Rich Daddies, Wild Parties: Tiffany Trump's

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Rich daddies, wild parties: Tiffany Trump’s set

Eclips ed by her older siblings, Donald’s youn ger daughter is better known for her so cial life, says Barbara McMahon

n their offices on the 25th floor Asthe daughter of a billionaire, and dearly for his freedom. Although the of Trump Tower in Manhattan, a well-known social butterfly, she is terms were not disclosed, Ivana played Donald Trump’s three eldest accustomed to private air travel, luxury herself in the film The First Wives children are hard at work as part holidays and high society partying Club, advising other cuckolded wives: of their father’s transition team. with other rich kids in hotspots such “Don’t get mad, get everything.” Among the president-elect’s as the Hamptons. Now those activities, Tiffany was born in New York in Imost trusted advisers, Donald Jr, and the people she mingles with, will October 1993, and her parents married Eric and Ivanka Trump are being be put under a microscope. two months later in a showy wedding allowed to weigh in on who will be She must also find a career and at the Plaza Hotel. The bride wore an the key players in his administration. conduct her personal life while living off-the-shoulder Carolina Herrera Such lofty responsibility has not been outside the protective confines of the gown and a tiara said to be worth $2 extended to Trump’s fourth child, White House. Although she was million. The couple separated in 1997 23-year-old Tiffany, who finds herself touchingly eager to support her father and divorced in 1999. “You obviously at a loose end now that the US election on the campaign trail, the contentious have your differences in how you look campaign is over. campaign has been bruising to a at the world and how you want to While her half-siblings have seats at daughter thrown in at the political move forward in raising your the power table — along with Ivanka’s deep end and she still has a lot to children,” Maples recalled recently. husband, the real estate mogul Jared learn. Little wonder she has that After the marriage ended, mother Kushner — she has no obvious role. rabbit-caught-in-the-headlights look and daughter moved to Los Angeles So at Trump’s recent tête-à-tête with as she ponders what is ahead when and Maples, who has an interest in the president, it was Kushner who was her father takes over the Oval Office. spiritualism and alternative health photographed strolling in the White Life for her is never going to be treatments, brought up her daughter House Rose Garden with Barack the same again. almost single-handedly. “Her daddy is Obama’s chief of staff, whereas when Tiffany — yes, she was named after a good provider with education but he Tiffanywas papped, it was while Tiffany & Co, the store next to the wasn’t able to be there with day-to-day popping into her local Starbucks for 58-storey skyscraper of glass and black skills as a parent. He loves his kids. a green smoothie, her new secret steel on Fifth Avenue that is Trump There’s no doubt. But everything was service detail in tow. Tower — is the daughter of Marla a bit of a negotiation,” Maples told It is never easy being the child of Maples, who was an aspiring model People magazine. Nevertheless, the a president and Tiffany — of all the and actress when she met Donald little girl idolised her father, who Trump offspring — is in a uniquely Trump in 1989. Trump was still married remained in New York. tricky position. The unwritten rule to his first wife, Ivana, the mother of After a private school education, in Washington is that presidential Donald Jr, Eric and Ivanka. The brash Tiffany flirted with the idea of being children are off limits. This will property mogul and the blonde a singer. At the age of 17, she recorded certainly apply to ten-year-old Barron “Georgia peach” with a sexy Southern a forgettable record called Like a Bird. Trump who, as a minor, will move into drawl embarked on a passionate affair. Giving up on showbusiness, she went the White House in January with his Ivana found out about the romance on to the University of Pennsylvania, her father and mother, Melania. the ski slopes of Aspen, Colorado, a father’s alma mater, to study for a However, the situation is different year later when her husband’s mistress degree in sociology and urban studies. for adult presidential progeny. While confronted her and said: “I’m Marla. “She got all As so we’re very proud Tiffany’s older half-siblings all have I love Donald. Do you?” of Tiffany,” Trump boasted after settled married lives, will run their Ivana retained divorce lawyers to attending her graduation. father’s property business while he is contest a prenuptial agreement that As a daughter of one of America’s in power and have already inserted would have entitled her to only $25 richest men, Tiffany has a gang themselves into the political discourse, million, and the divorce was settled in of friends with similarly wealthy Tiffanyis a bit of a wild card. 1992, with Trump reportedly paying backgrounds. She has been named one

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the Rich KidsofInstagram — a group She has been called the all hischildren on the US of twentysomethings who flaunt their B-List Trump and the televisiont show Fox & Friends. lifestyle on social media — and has president-elect’s least ““I’m very proud of all my 469,000 followers (this is dwarfed by favourite daughter. children,” he said. “I’m very During Trump’s run proudp because Don and Eric her father’s audience of 3.9 million.) Her posse of moneyed friends for the presidency, p and Ivanka, and, you know, have also been called the Snap Pack Donald Jr, 38, Eric, 32, to a lesser extent because she and 35-year-old Ivanka jjust got out of school, out of and their partying on yachts, at were constantly by their college, but uh Tiffany, who has fashion shows and in nightclubs is father’s side. Tiffany, also been so terrific.” Ouch. orchestrated by Andrew Warren, though was brought in Like many children of successful an aspiring fashion designer and only during the later parents, Tiffany is keen to make her grandson of a textile tycoon. stages of the campaign. father proud and may still be finding This clique includes Kyra Kennedy, This feeling of being on her feet in the highly competitive the great-niece of John F Kennedy the edge must have been Trump clan. She has spoken about and daughter of Robert F Kennedy Jr; magnified when she was how her father motivated her when the hotel heir Barron Hilton; Princess left out of a biographical she was growing up. “His desire for Maria-Olympia of Greece; Gaia documentary of Trump excellence is contagious,” she said. Matisse, great-great-granddaughter shown at the convention. A career in fashion may beckon — of Henri Matisse; and Peter Brant, When she made her in 2011 her big sister secured Tiffany a the partying son of the model political debut at one coveted internship at Vogue, sparking Stephanie Seymour and industrialist of the rallies, however, her interest in the business. However, Peter M Brant. Many of them feature she was a hit. “Please according to the New York Post, her in the 21 Young New York Socialites excuse me if I’m a little mother was overheard at New York You Should Know piece that appeared nervous,” she said. “When New York Observer Fashion Week in September telling this summer in the I graduated college a couple friends that her daughter’s heart was — the newspaper that Jared Kushner of months ago, I never expected now set on becoming a lawyer. bought and transformed ten years to be here tonight addressing ago, at the age of 25. In the meantime Tiffany, who lives the nation. But, like my father, I never in an apartment near Trump Tower, On Tiffany’s Instagram account there are pictures of her in designer back down from challenges.” is spending time with her boyfriend swimwear dancing with pals in the Yet, bizarrely, she consented to be Ross Mechanic, a 21-year-old software grounds of luxurious properties but photographed for a New York Times engineering student whom she met there are also childhood pictures of Style article but refused to give an at university. He happens to be a interview, allowing her mother and Democrat but other than that seems her with her mother and father as well as shots from the Republican her half-sister to do the talking for to tick the right boxes for approval by convention, leading some to believe her. The writer Alessandra Stanley the Trump inner circle: in the summer, that her account has been “tidied up” commentedc on the mysterious he interned at Cadre, a property by the Trump team. Trump family dynamic and wrote investment start-up founded by In comparison, her half-sister later: “I’m sure she could Kushner and his brother Joshua. His have handled it. Yet father, Jonathan Mechanic, has rubbed Ivanka’s account leans in for that class of hard-working mothers who don’t the campaign was shoulders with the president-elect, balk at the price tag of luxury suggesting that who apparently once gave him a copy handbags but don’t brag about it somehow she couldn’t.” of his book Trump: The Art of The Deal either. More greige than glitz, it There was another with the hand-written inscription “To features photographs of her children, awkward moment the greatest real estate lawyer in the duringd the second world, best wishes, Donald.” immaculately dressed in neutral attire, presidentialp debate From being a billionaire’s daughter against the equally restrained wwhen Tiffany ducked with few cares in the world, Tiffany backdrop of her immaculately a kiss from her father will now spend her early adult life decorated Park Avenue apartment. anda the cringeworthy in the full glare of the presidential Perhaps because Tiffany was mmoment was caught spotlight. However, there are brought up on the west coast ono camera. compensations to being one of the and out of the spotlight, Trump also did not First Daughters. She will be able to she has always been helph matters when he invite all those party-loving friends sensitive to claims that she bungledb what was surely of hers to the White House. is the “forgotten” Trump. meantm to be praise for

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Some believe that her Instagram

account has been ‘tidied up’

Tiffany with her parents, Marla Maples and Donald Trump

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Tiffany with her boyfriend,Tiff Ross i h h b f i d Mechanic, and, top, with her father

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Tiffany Tr ump, second from right, partying in New York with fellow Snap Packers Reya Benitez, Gaia Matisse, Andrew Warren and Kyra Kennedy