different. The home in New York is a little bit more formal. Palm Beach is like the colors… it’s on the ocean. Miami is totally modern.”

Days ago, it was revealed that 73-year-old Ivana died from “blunt-impact injuries” to her torso suffered in a fall down the stairs in her Manhattan home.

Her death was listed as an accident.

Trump was found at the bottom of the winding staircase seen at the beginning of our video, in which Ivana can be seen holding onto Jerry Penacoli as they went up the stairs.

“Extra’s” Carlos Greer recently spoke with her close friend, socialite Nikki Haskell, about their friendship, Ivana’s final days, and how she feared her friend would fall down that very staircase.

Nikki responded to reports that Ivana was found at the bottom of her stairs, saying, “I have to tell you something — that has always been my fear. She had one of those really beautiful staircases that was impossible to walk down. Narrow in the inside and wider as it got out. I was always afraid that she would fall. I don’t know what happened, but it’s not hard for me to believe that’s what happened — treacherous stairs.”

On Wednesday, Ivana’s funeral was held at St. Vincent Ferrer Roman Catholic Church in New York City. The service was attended by her close friends and family.

Ivana’s three children, Donald Jr., Eric and Ivanka, were joined at the service by their father, her ex-husband, former President Donald Trump.

The former president’s wife Melania and their son Barron were also in attendance.

During the funeral, Eric shared , “She had brains, she had beauty, she was the embodiment of the American dream… She was a force of nature.”

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“She ruled the three of us [kids] with an iron fist, but also a heart of gold,” Eric added.

As for his last conversation with his mom, Eric said, “The night before she passed, she told me she was going to live to 120 years old.”

Ivanka remembered her mom, telling mourners, “Growing up, my mother didn’t tell me a woman could do anything she wanted to — she showed me. She was a trailblazer to men and women alike.”

She went on, “My mother once told me there was nothing she couldn’t do in heels. She taught us how to spearfish, and then cook what we caught. My mom expanded our minds.”

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Ivanka Trump’s Tricky Comeback Tour

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By Naomi Fry

A blackandwhite photo of Ivanka Trump walking while photographers take pictures of her.

Poor Ivanka! Just when she thought she was out, they pulled her back in . I am referring, of course, to her recent appearance at the civil fraud trial of her father, Donald Trump, which has been ongoing in Manhattan for six weeks. The trial stems from the New York attorney general Letitia James’s contention that the former President—along with his two eldest sons, and other Trump Organization executives—fraudulently inflated his net worth, and the value of his real-estate assets on financial documents, which helped them secure favorable loans for the company.

Ivanka narrowly wriggled out of being a defendant herself: she stopped working for the Trump Organization, where she had been an executive vice-president, in 2017—which, as luck would have it, places her outside the statute of limitations for the trial’s purposes. She also did her best to avoid getting called as a government witness, with her lawyers claiming that she would “suffer undue hardship” if she were “required to testify at trial in New York in the middle of a school week.” (Ivanka lives in Florida and has three young children.) But, despite this heartstrings-pulling nod to the spectre of motherhood, the claim was rejected by the prosecution. And so there she was on Wednesday morning, striding into the New York State Supreme Courthouse, the picture of staid elegance in a navy suit and coat, a Chanel handbag in her hand, her hair long and smooth down her back, a slight smile on her face (which, if one were to believe the Daily Mail , might have been newly if tastefully nipped and tucked for the occasion). She was, apparently, ready to like it or lump it.

In the years since her father was dragged, kicking and screaming, out of office, Ivanka—the cleverest, arguably least embarrassing member of her clan—has attempted, with some effort, to rebuild her life away from her previous power bases. Before the Trump Presidency, in her native New York, she ran a successful apparel business, and was also a front-facing pillar of her father’s real-estate company and his heiress apparent. After her father was elected, she and her husband, the butter-wouldn’t-melt-in-his-mouth real-estate scion Jared Kushner, moved to D.C., where they served as advisers in the Trump Administration, with Ivanka becoming a kind of First Lady manquée in the frequent absence of her stepmother, Melania. But, unfortunately for Ivanka, the latter period, with its shocking and chaotic January 6th coda , proved disastrous to the reputation she had worked to establish in the former. Once a member of New York’s élite social set and a staple of the charity-gala circuit, she was suddenly persona non grata, her toxic association with her father too hot to handle for her generally liberal cohort, none of whom seemed to want to be photographed at a party with a woman who wrote, after the Capitol riot, in a since-deleted tweet, that the insurrectionists were “American patriots.” (In the same tweet, she called for an end to the violence and asked these patriots to “be peaceful.”)

And so, after leaving the White House, Ivanka and Kushner relocated to Miami. The family lives in the gated community of Indian Creek Village, known as “billionaire bunker,” where, to once again reference the Ivanka-obsessed Daily Mail , they seem to have been spending their days pleasantly enough, wakeboarding , boating , and going to synagogue . (Before marrying Kushner, who was raised Modern Orthodox, Ivanka converted to Judaism.) And yet, for all the considerable comforts of high-end beach-side living, this still felt like a self-imposed exile. Ivanka, despite occasionally speaking out against her dad—in 2016, she referred to his comments in the “Access Hollywood” tape as “ inappropriate and offensive ,” and, more recently, she told Congress that she doesn’t believe the 2020 election was stolen—had chosen to ensconce herself in MAGA -pilled Florida. As far as one could tell, she appeared reconciled to never being invited back to the A-list events she was once a shoo-in for, like Anna Wintour’s Met Gala.

Lately, however, there have been signs that Ivanka is hoping for a return to the fold. In late 2022, she released a statement in which she officially distanced herself from her father, announcing that she will not be part of his 2024 Presidential campaign and would prefer to lead a “private life” that’s not “involved in politics.” And an even more pointed sign that change was afoot came a couple of weeks ago, and not just from any quarters, but from the most powerful woman in America: Kim Kardashian. In an October 22nd Instagram post , in which Kardashian called herself “so blessed to have hit the jackpot of friends,” the reality-TV star threw up a number of pictures of her best gal pals getting down at her forty-third birthday party in Beverly Hills, including not just her famous sisters and social mainstays such as the model Hailey Bieber and Jeff Bezos’s fiancée, Lauren Sanchez, but also Ivanka, looking as polished as ever in a sparkly white two-piece top-and-skirt set. This was mysterious—it’s still not exactly clear to me what Kardashian’s angle is here—but it seemed undeniable that a P.R. campaign was under way, especially when, a week later, Kardashian posted an Instagram story wishing Ivanka a happy birthday, calling her “the most thoughtful sweetest soul.” In one posted picture, Ivanka and Kardashian were sitting near a fireplace, the two women’s respective daughters, Arabella and North, on their laps, with, for good measure, a fluffy white dog in Arabella’s arms. (“Our babies are so small here,” Kardashian added, with a crying-face emoji.)

We are so back, the posts seemed to suggest. But not so fast. Soon enough, Ivanka was on the witness stand, once again in the thankless role of cleaning up her father’s mess. Initially set to testify before the former President, she ended up following him, owing to a scheduling issue. During his own testimony, on Monday , Trump gave, as expected, an extended fart-and-shout-style performance, calling Attorney General James’s prosecution “a political witch hunt” and rambling about the underhanded motivations for the trial. Ivanka’s testimony, meanwhile, was muted and polite. She smiled, spoke softly, and even bantered a little with Judge Arthur F. Engoron. This pleasant manner, however, was laced with what my colleague John Cassidy called “selective amnesia.” In the course of her nearly five-hour testimony, Ivanka repeatedly went Reagan-in-Iran-Contra-deposition mode, seemingly unable to recall her knowledge of or involvement in securing favorable loans based on an inflated valuation of Trump Organization assets, even when faced with e-mails sent from her own account. Ivanka was “very, very nice, very friendly,” James said outside the courthouse. Still, she went on, Trump’s daughter was involved in obtaining the beneficial loans that lie at the core of the trial. “The documents do not lie. The numbers do not lie.” This most thoughtful sweetest soul, James was indicating, might have known and done more than she’s letting on. ♦

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See inside Ivana Trump's Upper East Side townhouse now on sale for over $25 million

One word: opulence.

Anna Rahmanan

Much has been said about the stunning five-story townhouse that Ivana Trump, who passed away back in July at the age of 73, lived in for three decades—and for good reason: the home, which Donald Trump's ex-wife bought for $2.5 million back in 1992, exudes opulence at every corner. 

Folks are now able to actually see inside of the Upper East Side mansion at 10 East 64th Street right by Central Park, as Trump's children—Eric, Ivanka and Donald Jr.—have listed it for $26.5 million that will be split among them.

Although the 8,725-square-foot townhouse, currently a listing of both the Modlin Group and Douglas Elliman, is being shown with its former owner's furniture still in place (expect loads of gold and animal prints), there's a lot missing inside, including a proper kitchen. 

Here is what the home does boast, though: a Versailles-inspired dining room with floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking an interior private courtyard, a beautiful office complete with a gold fireplace, a total of five bedrooms, a huge basement with a contemporary Swedish sauna and a media room on the first floor. Talk about real estate porn.

Below, scroll through some photos from inside of the home:

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Ivanka Trump Posts Throwback of Late Mother Ivana for Her 75th Birthday: ‘We Raise Our Sails in Your Honor’

"Imagining you sailing through the heavens guided by the stars… today would have been your 75th birthday," Ivanka wrote in a tribute to her mother, who died in July 2022

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Ivanka Trump  is remembering her late mother, Ivana Trump , on what would have been her 75th birthday.

On Instagram, Ivanka, 42, shared a throwback image of her mother wearing a captain's costume and appearing to sail a ship.

"Imagining you sailing through the heavens guided by the stars… today would have been your 75th birthday," Ivanka wrote in the caption. She continued: "We raise our sails in your honor, Mom, navigating through life with the compass of your love and intrepid spirit. We miss and love you."

Ivana — who also shared children  Donald Jr.  and  Eric  with ex-husband  Donald Trump  —  died at her New York City home  on July 14, 2022, at the age of 73.

On the first anniversary of her death, a source told PEOPLE that Ivanka was leaning on her husband and children  amid continued grief . “Ivanka is spending precious time with her husband and her children, doing what she loves most: being a mother," a source told PEOPLE in July. "She feels there is no better way to honor her late mother than to nurture and love on her own children."

Since her mother's death, Ivanka has consciously focused on her family,  opting to separate herself from politics  and instead prioritize time with her husband,  Jared Kushner , and their three children:  Arabella Rose , 12;  Joseph Frederick , 10; and  Theodore James , 7.

Last February, on what would have been Ivana's 74th birthday, Ivanka shared a  carousel of photos of her mother on Instagram , calling her "the funniest, smartest and most glamorous woman I knew."

"She lived each minute of her life to the absolute fullest. I miss the joy she brought into our lives and into the lives of so many," she captioned the photos. "Happy Birthday, Mama. Love you and miss you every day. xx"

While often remembered as a socialite, Ivana was also a successful  businesswoman , an athlete, a writer, a clothing and jewelry designer, and above all, a proud mother adored by her children.

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Throughout his campaign for president, Donald Trump repeatedly denied having anything to do with Russia. “I have nothing to do with Russia, nothing to do, I never met Putin, I have nothing to do with Russia whatsoever,” he said during an interview in July 2016. He was even more emphatic on Twitter: “For the record, I have ZERO investments in Russia.” It was obvious, relatively early on, that this wasn’t, strictly speaking, true. The president’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., bragged in 2008 that “Russians make up a pretty disproportionate cross-section of a lot of our assets. We see a lot of money pouring in from Russia.” And if the Trump Organization didn’t have actual investments inside Russia, it’s not because they didn’t try.

As The Washington Post reported on Sunday, the Trump Organization was actively pursuing real-estate opportunities in Russia in late 2015 and early 2016 to build a Trump Tower in Moscow. The project was spearheaded by Russian-born developer and longtime Trump associate Felix Sater (who helped build Trump SoHo) and Michael Cohen, an executive vice president at the Trump Organization and the president’s longtime personal attorney. The deal never came to fruition. But, as the Post reports, citing newly surfaced records reviewed by Trump Organization lawyers and several people familiar with the proposal, negotiations were ongoing throughout much of Trump’s presidential campaign:

As part of the discussions, a Russian-born real estate developer urged Trump to come to Moscow to tout the proposal and suggested that he could get President Vladimir Putin to say “great things” about Trump, according to several people who have been briefed on his correspondence.
The developer, Felix Sater, predicted in a November 2015 email that he and Trump Organization leaders would soon be celebrating—both one of the biggest residential projects in real estate history and Donald Trump’s election as president, according to two of the people with knowledge of the exchange.
Sater wrote to Trump Organization Executive Vice President Michael Cohen “something to the effect of, ‘Can you believe two guys from Brooklyn are going to elect a president?’ ” said one person briefed on the email exchange. Sater emigrated from what was then the Soviet Union when he was 6 and grew up in Brooklyn.

(The White House declined to comment while Sater did not respond to the Post ’s request for comment.)

On Monday, The New York Times followed up on the Post report, releasing portions of the e-mail exchanges between Sater and Cohen, which the Trump Organization turned over to Congressional investigators . “I arranged for Ivanka [Trump] to sit in Putin’s private chair at his desk and office in the Kremlin. I will get Putin on this program and we will get Donald elected,” Sater wrote in an e-mail to Cohen on November 3, 2015, the Times reports. “I know how to play it and we will get this done. Buddy our boy can become president of the USA and we can engineer it. I will get all of Putin’s team to buy in on this,” he continued.

There is no evidence that Sater fulfilled the promises he outlined in his correspondence. “He has sometimes used colorful language,” Cohen said in a statement to the Times , describing Sater as “prone to ‘salesmanship.’” Cohen added that he “ultimately determined that the proposal was not feasible and never agreed to make a trip to Russia.” In a statement, Ivanka Trump said she received “a brief tour of Red Square and the Kremlin” but that she never met Putin during the 2006 trip to which Sater alluded. She did not clarify whether she sat in the Russian president’s chair.

According to individuals briefed on the deal who spoke with the Post, the Trump Tower Moscow deal began in earnest in September 2015 only to be abandoned in January 2016, just prior to the start of the Republican primaries but after the New York real-estate company signed a letter of intent with investors. Earlier this month, Sater confirmed the deal to Talking Points Memo, but said Trump’s candidacy derailed the Moscow plans. “Once the campaign was really going-going, it was obvious there were going to be no deals internationally,” Sater said. “We were still working on it, doing something with it, November-December.”

In a subsequent article on Monday, the Post reported that Cohen e-mailed Dmitry Peskov , Putin’s personal assistant, in an attempt to reboot the stalled development deal, according to e-mails provided to congressional investigators. Per the Post :

“Over the past few months I have been working with a company based in Russia regarding the development of a Trump Tower - Moscow project in Moscow City,” Cohen wrote Peskov, according to a person familiar with the email. “Without getting into lengthy specifics. the communication between our two sides has stalled.”

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“As this project is too important, I am hereby requesting your assistance. I respectfully request someone, preferably you, contact me so that I might discuss the specifics as well as arranging meetings with the appropriate individuals. I thank you in advance for your assistance and look forward to hearing from you soon,” Cohen wrote.

In a statement to the Post , Cohen downplayed the importance of the deal as “simply one of many development opportunities that the Trump Organization considered and ultimately rejected.” He also dismissed the idea that it was in any way tied to Trump’s presidential bid, telling Congress in a statement Monday, “The decision to pursue the proposal initially, and later to abandon it were unrelated to the Donald J. Trump for President Campaign.” He added that he only sent the e-mail to Peskov at the urging of Sater and does not remember receiving a response. But he did also note that he discussed the Trump Tower Moscow deal with Trump on three occasions and said the president signed the letter of intent in 2015, according to an ABC News report .

The revelation that the Trump Organization reportedly sought a massive commercial real-estate deal in Moscow during the campaign may help explain why Trump was so passionate about thawing relations between the United States and Russia. Trump praised Putin on several occasions while his real-estate company was reportedly seeking the Moscow deal. During an interview with Morning Joe on December 18, 2015, Trump dismissed the allegations that Putin killed journalists who criticized him while simultaneously taking a swipe at Barack Obama . “He’s running his country and at least he is a leader, unlike what we have in this country,” Trump told host Joe Scarborough . He defended the Russian president again, two days later, in an interview with ABC’s Meet the Press .

The e-mails also belie repeated denials by both Trump and his legal team that he had any business interests in Russia. In August 2016, Alan Garten the general counsel of the Trump Organization, told Politico that the company was not seeking deals in Russia and said Sater was not advising the real-estate company. Both statements may have been true at the time, but not several months earlier. (In a statement to the Times on Monday, the Trump Organization wrote, “To be clear, the Trump Organization has never had any real estate holdings or interests in Russia.”)

The Post report is the latest in a string of recent revelations that have thrown light on Trump’s murky relationship with Russia and Russian business interests. Last week, CNN reported that Rick Dearborn, a former Trump campaign adviser who is now Trump’s deputy chief of staff, sent an e-mail informing senior Trump campaign staffers that an individual sought to arrange a meeting between the presidential candidate and Russian President Vladimir Putin. An earlier report revealed that a low-level Trump campaign staffer, George Papadopoulous, also tried to arrange a similar meeting. Both stories follow Trump Jr.’s admission last month that he, Paul Manafort, and Jared Kushner met with a Russian lawyer at Trump Tower last summer after being promised damaging information about Hillary Clinton as part of a Russian government effort to assist their campaign.

Cohen and Sater have been recurring figures in the Russian melodrama currently roiling Capitol Hill. In February, The New York Times reported that Cohen and Sater met with Andrii Artemenko, a member of the Ukrainian parliament, to discuss a proposal outlining how Trump could lift U.S. sanctions against Moscow. According to the Times, Cohen told the outlet that he hand-delivered the “peace plan” to then National Security Adviser Mike Flynn. (Cohen later denied that he delivered it to the former general.)

Sater, who pleaded guilty for his involvement in a Mafia-related stock manipulation scheme in 1998, has also worked closely with Trump on a number of real-estate deals in the past, including the controversial Trump SoHo development. He has also been among the president’s most earnest defenders, though the White House might have preferred he stay quiet. “The next three years of hearings about Trump and Russia will yield absolutely nothing. I know the man, they didn’t collude,” he told New York magazine in an interview earlier this month. “Did a bunch of meetings happen? Absolutely. The people on the Trump team who had any access to the Russians wanted to be first in and be the guys that ran the whole détente thing. Michael Flynn wanted to be the détente guy, and then [Paul] Manafort, I’m sure, wanted to be the détente guy. Shit, I wanted to be the détente guy, why not? But was it really a conspiracy between Putin and Donald to get him elected? A little bit of a stretch.”

This article has been updated.

Abigail Tracy

National political reporter.

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Trump’s Final Hours in Office Were Consumed With Fury at Snoop Dogg

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In the final three days of his presidency, Donald Trump had something weighing heavily on his mind, causing him to reverse decisions rapidly as he swore angrily in the White House .

The source of the then-outgoing president’s anger had nothing to do with his failed attempts to subvert the 2020 election results, or the incoming president, Joe Biden. It was about Snoop Dogg , the man this magazine once dubbed “ America’s Most Lovable Pimp .”

While the famous rapper and actor recently made headlines discussing his “love and respect” for the ex-president, he bitterly feuded with Trump early on in his presidency, before his feelings softened. In late 2020 and early 2021, Snoop Dogg secretly worked to influence the White House on executive clemency for federal prisoners — including for the rapper’s close friend and Death Row Records figure, Michael “Harry-O” Harris.

“Well, fuck him,” Trump moaned about Snoop Dogg in the closing days of his term, according to a former administration official and another person who heard him say it.

With just hours left before Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s renewed fury at the rapper set off a frenzied effort both in and outside of the White House to convince Trump that Snoop Dogg wasn’t, in fact, mad at him anymore. The effort lasted almost literally until the final minute of the presidency. Failure to move Trump would have cost the freedom of one of the co-founders of the legendary hip-hop record label Death Row Records, who at the time had been behind bars for three decades.

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These traits, which Trump has kept at the fore in times of historic crises and even during presidential deliberations on airstrikes and warfare , have long defined his public life, and will surely help define what awaits the country if he returns to the Oval Office in 2025 .

Near the end of Trump’s administration, Snoop Dogg and several others had been working diligently behind the scenes for weeks to secure a presidential commutation for Death Row Records co-founder and ex-kingpin Harry-O. The inmate had previously and repeatedly failed to win an early release, after being locked up for decades on cocaine-trafficking-related and attempted murder charges.

“Over 30 years ago, I was part of the problem. However, over the years I have repeatedly proven myself to be part of the solution,” Harris told the Daily Mail in 2019. Harris was imprisoned at the Federal Correctional Institution Lompoc, the site of a much-publicized Covid-19 outbreak in 2020, where he was scheduled for release in late 2028 .

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On the afternoon of Jan. 18, 2021, this reporter detailed the secret clemency campaign at The Daily Beast .

“Snoop brought this case to me, and I brought Alice Johnson [who was pardoned by Trump] on board to help me with it, and she brought it to the West Wing,” activist Weldon Angelos, formerly a music producer and an ex-federal prisoner who received his own pardon from Trump, told The Daily Beast . “In the past, the president has given her the ability to select cases. And she doesn’t get [clemency for] all of them … but with Mr. Harris, she is not taking no for an answer.”

Johnson said at the time: “The president knows about it. I’ve spoken with Ivanka [Trump] and I’ve spoken with Jared [Kushner], and I’ve been told that President Trump is aware of the case and has been reviewing it. I’ve spoken to [White House chief of staff] Mark Meadows about it, and he said he’d take a look at it.”

She very nearly got “no” for an answer.

The Daily Beast article included a short contextual reference about how Snoop Dogg “has never hid his negative opinions about Trump,” reading:

“I don’t give a fuck, I tell ’em straight up, motherfucker: If you like that nigga, you motherfuckin’ racist,” Snoop Dogg said about Trump, his MAGA fans, and the president’s pal Kanye West in 2018. “Fuck you and fuck him. Now what?” In March 2017, Trump had tweeted, “Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time!” (Trump was referring to a music video — in which Snoop aims a toy gun at a clown who looks like the 45th U.S. president — that had clearly gotten the leader of the free world worked up.)

This immediately enraged the Republican president, who had apparently forgotten about the depths of Snoop Dogg’s past hatred. 

Suddenly, Trump didn’t feel the rapper deserved an act of kindness or mercy. The clemency paperwork for Harris had already been drafted, and his name was on the roster of expected pardons and commutations that the White House planned to announce the day of Biden’s inauguration.

On Jan. 18, 2021, Trump instructed aides to remove Harris’ name from the list and to junk his paperwork, in order to punish Snoop Dogg, two former administration officials and another two sources familiar with the matter say.

It didn’t take long for word to leak out that Harris’ release was imperiled, and for such a monumentally petty reason. Criminal-justice reform advocates, who had been working the Trump administration for pardons and commutations for Harris and numerous others, began frantically calling in favors and contacting senior Trump aides and family members, hoping to convince the outgoing president that Snoop Dogg didn’t loathe him anymore. In fact, Snoop, who once roasted Trump at a Comedy Central event in 2011, had warmed to him quite a bit, in part due to some of Trump’s commutations and pardons .

This set off a mad dash — “it was chaos,” says a former White House official — to rescue the Harry-O clemency. 

Some activists contacted those who knew Snoop Dogg, warning that Trump’s temper had stalled, and maybe killed, Harris’ chances at clemency on the last day of Trump’s White House term. Ideas that were kicked around included asking Snoop Dogg to post something positive about Trump on Twitter or Instagram. Maybe he could profusely apologize to the then-president, publicly or in private? Something — anything — to appease the temperamental politician and former game-show host.

No one close to the rapper thought any of that was likely or doable. Snoop Dogg didn’t want to feud with Trump any longer, but he didn’t want to come off as a toady, either. There was, however, a Plan B. 

“I was aware that the [ Daily Beast ] article caused a problem for Mr. Harris’ clemency petition, and I was asked by someone close to the White House to send a clip of a previously recorded message from Snoop where he commended Trump’s efforts on criminal justice reform,” Angelos confirmed to Rolling Stone . “The campaign to free Harry-O was recorded for documentary purposes.”

Trump was indeed shown the documentary footage, according to a source with direct knowledge of the matter, and a handful of senior administration officials who still had Trump’s ear and trust after the Jan. 6 riot personally vouched for Harris and Snoop in the hectic final moments of Trump’s term.

The president said he appreciated what he saw as Snoop Dogg’s sincerity and plaudits, the source with direct knowledge and a former Trump official say. About 24 hours before he was to step down from power, Trump instructed his advisers to re-add Harris’ name to the pardon and commutations list.

Before the evening of Jan. 19, 2021, Harris had gotten word that, very soon, he’d be a free man — and Snoop Dogg was celebrating .

Shortly after midnight on the last day of Trump’s term, his White House staff publicly announced a list of nearly 150 names for commutations and federal pardons. Among those listed were Harris (who received a commuted sentence), Trump’s former top strategist and White House adviser Steve Bannon, rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black , and former prominent Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy . The list was the culmination of a massive clemency push , which often benefited powerful figures who aggressively leveraged their personal connections to Trump and his inner sanctum.

Now, more than three years later, Snoop Dogg hasn’t endorsed Trump 2024, and those close to him say they would be stunned if he ever did. But in an interview published last month by London’s Sunday Times , the rapper declared: “I have nothing but love and respect for Donald Trump.”

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Late last month, the Trump campaign blasted out an email to the media flagging some “Important Articles and Posts from President Trump.” The message included a line on how “Snoop Dogg Now Says He Has ‘Nothing But Love and Respect’ for Donald Trump” — sandwiched between notes such as “Trump Leading Biden by More Than He Ever Has Before” and “15 Facts About E. Jean Carroll ’s [Sexual Assault] Allegations Against Trump the Media Don’t Want You to Know.”

Trump and his campaign staff apparently liked Snoop’s praise so much that two days later they sent another press blast about how “Snoop Dogg Vows ‘Nothing but Love and Respect’ for Donald Trump.”

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Trump’s Lawyer Said There Were “No Plans” For Trump Tower Moscow. Here They Are.

Rudy Giuliani claims the Moscow tower was barely more than a notion. “There were no drafts. Nothing in the file.” Documents obtained by BuzzFeed News tell a different story.

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The plan was dazzling: a glass skyscraper that would stretch higher than any other building in Europe, offering ultra-luxury residences and hotel rooms and bearing a famous name. Trump Tower Moscow, conceived as a partnership between Donald Trump ’s company and a Russian real estate developer, looked likely to yield profits in excess of $300 million .

The tower was never built, but it has become a focal point of the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller into Trump’s relationship with Russia in the lead-up to his presidency.

The president and his representatives have dismissed the project as little more than a notion — a rough plan led by Trump’s then-lawyer, Michael Cohen, and his associate Felix Sater, of which Trump and his family said they were only loosely aware as the election campaign gathered pace.

On Monday, his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani , said “the proposal was in the earliest stage,” and he went on to tell the New Yorker that “no plans were ever made. There were no drafts. Nothing in the file.”

However, hundreds of pages of business documents, emails, text messages, and architectural plans, obtained by BuzzFeed News over a year of reporting, tell a very different story. Trump Tower Moscow was a richly imagined vision of upscale splendor on the banks of the Moscow River.

A long-held dream

Trump had for 30 years tried to extend his real estate empire to Moscow. He even wrote about it in his book The Art of the Deal . But he never found the right opportunity — until 2013, when he visited Russia to host the Miss Universe pageant. “TRUMP TOWER-MOSCOW is next,” he tweeted after the event.

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Two years later, a vision had emerged. Trump Tower Moscow was to be much more than just another upscale apartment building. It was to be a vast — and vastly lucrative — undertaking that would elevate the Russian capital’s skyline and extend the perimeter of the New York developer’s influence.

By September 2015, a New York architect had completed plans for a bold glass obelisk 100 stories high, to be topped by a gleaming, cut-diamond–like shape emblazoned on multiple sides with the Trump logo.

“The building design you sent over is very interesting,” the Russian real estate developer Andrey Rozov wrote to Cohen in September 2015, “and will be an architectural and luxury triumph. I believe the tallest building in Europe should be in Moscow, and I am prepared to build it.”

“First class luxury”

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According to a finalized letter of intent signed by Donald Trump on Oct. 28, 2015, the tower would have “approximately 250 first class, luxury residential condominiums.”

It would be located in Moscow City, a former industrial complex outside of the city center that has since been converted into an ambitious commercial district clustered with several of the tallest skyscrapers in Europe.

Its hotel portion would feature “approximately 15 floors” and contain “not fewer than 150 hotel rooms,” the letter of intent stated. The building would feature a luxury spa and fitness center, a commercial component “consistent with the overall luxury level of the Property,” and an office space “consistent with Class A luxury office properties,” as well as “luxury” parking.

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An aerial view of the proposed development site (lower left).

As with most of Trump’s other big real estate ventures, the plan was for a local developer — Rozov — to build Trump Tower Moscow. Trump’s team would provide the glittering name and would manage the building’s operations, such as restaurants and bars.

The Trump team would also have the option to “brand all or any portion of the spa or fitness facilities” as “The Spa By Ivanka Trump ,” according to the plans. If they exercised that option, Ivanka or one of her representatives would choose all interior design elements for the spa and health club.

Other Spas by Ivanka Trump offer a clue as to what it might have looked like. At the Trump International Hotel in Washington, DC, the 10,000-square-foot spa and fitness center offers “a carefully orchestrated spa experience” designed to produce “a fresh, authentic and purposeful visit.” Guests are invited to enjoy “an immersion lounge, reflective of local culture and craftsmanship,” specialized massage treatments called “curated rituals,” “aspirational quotes,” a Himalayan salt chamber, a waterfall, and hallways, curtains, and floors in her signature color of rose gold.

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The top residence of the Moscow tower, enjoying a view without equal in all the continent, was to be a gleaming penthouse, the most luxurious property in a seriously luxurious building.

A show-stopping apartment like that could have been marketed for $50 million. But as BuzzFeed News reported in November, Trump’s fixers planned not to sell it — but to give it away for free, to none other than Vladimir Putin himself. Two US law enforcement officials confirmed that Cohen discussed the idea with an aide to Putin’s press secretary .

The hope was that the lavish gift would help grease the wheels, and in the process entice more Russian elites to move in. “My idea was to give a $50 million penthouse to Putin and charge $250 million more for the rest of the units,” Felix Sater told BuzzFeed News in November. “All the oligarchs would line up to live in the same building as Putin.”

The Oct. 28 letter of intent, signed by Trump and Rozov.

An eye on the bottom line

The plans included detailed financial arrangements. According to the signed letter of intent, Trump’s company would get a $4 million up-front payment — a quarter when the licensing agreement was executed, another quarter when they finalized a location for the tower, and the other half either a week before the project’s groundbreaking or two years after the execution of the licensing agreement, whichever came first.

From there on out, Trump’s company would also get a cut of all the condominium sales at the tower, the agreement stated. From the total selling price of each unit, his company would get 5% for sales up to $100 million, 4% for the next bracket up to $250 million, 3% for anything between that and $500 million, 2% for anything up to $1 billion, and thereafter, a solid cut of 1%. For commercial and office spaces, it would get a 3% cut of all the rent. It’d get another 3% of sales on food and beverages, spa and fitness center use, and conference fees.

The deal also stipulated how much Trump’s management company would get paid for running operations at Trump Tower Moscow over 25 years. For the first five years, it would get 3% of all revenue generated by operating the hotel per month. Over the next two decades, it’d receive a flat 4%. In addition, the management company would also receive a monthly “incentive fee” — an additional 20% of the gross operating profit for the hotel — subject to annual negotiations.

The Trump Organization did not respond to a request for comment on this story, nor did Giuliani, Rozov, Ivanka Trump, or the White House. A spokesperson for the special counsel declined to comment.

Frequent updates

Trump has many times denied having any business interests in Russia. But last year, BuzzFeed News revealed that negotiations over the tower lasted at least through June 2016, just a few weeks before Trump clinched the Republican nomination. The special counsel has since confirmed this fact, saying in a court filing that Cohen discussed the plan multiple times with the Trump Organization and asked Trump and a senior campaign staffer about traveling to Russia.

Last November , Cohen pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about when the deal ended. Trump then struck a new note, defending his involvement in the Moscow project during the election: “There was a good chance that I wouldn’t have won,” he told reporters , “in which case I would have gotten back into the business, and why should I lose lots of opportunities?”

BuzzFeed News reported on Thursday that Trump received at least 10 updates about the plans, and then directed Cohen to lie to Congress about when those negotiations ended in order to obscure his own involvement. Mueller’s office issued a statement Friday saying that “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate.” BuzzFeed News stands by its story and the two law enforcement sources who informed it.

Giuliani has since acknowledged the plan went on longer than previously stated. “It’s our understanding that it — that they went on throughout 2016,” Giuliani told CNN . “Weren’t a lot of them, but there were conversations. Can’t be sure of the exact date. But the president can remember having conversations with him about it.”

He then told the New York Times that Trump remembers discussing the project with Cohen up until November 2016, when Trump was elected president. “It was all going from the day I announced to the day I won,” Trump said, according to Giuliani.

He has since backtracked , stating that his comments on Trump Tower Moscow were “hypothetical and not based on conversations I had with the president.”

A great lifetime goal

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Sadly for luxury-loving Muscovites, the tower project never came to be. It’s not entirely clear why the deal fell through, but today on the bend of the Moscow River, on the edge of the Presnensky District and only a few miles from the Kremlin, there is no Ivanka-branded salt chamber and no Trump-approved luxury parking.

By the time Donald Trump signed the project’s letter of intent, he was four months into his presidential campaign — running for the highest office in America while conducting private business negotiations with a hostile nation.

Today that choice has produced controversy and possible legal risk. But back then, it seemed to be pure upside.

“Let’s make this happen and build a Trump Moscow,” Sater wrote to Cohen shortly beforehand. “And possibly fix relations between the countries by showing everyone that commerce & business are much better and more practical than politics. … Help world peace and make a lot of money, I would say that’s a great lifetime goal for us to go after.”

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Anthony Cormier, Jason Leopold, Tanya Kozyreva, and Chris Geidner contributed to this story.

Ivanka Trump's spotty memory called 'suspect' by judge in fraud trial verdict, even though she was dismissed from the case

  • Justice Arthur Engoron devotes more than a page of his 92-page fraud verdict to Ivanka Trump .
  • No longer a defendant, she still testified at trial as her father's top loan negotiator. 
  • In his verdict, Engoron refers to Ivanka Trump's "inconsistent recall," calling it "suspect."

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As the Trump fraud trial's only former defendant, Ivanka Trump is long gone from the case.

But she was not forgotten by the judge, who on Friday said her spotty memory while testifying on her family's behalf was "suspect."

"Ivanka Trump was a thoughtful, articulate, and poised witness," wrote New York Supreme Court Justice Arthur Engoron , in the 92-page verdict that caps the former president's three-month civil fraud trial.

The $364 million verdict bans her father from running any New York business, including Trump Organization, for three years; her two oldest brothers were hit with two-year bans.

"But the court found her inconsistent recall, depending on whether she was questioned by OAG or the defense, suspect," Engoron wrote, referring to the New York office of the attorney general by its acronym.

Ivanka Trump had been named as a defendant in New York Attorney General Letitia James' original 2022 civil lawsuit, which alleged that she, Donald Trump, Jr., and Eric Trump conspired with their father to fraudulently hike his net worth in a decade of annual financial statements.

Donald Trump's three oldest children once worked together at the Trump Organization. Wharton-educated Ivanka was the heaviest lifter of the siblings.

Once Trump's top loan negotiator, Ivanka used her father's wildly inflated net-worth statements to fraudulently secure $400 million in Trump Organization loans from Deutsche Bank, the AG had alleged, back when she was still a defendant.

She was dismissed from the case last summer, on statute of limitation grounds.

But after several skirmishes over subpoena compliance , Trump's eldest daughter was compelled to take the witness stand, on November 8, 2023.

Her tone cheerful, Ivanka Trump testified she had a great relationship with Deutsche Bank, the bank that state officials say her father tricked out of some $168 million in loan-interest savings.

On Friday, Engoron spent a page-and-a-half of his verdict detailing point after point in her testimony where she implausibly could not remember major discussions and transactions with bankers.

As her father's top loan negotiator, Ivanka Trump had secured more than $400 million in Deutsche Bank loans used to develop his Miami golf club, his tower in Chicago, and his luxury hotel in Washington, DC.

The loans were based on annual financial statements that fraudulently inflated Trump's net worth by more than $2 billion a year, the judge said in a pre-trial ruling from back in September.

The judge cited Ivanka's repeated memory lapses on the witness stand

At trial, Ivanka Trump testified she could not remember an extended discussion with Deutsche Bank from 2011, concerning the financing for the Trump National Doral golf resort in Miami.

"Despite being presented with ample emails and other documentary evidence demonstrating the critical role she played in the negotiation, Ms. Trump professed to have no memory of any of the events of the loan negotiation or the agreed upon terms," Engoron wrote.

There were similar witness-stand memory lapses when she was asked about extended loan negotiations with the bank in 2016.

"Ivanka Trump again denied any recollection of these events, although she conceded she had no reason to believe that she did not send or receive the emails with which she was confronted," Engoron wrote.

Neither could she remember anything about the content of emailed negotiations from 2012, involving a loan for her father's Trump Tower in Chicago.

Ivanka Trump also secured a $170 million Deutsche Bank loan that financed her father's conversion of the Old Post Office property in Washington, DC, into the Trump International Hotel , a magnet for lobbyists during the Trump administration.

Like her two eldest brothers, she received a $4 million profit from the hotel's sale in 2022.

"I don't remember everything," she testified of the financing negotiations.

"She consistently denied recalling the contents of documentary evidence that confirmed that she actively participated in events, even after she was confronted with the evidence," Engoron wrote of Ivanka Trump's Old Post Office testimony.

"Notably, on cross-examination by defendants' counsel, Ms. Trump suddenly and vividly recalled details of the projects," Engoron noted.

The case had hit Ivanka Trump close to home. It mentioned a Trump Park Avenue penthouse that was leased at a below-market rent to Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner in 2011.

The attorney general's office alleged that one of Trump's fraudulent acts involved valuing the Manhattan penthouse at $8.5 million when he offered his daughter and son-in-law an option to purchase the unit.

Trump turned around and valued the same penthouse at more than $20 million in net-worth statements he issued to banks for the years 2011 and 2012.

In cutting her loose from the case in June, a Manhattan appellate court noted that she had stopped working for the Trump Organization in January of 2017, when she joined the Trump administration .

Eric Trump and Donald Trump, Jr., by contrast, were running the Trump Organization day to day, while their father was in the White House.

Donald Trump transferred the company to a revocable trust when he left for DC, though he remained involved while president. He never stopped being the company's sole beneficial owner, trial testimony showed.

A Business Insider analysis found that the law firms representing Ivanka Trump in the New York attorney general lawsuit collectively received $2.3 million from PACs controlled by her father.

It's not clear why the firms received political donor money. Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were together worth an estimated $1 billion during the Trump administration, according to their financial disclosures.

A lawyer for Ivanka Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment on this story.

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Melania Trump's contentious relationship with her stepdaughter, Ivanka Trump, was extensively covered during Donald Trump's four-year administration. White House insiders revealed that they were constantly jockeying for press attention and the first lady position , and now, an upcoming book by Katie Rogers, American Woman: The Transformation of the Modern First Lady, from Hillary Clinton to Jill Biden , is examining their frosty friendship even further. 

Melania's decision to stay in New York while her son, Barron, completed his school year is likely where the war began. It gave Ivanka time to establish her unpaid adviser role while taking on a few first lady duties for herself which had the full support of her dad. According to an excerpt obtained by Radar Online , Melania called Ivanka "The Princess" behind her back - there was no love lost between the two women.

While they did their best to steer clear of each other once Melania moved to Washington, D.C., they were constantly " locked in a quiet competition for press coverage ." The book claims that the former first lady was "obsessed" with how she was perceived by the media and the public, researching "every mention of her name in the press and often trawled Twitter to see what the press, her critics, and her supporters were saying about her."

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff detailed similar allegations in her 2020 book, Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady. "Melania lived in New York. She didn't appear in public or release statements to the press. Her social media was quiet," Wolkoff wrote. " Ivanka rushed in to fill the void as ‘acting' First Lady, issuing constant social media posts and press releases galore about her involvement with women's issues, lobbying Daddy about climate change (alas, unsuccessfully), and attending every meeting she could slink her way into."

Michael Schmidt's book, Donald Trump v. The United States, also called out Ivanka for trying to push out Melania and become the first lady in "ceremonial ways." The feud required the real first lady to establish "firm boundaries" with Ivanka once she landed in the White House. It doesn't sound like it was an easy relationship, whatsoever, and the two women still don't appear to be close over three years after they left Washington, D.C.

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