- Ivanka, 42, left her Park Avenue apartment wearing a $4,990 Carolina Herrera coat.
- Underneath, she wore a $448 blazer and $258 pants by Trina Turk.
- She accessorized her look with $775 Jimmy Choo heels and a $3,400 Chanel bag
Ivanka Trump put her best foot forward Wednesday when she took the witness stand at her father’s $250 million civil fraud trial in New York City.
The former White House senior adviser evoked her political powerhouse past when she emerged from her Park Avenue apartment wearing a nearly $10,000 outfit, but many of the designer pieces were recycled from her closet. It was something that was done.
Ivanka, 42, opted for understated elegance for her day in court, pairing a $4,990 navy Carolina Herrera coat with $775 Jimmy Choo Romy 85 heels and $3,400 black Chanel shoes. Wearing an executive tote.
She has owned the designer wool coat since 2017 and wore it many times while her father, former President Donald Trump, was in office. Her classic black leather bag is also about five years old and was one of her go-tos in 2018.
After taking off her long coat inside the courtroom, she wore a $448 navy blazer and $258 navy dress pants from Trina Turk. It is believed to have been purchased within this year.
Ivanka paired the blazer with a simple crew neck top and accessorized her monochrome look with simple pearl stud earrings and pearl pink nail polish.
The former eldest daughter’s sharp suits were reminiscent of her days in the White House and a far cry from the casual tracksuits and colorful dresses she often wears in Miami, Florida, where she has lived for nearly three years.
Her long blonde hair was styled in loose waves that framed her face, and she wore natural makeup that accentuated her features, including rosy nude lipstick and dark eyeliner that highlighted her brown eyes. I did.
Ivanka was quiet and polite during her testimony, a contrast to her father’s combative demeanor in the same courtroom Monday.
“People call Ivanka Trump,” the court clerk said as she walked past the defense table. Then her father’s nemesis, Judge Arthur Engoron, joked, “Who is she?” to laughter from the gallery.
State Attorney Louis Solomon began by asking about Ivanka’s education and work history, particularly her work at Trump Doral in Miami, where she led the development for her family’s real estate empire.
The Trump Organization acquired the Miami resort town of Doral, which became President Trump’s largest golf course, in 2012 for $150 million.
Solomon blamed Ivanka for financing the project. “It was in pretty bad shape,” she said of Doral. We invested a huge amount of money in repositioning our assets. ”
Ivanka gave measured answers in testimony that could determine the success or failure of Attorney General Letitia James’ case, which accuses her real estate mogul father and brother of deliberately inflating prices.
When Ivanka was confronted with emails about funding for Trump’s projects, she, like her brothers Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, said she didn’t remember the conversation but said, “I have no reason to doubt it.” ” he added.
She said she has contacted several banks about the project. “It wasn’t unusual to ask people in the market what they thought,” she said.
The Trumps took Doral with them, which had fallen into bankruptcy. The 2012 loan came from Deutsche Bank, and the bank required a personal guarantee from Donald Trump.
Mr. Solomon made Ivanka look at a series of documents showing that the Trump Organization was approaching various banks to obtain loans for Mr. Doral.
What this meant was that the Trump Organization was unable to obtain financing from these banks for the Doral project.
One of her father’s lawyers, Christopher Kise, has repeatedly objected to the questioning, saying it was too broad.
She acknowledged that she has not worked for the Trump Organization since January 2017, when she joined her father’s presidential administration.
But she acknowledged having a financial stake in the proceeds from developing a former post office building in Washington, D.C., into President Trump’s iconic hotel.
She oversaw a $200 million renovation of the historic building. It opened in 2016 and was a gathering place for Trump supporters during the Trump administration, but the family sold the rental property in May 2022.
Ivanka had repeatedly tried to avoid appearing in court with her lawyer, saying it would be an “undue hardship” to appear in court during the school week.
She is the fourth member of her family to testify, but the only person not named as a defendant in the case after her lawyer dismissed her from the case.
Ivanka is the attorney general’s 25th witness in the case and is expected to be the last witness at trial.
The former eldest daughter has publicly distanced herself from her father and other Trump family members since leaving the White House in January 2021.
Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner live in Miami with their three children, Arabella, Joseph, and Theodore.
She has transitioned from politics to her private life and is now focused on “family, friends and philanthropy,” a source close to her recently told DailyMail.com.
She also helped raise money for Ukrainian refugees and delivered supplies to people on Maui after devastating wildfires in Hawaii. What she has not done is return to her political career.
She did not come to Mar-a-Lago last November, when the former president announced he would seek another term in the White House, and posted a statement saying she loved her father but didn’t want to get involved in politics.
Father and daughter still spend time together, albeit in private and away from the cameras. A source said, “The two play golf regularly.”
They have also seen each other at family events over the summer, including celebrating Ivanka’s 12-year-old daughter Arabella’s bat mitzvah.
Before entering politics, Ivanka served as executive vice president of her family’s business empire, the Trump Organization.
The role shot her to fame, leading to a guest appearance on her father’s reality show, The Apprentice, and an inch in the gossip section of a notorious New York tabloid.
She participated in Trump and Trump-branded projects, including transaction evaluation, predevelopment planning, financing, design, construction, sales and marketing, according to a description at the time on the Trump Organization’s website.
Ivanka put her business skills to good use by starting her own eponymous fashion company, which sells jewelry, shoes and clothing, but closed her business in March 2017 to work as a senior adviser to the Trump administration. Closed.