Ivana Trump in a red dress and purple earrings

Ivana Trump is back in the news. Again.

As you may recall, the first wife of ex-president Donald Trump made headlines last July when she fell to her death down a spiral staircase in her Upper East Side apartment just days before her ex-husband and their three adult children were supposed to testify in the New York attorney general’s civil investigation into the Trump Organization. She was cremated and buried on Trump’s golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey, leaving behind a $32 million estate.

Now, roughly eight months after her untimely and totally-not-suspicious death, multiple media outlets are reporting that Ivana was actually the subject of an FBI investigation in the late ’80s and early ’90s that nobody knew about until now. Um… what?!

Bloomberg News reported this week that the FBI looked into unsettling allegations related to Ivana’s ties to her home country of Czechoslovakia, compiling a 900-page “preliminary inquiry” about her complex immigration journey to the United States.

190 of the 900 pages were obtained by Bloomberg through the Freedom of Information Act. The documents show that a file was created after a confidential source provided information to the bureau in 1989 that investigators felt was credible enough to at least look into.

“It is unknown if the allegations stem from jealousies of her wealth and fame,” the report notes.

The exact nature of the inquiry is unknown, since much of the report is redacted, but it involved the FBI’s counterintelligence division, which is kind of a big deal. The bureau says it will release more documents sometime in the next month.

In the meantime, people on Twitter have come up with all sorts of wild conspiracy theories about what else might be the report…

https://twitter.com/pesachlattin/status/1640822724078764032
https://twitter.com/dollyton81/status/1641027425071931394

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