Martha Lindley Blaine Trump (

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Beard; born 1948)) is an American

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. For 25 years she was the wife of real-estate heir Robert Trump. She is an ex-sister in law of

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Early life and education

Blaine Trump was born Martha Lindley Blaine Beard, and grew up in South Carolina, Florida and Alabama. Her father, Joseph Beard, was a top executive at

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. Blaine and her family moved to

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due to her father's job when she was ten. There, she attended the International School of the Sacred Heart. She later graduated from the American School of Paris in

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. She attended Bennett College in

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, and then the

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before dropping out to marry Peter Retchin.

Activity

Trump is a

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of the

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. In 1998, Trump received the Marietta Tree Award for public service from the New York City citizens' committee.

Personal life

Blaine Trump has been married and divorced twice. First she was briefly married to Peter Retchin, with whom she had a child in 1978, Christopher Hollister who is a real estate executive. In 1984 she married Robert Trump, who worked in his property-developer family firm Trump Organization and they were together for 25 years, from 1984 to 2009. In October 2004, Blaine overdosed on pills and was hospitalized at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan, New York after she learned her

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had bought a $3.7 million house on

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for his girlfriend, Ann Marie Pallan, who was his secretary for many years.Ann Marie Pallan: Who is Robert Trump's wife?
/ref> They were involved in a lengthy divorce battle. The divorce was filed in 2007, went to court in 2008, and they reached a secret settlement in 2010. After Robert and Blaine separated, in 2006, after more than 20 years of marriage, they put their 6,500-square-foot, three-unit, three-floor, unfinished co-op residence on the market. In 2012, Blaine Trump put her $17.5 million mansion in

, up for sale. In 2017, Blaine Trump and her life partner Steve Simon attended President Donald Trump's inauguration ball in Washington.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Trump, Blaine 1957 births American socialites Blaine Trump American Ballet Theatre Philanthropists from New York (state) American women philanthropists Living people University of Tokyo alumni Bennett College alumni