Profile: Ivana Trump

Say what you like about Ivana Trump, says The Mail on Sunday, but the “patron saint of women scorned” certainly knows how to reinvent herself.

Say what you like about Ivana Trump, says The Mail on Sunday, but the "patron saint of women scorned" certainly knows how to reinvent herself.

After wresting $25m from Donald Trump in their 1992 divorce settlement, she "might have chosen to become another chunk of jewelled jetsam". But the woman who famously declared "don't get mad, get everything" has been true to her word. Over the past decade, she's been on a mission to out-trump Trump at every available opportunity. And she's doing a very good job indeed (see below).

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Jane writes profiles for MoneyWeek and is city editor of The Week. A former British Society of Magazine Editors editor of the year, she cut her teeth in journalism editing The Daily Telegraph’s Letters page and writing gossip for the London Evening Standard – while contributing to a kaleidoscopic range of business magazines including Personnel Today, Edge, Microscope, Computing, PC Business World, and Business & Finance.

She has edited corporate publications for accountants BDO, business psychologists YSC Consulting, and the law firm Stephenson Harwood – also enjoying a stint as a researcher for the due diligence department of a global risk advisory firm.

Her sole book to date, Stay or Go? (2016), rehearsed the arguments on both sides of the EU referendum.

She lives in north London, has a degree in modern history from Trinity College, Oxford, and is currently learning to play the drums.