TRUMP FAMILY: “Ivana Trump was back at the Plaza Hotel on Tuesday [6-12-18], the hotel where she once had a say over everything from the wallpaper to the chandeliers, back when she was married to Donald J. Trump. But that was long ago. Now, she had come to promote a diet that promises followers they can ‘eat pasta, cookies and lose weight.’ It was Ms. Trump who gave Mr. Trump a definite article — she put the ‘the’ in ‘the Donald’ — long before he had a job that came with one, as the president. On Tuesday, as reporters crowded around her at the Plaza, she was asked how often she talks to her ex-husband..But about that diet. It is the brainchild of Gianluca Mech. He is an Italian businessman perhaps best known for spending $200,000 to recreate, for one night last year, the Brooklyn discothèque where ‘Saturday Night Fever,’ the 1977 homage to the bell-bottoms-and-disco-ball era, was filmed. He is extremely thin, although he said his father was obese.”
-James Barron, “Ivana Trump Wants to Talk Diet, Not Donald,” The New York Times online, June 13, 2018