Vanessa Trump

She grew up in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan[2] and attended The Dwight School,[3] a private school. Her late stepfather,[4] Charles Haydon, was a storied Manhattan lawyer whose clients included Marilyn Monroe and Broadway producer and real estate mogul Abe Hirschfeld.[5] Her mother is of Danish origin and her stepfather was Jewish.[6][7][8] Her maternal grandfather was Danish jazz musician Kai Ewans.[9][10][11][12]

She was a model in her teens and twenties[13] and was signed to Wilhelmina Models.[14]

As an actress, she appeared in the 2003 film Something's Gotta Give alongside Jack Nicholson and Diane Keaton.[15] She also appeared in a 2011 episode of The Apprentice (hosted by her father-in-law, Donald Trump) and Bret Michaels: Life as I Know It (2010).[14]

She and her sister Veronika opened a nightclub called 'Sessa' in the fall of 2003.[16]

She also released her own line of handbags called La Poshett, from 2010 to 2013.[17]

From 1998 to 2001, she dated Saudi prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud.[18] The relationship ended following the September 11 attacks when Khalid bin Bandar left the U.S. after his Saudi ambassador father, Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud, was suspected of having indirect ties to the Al Qaeda hijackers.[19]

Vanessa married Donald Trump Jr. on November 12, 2005. The wedding was held at the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida; the service was officiated by Trump Jr.'s aunt, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry.[20] Trump Jr. proposed to her with a $100,000 ring which he received as a gift from a jeweler in exchange for proposing to her in front of paparazzi outside of the jeweler's store in a New Jersey mall.[21] Together they have five children.[22] On March 15, 2018, it was reported that Vanessa filed for an uncontested divorce in court in New York; however, it was later revealed that the divorce was contested.[23][5][3] In July 2018 they resolved a child custody issue,[24] and the divorce was settled at the end of 2018.[25]