Vanessa Kay Trump (née Pergolizzi, later Haydon; born December 18, 1977) is the ex-wife of Donald Trump Jr.; they were married from 2005 to 2018.

Early life

Vanessa Kay Pergolizzi grew up in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and attended The Dwight School, a private school. Her stepfather, Charles Haydon, was a lawyer. Her mother, Bonnie Kay Haydon, ran Kay Models, a modeling agency, and is of Danish and Swedish origin. Her maternal grandfather was Danish jazz musician Kai Ewans.

Career

Trump worked as a model in her teens and 20s. and was signed to

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. Trump appeared in a scene of the film '' Something's Gotta Give'' (2003). In the fall of 2003, Trump and her sister Veronika opened a nightclub called Sessa. In 2011, Trump appeared in an episode of '' The Apprentice'', hosted by her father-in-law,

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. She also appeared in an episode of '' Bret Michaels: Life as I Know It'' (2010). From 2010 to 2013, Trump released her own line of handbags called La Poshett.

Personal life

During her teenage years, Trump dated local street gangster Valentín Rivera, a

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gang member. According to Rivera, he ended the relationship when the

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published a story that Trump was in a romantic relationship with

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(DiCaprio's publicist denied the relationship). From 1998 to 2001, Trump dated Saudi prince Khalid bin Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud. The relationship ended in 2001, when Khalid bin Bandar left the U.S. after his Saudi ambassador father, Bandar bin Sultan Al Saud, was suspected of having indirect ties to individuals linked with the

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. On November 12, 2005, she married Donald Trump Jr. The wedding was held at the

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club in Florida; the service was officiated by Trump Jr.'s aunt, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry. Trump Jr. had proposed to her with a US $100,000 ring () that he had received as a gift from a jeweler in exchange for proposing to her in front of paparazzi outside of the jeweler's store at the Short Hills mall in

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. The couple have five children together, the oldest of whom is Kai Trump, born in May 2007. On March 15, 2018, Trump filed for an uncontested divorce in

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. In July 2018, they resolved a child custody issue, and the divorce was settled at the end of 2018. Trump reportedly began a relationship with professional golfer

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in November 2024. The relationship became public in March 2025, with Woods announcing it through Instagram.

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