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  • 2016-10-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Donald Trump Divorced Ivana Because Her Breast Implants Felt Wrong? (en)
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  • An early October 2016 audio leak of Donald Trump's making lewd comments about women became a huge political controversy, and several subsequent articles suggested a callous Trump divorced his first wife, Ivana, wholly or in part because he didn't like her breast implants. A 1 October 2016 piece published in the Economist (its claim reiterated by the Washington Post) held that: The claim was not new in October 2016. In September and March 2016 respectively, the Atlantic and the National Review had referenced details of Trump's purported leaking lewd criticism of his then-wife's enhancements to New York tabloids: The rumor has taken several forms. For example, a profile of Ivana Trump published in March 2016 maintained that her former husband had insulted her breasts while he was speaking to a reporter: And back in 1990, Vanity Fair's coverage of the then-recent Trump split told a story not dissimilar from the one circulating more than a quarter-century later: Ultimately, the oft-repeated claim was two-fold: in part, it maintained that Trump was anywhere between recoiling from and publicly leaking disparaging comments about his own wife's augmented breasts to the New York tabloids. The second layer of the rumor held Trump separated from Ivana because her breasts were all wrong. In some versions, Trump is merely quoted as making the off-color remarks with no mention of how that information was obtained. In others, Trump is said to have openly made the comments in an interview with a tabloid. And in 2016, Trump's hostility at Ivana was escalated in the retelling to suggest he leaked the claim to the media, and split with her in part because of her breast implants. Seemingly missing from all iterations of this rumor about Ivana Trump's breast implants (and her ex-husband's opinion of them) are the basic who, what, when, where, and why aspects. The 1990 Vanity Fair did not allude to any source for the claim Trump had criticized those plastic breasts, merely including the line among several others describing the alleged mistreatment Mrs. Trump endured. Had the comments been contemporaneously published by any news outlets, that information likely would have been included in the Vanity Fair piece to bolster the impact and credibility of the sourceless anecdote. The claim has since skittered about like tumbleweeds, eventually attracting the details that Trump referenced Ivana's plastic breasts in an interview, then that he leaked the criticism to the media (for unknown reasons), then that he divorced Ivana over breast implants of which he did not approve. Although the rumor has circulated in various forms since 1990, we have been unable to locate any published interview in which Trump made any such comments, nor any tabloid material from around 1990 featuring criticism (by anyone) of Ivana Trump's implants. It's certainly possible that some version of the rumor may be true, but we haven't unearthed any proof that Donald Trump ever directly, indirectly, or privately made the comments attributed to him about Ivana Trump's breast implants, nor that he divorced her because of aesthetic differences about their suitability. (en)
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