Ivana's alimony advice from movie trends as Trump-Melania divorce rumors fly: 'Don't get mad, get everything'
Old footage of Ivana Trump giving alimony advice has re-emerged amid Donald Trump and Melania’s divorce rumors. The clip is from the 1996 American comedy ‘The First Wives Club’, which also featured actresses Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton, and Bette Midler. In the video, Ivana was heard saying, “don't get mad, get everything.” At the time, Ivana told the actresses, “Ladies, you have to be strong and independent. And remember: Don't get mad. Get everything!"
You can watch the video here.
As per the film's description from Amazon Prime, Hawn, Keaton and Midler played the character of “mid-life Manhattanites” who come up with "a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts — in the wallet.” ‘The First Wives Club’ was Ivana’s first big-screen role, but her ex-husband did not like it. In 2017, the president told radio host Howard Stern about the film that “it does get out of control.”
Trump and Ivana got married in 1992, but after being together for over a decade they separated and the mother-of-three got a whopping of $14 million, a Greenwich, Connecticut mansion, and an apartment in Trump Plaza. She was also provided with access to the Mar-a-Lago mansion in Florida for one month out of the year when the couple finalized their divorce in 1992. At the time the POTUS used to pay around $650,000 yearly in child support for Don Jr, Eric and Ivanka.
Meanwhile, on Tuesday, November 17, Melania's Chief of Staff Stephanie Grisham slammed the media for saying the first couple will be splitting soon. “This question is pathetic and exactly why people no longer trust the mainstream media. No legitimate journalist would ask this,” Grisham said. Trump’s ex fixer Michael Cohen also added, “I don’t think Melania leaves Donald. She’s very willingly complicit in his schemes and holds his beliefs as her own. Those two deserve each other.”
For the past few months, rumors have been in the air that Trump and Melania would be leaving each other soon. Also, an ousted former aide, Omarosa Manigault Newman, claimed that the former model is "counting every minute" and waiting for January when Joe Biden will resume the office so she can divorce Trump. Lawyer Jacqueline Newman has anticipated that if Melania divorces Trump in the future, she would get a huge amount of $50 million. “In this situation, if she has $50 million, she can afford to buy something. But $50 million, while it’s definitely a lot of money, in New York City, for what she’s used to, she wouldn’t be able to replicate what she has now. He probably had a good sense of what kind of lifestyle they’d be living, so I would imagine the payout would be fairly generous,” she told Town & Country.
While speaking about their only son Barron’s custody, Newman added: “It's handled by the courts. Given what I’ve read in the tabloids, it doesn’t seem as if there’s going to be much question as to who the primary caretaker is. My guess is that she would get primary custodial rights and he would get access whenever he happens to be in town.”