One of Ivana Trump’s best friends was always worried that Ivana might slip on what she called the beautiful but “tricky” staircase in her gorgeous Manhattan home.
“I have to tell you something – this has always been my fear,” Nikki Haskell told Extra TV. “She had one of those really beautiful stairs that was impossible to get down. Narrow on the inside and wider when it comes out. I was always afraid it would fall. I don’t know what happened, but it’s not hard for me to believe that it happened – treacherous stairs.
Trump, 73, who was said to have had trouble walking and was in poor health, was found at the bottom of the stairs after either falling or going into cardiac arrest, authorities said. The city medical examiner ruled her death an accident.
Ivana Trump’s best friend, Nikki Haskell, feared “she’s going to fall” on the “tricky stairs” of her Upper East Side home. Ron Galella Collection/Ron Galella via Getty Images
Ivana often poses in her luxurious million dollar townhouse on East 64th Street with the staircase in the background. Gossip columnist Rob Shuter told News Nation on Friday night that he had visited the apartment – and also called the staircase “insidious”.
“(The suite) wasn’t as renovated and flashy as you might think,” Shuter said. “These stairs have always been dangerous. The carpet on these stairs was also a bit worn.
The city’s medical examiner announced that there was no foul play in Ivana Trump’s death. ZapatA/MEGA Ivana Trump previously poses next to her grand staircase at her Upper East Side home on October 4, 2017. Brian Zack Gossip journalist Rob Shooter also called Ivana Trump’s staircase “dangerous” due to its worn carpet. Collection by Ron Galella via Getty Images
Haskell, who dined with Trump not too long ago, said that in recent years, Donald’s usually gregarious and social first wife had become “reclusive.”
“In the last few years she became very reclusive… She had a big town house and she was really afraid of getting the virus, much more than anyone I know. She didn’t want to go anywhere, she didn’t want to travel… She took it very, very seriously. She was afraid of getting sick.
According to Haskell, however, Trump was about to rejoin the world and she was preparing to leave New York for St. Tropez, where she has a home.
“She finally decided, ‘Okay, I’m going to go…'” She stayed in New York all this time. She wouldn’t leave at all and she was alone and I’m sure it was a lot harder than I could have imagined.’
Nikki Haskell says Ivana Trump was about to travel before her death. Brian Zack Ivana Trump “became very reclusive” at home during the pandemic because she was afraid of contracting the coronavirus, according to gossip columnist Rob Shuter. Brian Zack
Haskell said she recently asked Ivana what her plans were.
“She said, ‘You know, Nikki, I’ve been working since I was 3 years old…I just want to rest.’ I just want to enjoy my life.”
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