NZ Herald
  • Home
  • Latest news
  • Herald NOW
  • Video
  • New Zealand
  • Sport
  • World
  • Business
  • Entertainment
  • Podcasts
  • Quizzes
  • Opinion
  • Lifestyle
  • Travel
  • Viva
  • Weather

Subscriptions

  • Herald Premium
  • Viva Premium
  • The Listener
  • BusinessDesk

Sections

  • Latest news
  • New Zealand
    • All New Zealand
    • Crime
    • Politics
    • Education
    • Open Justice
    • Scam Update
  • Herald NOW
  • On The Up
  • World
    • All World
    • Australia
    • Asia
    • UK
    • United States
    • Middle East
    • Europe
    • Pacific
  • Business
    • All Business
    • MarketsSharesCurrencyCommoditiesStock TakesCrypto
    • Markets with Madison
    • Media Insider
    • Business analysis
    • Personal financeKiwiSaverInterest ratesTaxInvestment
    • EconomyInflationGDPOfficial cash rateEmployment
    • Small business
    • Business reportsMood of the BoardroomProject AucklandSustainable business and financeCapital markets reportAgribusiness reportInfrastructure reportDynamic business
    • Deloitte Top 200 Awards
    • CompaniesAged CareAgribusinessAirlinesBanking and financeConstructionEnergyFreight and logisticsHealthcareManufacturingMedia and MarketingRetailTelecommunicationsTourism
  • Opinion
    • All Opinion
    • Analysis
    • Editorials
    • Business analysis
    • Premium opinion
    • Letters to the editor
  • Politics
  • Sport
    • All Sport
    • OlympicsParalympics
    • RugbySuper RugbyNPCAll BlacksBlack FernsRugby sevensSchool rugby
    • CricketBlack CapsWhite Ferns
    • Racing
    • NetballSilver Ferns
    • LeagueWarriorsNRL
    • FootballWellington PhoenixAuckland FCAll WhitesFootball FernsEnglish Premier League
    • GolfNZ Open
    • MotorsportFormula 1
    • Boxing
    • UFC
    • BasketballNBABreakersTall BlacksTall Ferns
    • Tennis
    • Cycling
    • Athletics
    • SailingAmerica's CupSailGP
    • Rowing
  • Lifestyle
    • All Lifestyle
    • Viva - Food, fashion & beauty
    • Society Insider
    • Royals
    • Sex & relationships
    • Food & drinkRecipesRecipe collectionsRestaurant reviewsRestaurant bookings
    • Health & wellbeing
    • Fashion & beauty
    • Pets & animals
    • The Selection - Shop the trendsShop fashionShop beautyShop entertainmentShop giftsShop home & living
    • Milford's Investing Place
  • Entertainment
    • All Entertainment
    • TV
    • MoviesMovie reviews
    • MusicMusic reviews
    • BooksBook reviews
    • Culture
    • ReviewsBook reviewsMovie reviewsMusic reviewsRestaurant reviews
  • Travel
    • All Travel
    • News
    • New ZealandNorthlandAucklandWellingtonCanterburyOtago / QueenstownNelson-TasmanBest NZ beaches
    • International travelAustraliaPacific IslandsEuropeUKUSAAfricaAsia
    • Rail holidays
    • Cruise holidays
    • Ski holidays
    • Luxury travel
    • Adventure travel
  • Kāhu Māori news
  • Environment
    • All Environment
    • Our Green Future
  • Talanoa Pacific news
  • Property
    • All Property
    • Property Insider
    • Interest rates tracker
    • Residential property listings
    • Commercial property listings
  • Health
  • Technology
    • All Technology
    • AI
    • Social media
  • Rural
    • All Rural
    • Dairy farming
    • Sheep & beef farming
    • Horticulture
    • Animal health
    • Rural business
    • Rural life
    • Rural technology
    • Opinion
    • Audio & podcasts
  • Weather forecasts
    • All Weather forecasts
    • Kaitaia
    • Whangārei
    • Dargaville
    • Auckland
    • Thames
    • Tauranga
    • Hamilton
    • Whakatāne
    • Rotorua
    • Tokoroa
    • Te Kuiti
    • Taumaranui
    • Taupō
    • Gisborne
    • New Plymouth
    • Napier
    • Hastings
    • Dannevirke
    • Whanganui
    • Palmerston North
    • Levin
    • Paraparaumu
    • Masterton
    • Wellington
    • Motueka
    • Nelson
    • Blenheim
    • Westport
    • Reefton
    • Kaikōura
    • Greymouth
    • Hokitika
    • Christchurch
    • Ashburton
    • Timaru
    • Wānaka
    • Oamaru
    • Queenstown
    • Dunedin
    • Gore
    • Invercargill
  • Meet the journalists
  • Promotions & competitions
  • OneRoof property listings
  • Driven car news

Puzzles & Quizzes

  • Puzzles
    • All Puzzles
    • Sudoku
    • Code Cracker
    • Crosswords
    • Cryptic crossword
    • Wordsearch
  • Quizzes
    • All Quizzes
    • Morning quiz
    • Afternoon quiz
    • Sports quiz

Regions

  • Northland
    • All Northland
    • Far North
    • Kaitaia
    • Kerikeri
    • Kaikohe
    • Bay of Islands
    • Whangarei
    • Dargaville
    • Kaipara
    • Mangawhai
  • Auckland
  • Waikato
    • All Waikato
    • Hamilton
    • Coromandel & Hauraki
    • Matamata & Piako
    • Cambridge
    • Te Awamutu
    • Tokoroa & South Waikato
    • Taupō & Tūrangi
  • Bay of Plenty
    • All Bay of Plenty
    • Katikati
    • Tauranga
    • Mount Maunganui
    • Pāpāmoa
    • Te Puke
    • Whakatāne
  • Rotorua
  • Hawke's Bay
    • All Hawke's Bay
    • Napier
    • Hastings
    • Havelock North
    • Central Hawke's Bay
    • Wairoa
  • Taranaki
    • All Taranaki
    • Stratford
    • New Plymouth
    • Hāwera
  • Manawatū - Whanganui
    • All Manawatū - Whanganui
    • Whanganui
    • Palmerston North
    • Manawatū
    • Tararua
    • Horowhenua
  • Wellington
    • All Wellington
    • Kapiti
    • Wairarapa
    • Upper Hutt
    • Lower Hutt
  • Nelson & Tasman
    • All Nelson & Tasman
    • Motueka
    • Nelson
    • Tasman
  • Marlborough
  • West Coast
  • Canterbury
    • All Canterbury
    • Kaikōura
    • Christchurch
    • Ashburton
    • Timaru
  • Otago
    • All Otago
    • Oamaru
    • Dunedin
    • Balclutha
    • Alexandra
    • Queenstown
    • Wanaka
  • Southland
    • All Southland
    • Invercargill
    • Gore
    • Stewart Island
  • Gisborne

Media

  • Video
    • All Video
    • NZ news video
    • Herald NOW
    • Business news video
    • Politics news video
    • Sport video
    • World news video
    • Lifestyle video
    • Entertainment video
    • Travel video
    • Markets with Madison
    • Kea Kids news
  • Podcasts
    • All Podcasts
    • The Front Page
    • On the Tiles
    • Ask me Anything
    • The Little Things
  • Cartoons
  • Photo galleries
  • Today's Paper - E-editions
  • Photo sales
  • Classifieds

NZME Network

  • Advertise with NZME
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • BusinessDesk
  • Newstalk ZB
  • Sunlive
  • ZM
  • The Hits
  • Coast
  • Radio Hauraki
  • The Alternative Commentary Collective
  • Gold
  • Flava
  • iHeart Radio
  • Hokonui
  • Radio Wanaka
  • iHeartCountry New Zealand
  • Restaurant Hub
  • NZME Events

SubscribeSign In
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Home / Lifestyle

A tale of two Trump sisters: The very different lives of Ivanka and Tiffany

By Guy Kelly
Daily Telegraph UK·
30 May, 2019 08:46 PM7 mins to read

Subscribe to listen

Access to Herald Premium articles require a Premium subscription. Subscribe now to listen.
Already a subscriber?  Sign in here

Listening to articles is free for open-access content—explore other articles or learn more about text-to-speech.
‌
Save

    Share this article

    Reminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read.

One was raised in New York with her father and his money, the other without both. Photo / Getty Images.

One was raised in New York with her father and his money, the other without both. Photo / Getty Images.

The entire world knows about Ivanka Trump. Donald Trump's eldest daughter was front and centre of her father's presidential campaign as his advisor and de-facto First Lady. But his second daughter Tiffany is more of a mystery.

It was a minor moment in an otherwise insignificant speech. At an event in Ohio last year, Donald Trump was midway through lecturing a group of labourers, engineers and "incredible carpenters" about how terrific he is, when he broke off and addressed some special guests.

"Speaking of a job well done," he said, segueing as gracefully as ever, "we have two of my daughters here today."

At this point the room may have collectively wondered who he meant.

One was placed front and centre in every room during their father's presidential campaign, the other was so far to the side, she might as well have stood in the car park. Photo / Getty Images.
One was placed front and centre in every room during their father's presidential campaign, the other was so far to the side, she might as well have stood in the car park. Photo / Getty Images.
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

They, like the rest of the world, know about Ivanka – the daughter he employed as his advisor and de-facto First Lady, the daughter he said he'd date if only she wasn't his daughter, the daughter whose real name, Ivana Marie Trump, is identical to her mother's – and began to applaud at first mention of her.

Then suddenly, Trump remembered something else. "And Tiffany!"

The tale of the two Trump sisters, Ivanka, 37, and 25-year-old And Tiffany (or Tiffany, as she's less commonly known) is a curious one.

The former was raised in New York with her father and his riches nearby, the other in California without him.

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.
Ivanka Trump and Tiffany Trump attend the launch of Ivanka's Lifestyle Collection of Footwear at Nordstrom in 2011.
Ivanka Trump and Tiffany Trump attend the launch of Ivanka's Lifestyle Collection of Footwear at Nordstrom in 2011.

One had her own jewellery line, the other was named after a jewellery brand.

One markets herself as a self-made businesswoman-cum-diplomat, the other is happy to act the archetypal billionaire's daughter.

Discover more

World

Tiffany Trump confirms book's shock claim

08 Jan 05:04 AM
World

Ivanka for president? Trump's daughter wants ultimate power

23 Mar 06:02 AM
World

What Ivanka really thinks about Melania

13 Apr 12:19 AM
World

'We ran out of words': Incredible Spelling Bee final crowns eight champions

31 May 05:08 AM

One is best friends with Chelsea Clinton, the other with Lindsay Lohan.

One was placed front and centre in every room during their father's presidential campaign, the other was so far to the side, she might as well have stood in the car park.

Ivanka Trump and her mother Ivana. Photo / Getty Images.
Ivanka Trump and her mother Ivana. Photo / Getty Images.

And now, as the UK prepares for the Trump family's state visit next week, one will be arriving on Air Force One with Daddy, but the other is already here, dining in Annabel's, shopping in Harrods, and doing things her way...

Ivanka and Tiffany. Tiffany and Ivanka. Here's all you need to know about Tiffany Trump.

Family matters

Tiffany Trump and her mother Marla Maples. Photo / Getty Images.
Tiffany Trump and her mother Marla Maples. Photo / Getty Images.

To ask whether Donald has a favourite daughter would be like asking whether Fox News has a favourite political party: just listen to him.

"Let me tell you one thing," Donald told an interviewer once, "Ivanka is a great, great beauty. Every guy in the country wants to go out with my daughter."

Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Then the pause again. "You know I have another daughter, with Marla, named Tiffany? She's just a beautiful great kid also. But it's very separate. When you have separate wives, it's sort of… separate."

Years later, on Election Day in 2016, he said he was proud of Tiffany "to a lesser extent" than his other offspring. Lovely.

Rearing process

Tiffany and Ivanka Trump were raised seperately but spent Thanksgiving together at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach. Photo / Getty Images.
Tiffany and Ivanka Trump were raised seperately but spent Thanksgiving together at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach. Photo / Getty Images.

If there's a reason Donald isn't seen as being as close with Tiffany as he is with Ivanka, it could be that they were around 3,000 miles apart for most of her childhood.

Donald and Tiffany's mother, the actress Marla Maples, separated when she was four years old and divorced when she was six.

After this, Tiffany moved from New York to California, where she was raised with Maples, and mainly saw Donald and her siblings during spring break at Mar-a-Lago, the hotel he owns in Florida.

By contrast, Ivanka made it four more years (to the age of 10) before Donald divorced her mother, the Czech former model Ivana Trump, but she stayed a mere elevator ride away from their father in Trump Tower with her brothers, Don Jr and Eric.

Education, education, education

Maples was the second and only American-born wife of Donald Trump. They married in 1993 and divorced in 1999. Photo / Getty Images.
Maples was the second and only American-born wife of Donald Trump. They married in 1993 and divorced in 1999. Photo / Getty Images.

For one very fleeting moment it seemed as if Tiffany would follow her mother into show business.

In 2011, her final year of school, she released a pop song entitled "Like a Bird", the lyrics of which ("Diamonds are so shiny/Special things I got on me") mysteriously eluded the Pulitzer committee.

In the end she paused the music and enrolled at the University of Pennsylvania, nearer her father and half-siblings, and eventually received a double major in Sociology and Urban Studies.

Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump and Eric Trump at Donald Trump's 50th birthday party. Photo / Getty Images.
Ivanka Trump, Tiffany Trump and Eric Trump at Donald Trump's 50th birthday party. Photo / Getty Images.

Later, after internships at Vogue and an eyewear company, she began attending Georgetown Law School in Washington, DC.

As for Ivanka? She had a slightly more charmed upbringing. For instance, her father once arranged for Michael Jackson to watch her dance in The Nutcracker – a memory that may have lost its glow in recent months.

Ivanka started at a girls' school in Manhattan before attending a prestigious boarding school in Connecticut, which she likened to a "prison". John F Kennedy, Glenn Close and Michael Douglas are among other former inmates.

Donald Trump and Ivanka during Grand Opening of The Harley Davidson Cafe at Harley Davidson Cafe in New York. Photo / Getty Images.
Donald Trump and Ivanka during Grand Opening of The Harley Davidson Cafe at Harley Davidson Cafe in New York. Photo / Getty Images.

She then attended Georgetown University before switching to the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where her brother, Don Jr, and father also studied.

She went on to be a model before definitely not using her father's connections to get ahead in business.

Life partners

Ivanka has been married to mute vampire doll Jared Kushner, who now serves alongside her as a senior advisor to Donald Trump, for 11 years. Before that she'd been linked to everybody from Lance Armstrong to Topher Grace, and once dated a man named Bingo Gubelmann.

Tiffany, meanwhile, is currently in London with her boyfriend Michael Boulos, a finance student of Lebanese and French descent who was born in Texas but grew up in Nigeria – a country Tiffany's father may or may not have been thinking of when he reportedly referred to some parts of Africa as "s****ole countries" last year.

Before Boulos, Tiffany had her own turn dating a man with a preposterous name. She and Ross Mechanic broke up last year.

Circles of trust

Before a tidy up, Tiffany Trump's Instagram feed used to feature her partying with the "Snap Pack", a group of heiresses and models who keenly displayed their wealth.

Other members included Kyra Kennedy, a daughter of Robert F Kennedy Jr, and Barron Hilton, brother of Paris.

She's also old friends with Lindsay Lohan, who Tiffany's father once mused is "probably deeply troubled and therefore great in bed", and the actress Abigail Breslin, who her father has mercifully said nothing about.

Ivanka has her own celebrity circle – or did – starting with Chelsea Clinton, whom she reportedly met through her husband a few years ago. She and Kushner are also firm friends with Hugh Jackman, whose 50th birthday party they attended last year, and it's been reported Ivanka is close with Wendi Deng, the former wife and one-time bodyguard of Rupert Murdoch.

Sisterly bond

In Ivanka's profoundly moving first book The Trump Card: Playing to Win in Work and Life, there is just one mention of her sister – Tiffany approaching Ivanka for advice about how she should ask their father for a credit card.

"All she wanted, really, was a way to enjoy some of the privileges her friends got to enjoy," Ivanka wrote.

In the end the elder of the two "suggested [her father] think about surprising Tiffany with a credit card for Christmas, with a small monthly allowance on it. Sure enough, he did just that."

The parable of that story is unclear, but it at least illustrates the fact the sisters got on. And they continue to, apparently.

Tiffany posts photographs of her with Ivanka's three children, Ivanka says things like "she's my little sister! I've been close to Tiffany her whole life, and I really love her."

And there's no reason to doubt that. But, boy, what a pair.

Save

    Share this article

    Reminder, this is a Premium article and requires a subscription to read.

Latest from Lifestyle

Premium
Lifestyle

How to tackle your to-do list if you struggle with executive functioning

17 Jun 06:00 PM
Premium
Lifestyle

Josh Emett and the eclair that became an icon

Premium
Lifestyle

‘They come at you’: The grandmothers playing rough at a kids’ sport

17 Jun 06:00 AM

Sponsored: Embrace the senses

sponsored
Advertisement
Advertise with NZME.

Latest from Lifestyle

Premium
How to tackle your to-do list if you struggle with executive functioning

How to tackle your to-do list if you struggle with executive functioning

17 Jun 06:00 PM

NY Times: Conditions like ADHD can make starting and completing tasks feel impossible.

Premium
Josh Emett and the eclair that became an icon

Josh Emett and the eclair that became an icon

Premium
‘They come at you’: The grandmothers playing rough at a kids’ sport

‘They come at you’: The grandmothers playing rough at a kids’ sport

17 Jun 06:00 AM
How often you should be cleaning your toilet, according to experts

How often you should be cleaning your toilet, according to experts

17 Jun 12:12 AM
Help for those helping hardest-hit
sponsored

Help for those helping hardest-hit

NZ Herald
  • About NZ Herald
  • Meet the journalists
  • Newsletters
  • Classifieds
  • Help & support
  • Contact us
  • House rules
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms of use
  • Competition terms & conditions
  • Our use of AI
Subscriber Services
  • NZ Herald e-editions
  • Daily puzzles & quizzes
  • Manage your digital subscription
  • Manage your print subscription
  • Subscribe to the NZ Herald newspaper
  • Subscribe to Herald Premium
  • Gift a subscription
  • Subscriber FAQs
  • Subscription terms & conditions
  • Promotions and subscriber benefits
NZME Network
  • The New Zealand Herald
  • The Northland Age
  • The Northern Advocate
  • Waikato Herald
  • Bay of Plenty Times
  • Rotorua Daily Post
  • Hawke's Bay Today
  • Whanganui Chronicle
  • Viva
  • NZ Listener
  • Newstalk ZB
  • BusinessDesk
  • OneRoof
  • Driven Car Guide
  • iHeart Radio
  • Restaurant Hub
NZME
  • About NZME
  • NZME careers
  • Advertise with NZME
  • Digital self-service advertising
  • Book your classified ad
  • Photo sales
  • NZME Events
  • © Copyright 2025 NZME Publishing Limited
TOP