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Post | 12/02/2008 11:45 am

Ivana Trump's Cougar Catastrophe: To Divorce New Husband

By The Staff at wowOwow.com
The 'dapper' groom © Getty Images

The groom was dressed in white tails. The guests were resplendent in pastels of every shade of pink and blue. The guest list included second-tier swells like Robin Leach, the ever-tanned George Hamilton, Rick and Kathy Hilton and the former Mrs. Sylvester Stallone, Brigitte Nielsen.  It was Palm Beach over the top — times ten.  

So it’s sad to learn that less than nine months later the bride, Ivana Trump, is cutting the umbilical cord on her fourth husband. The 59-year-old Trump and her 35-year-old Lothario husband Rossano Rubicondi are separating. Trump — who told wowOwow after her April marriage that she’d "rather be a nanny than a nursemaid," announced that she filed a legal separation agreement three months ago.

As wOw reported last month, there was much speculation that her aspiring-actor hubby had a tryst with a 20-something-year-old Argentinean model named Belen Rodriguez while filming a reality series called "La Sola dei Famosi," the Italian version of "Survivor." These are Trump’s first comments about her failed marriage; she kept quiet so she wouldn’t ruin Rubicondi’s chances as a contestant on the reality show.

As photos of her wedding at Mar-a-Lago emerged last spring, wOw spoke with the new Mrs. Rubicondi, and her advice for women facing challenges of their own was really quite touching and, for her, prescient:

When you can, pick yourself up and become your own best friend and booster. If a spa day can help heal your mind and let you put your best game face on — go do it! Get back into life and you’ll get back into love. It’s all about loving yourself and those around you. The need to feel alive is overwhelming; now is the time for YOUR new beginning.

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Elaine AL Meqdad

This has very little to do with age. This has everything to do with maturity levels.

By Elaine AL Meqdad on 12/02/2008 11:56 am
Sandbee (FB) 54

You got that right Elaine.

By Sandbee (FB) 54 on 12/02/2008 12:03 pm
Belinda .

Ivanna is a wonderful businesswoman…great head for business. However this is her 4th marriage. There is an old story about the guy that goes to his psychiatrist and complains “Doc, I’ve been married 9 times but I can’t seem to find the right woman….what’s wrong with the women I keep choosing? They are all crazy.”

Motto of the story is, if you’ve been married 9 times, chances are it’s not the women, it’s you. And so to is the case with Ivana. She makes horrible choices in terms of the men she picks for a husband. And this is just Belinda Joy showing her stuffy side again, but by the age of 59 she should have learned the life lessons she needs to guide her through the affairs of the heart. Learned to be more discerning when choosing a mate. There will be husband 5 and 6 I am sure, and chances are they will be younger and younger. My hope for her is that she will take some of her own advice she is quick to give to other women and apply it to her own life.

By Belinda . on 12/02/2008 12:06 pm
Brooklyn Gal

I remember seeing footage of this wedding—and over the top it was—and thinking “What is she thinking!!!?”

She seems to have a sense of self, and I just hope she didn’t feel she had to outdo The Donald. She has wonderful, talented children, a career and more money than she can burn. I think she will learn to find happiness within herself and better relationships without another marriage.

By Brooklyn Gal on 12/02/2008 12:31 pm
Melanie Waldrop

You know, I am a strong proponant of equal marital rights for my gay community because it is a civil rights issue NOT because I am a fan of the institution of marriage in and of itself…SO all I can say to Ivana is I am sorry for your romantic woes but remember the old saying: Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me! After FOUR marriages I’d advise you to approach future romances with your head as well as your heart, and leave the issue of marriage out of it!

By Melanie Waldrop on 12/02/2008 12:48 pm
Diana T

Geez! This woman(among many others) would do well to read David Richo’s book on Adult Relationships and to listen to the companion CDs. Besides, why do people think they have to marry after a certain age in order to have a good relationship with someone?

By Diana T on 12/02/2008 1:12 pm
Belinda .

I’m with you Diana. I’m baffled why women over a certain age still cling to the belief that they are not whole until they are married. As if their life is not complete until they can stand beside a man at a dinner party and identify him as “my husband ______” Very odd.

By Belinda . on 12/02/2008 2:05 pm
Diana T

The only thing I can think of, Belinda, is that it is just another vehicle for a grand party. Or…is it possible that they are narcissists, and they discover there is no one out there that can spend 24/7 “adoring” them as much as they do themselves?

By Diana T on 12/02/2008 2:18 pm
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She is an admirable and likable, if over the top, lady in many ways. Why any woman wants to marry their son is beyond me. And he just didn’t seem sincere when they married, his body language/facial expressions said to me “user.” The man was practically looking at his watch as if he wanted to escape. Like my former finance who called me from Hawaii on his honeymoon and said he made a terrible mistake and could we have ‘Taper-off sex”!!! Very amusing, but No!!!

By Delete This on 12/02/2008 1:18 pm
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Like my former finance.” Oops, my bad. That’s ‘fiancé’…..Freudian Slip?

By Delete This on 12/02/2008 1:26 pm
Sandbee (FB) 54

LOL, sounded like you had it about right the first time. And who needed him.

By Sandbee (FB) 54 on 12/02/2008 6:40 pm
Oh! My Favorite

I don’t believe that marriage has EVER been a boon to womankind! We women, all, are better off without it. These days we no longer even need the institution to protect us financially. But I know that so many woman still buy the “love” angle that traps a woman into servitude. They long for the “companionship and love” (and many other angles) which the male culture dangles before us as motivation to “take care of their lives”. Wise up, Ivana.

By Oh! My Favorite on 12/02/2008 11:15 pm