Something From Nothing: Top 14 Famous Gold Diggers

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6) Ivana Trump

This woman is no stranger to marrying men for the benefits they can give her. In 1991 she married an old friend so that she could get out of Communist Czechoslovakia and move to Canada. As soon as she was safely on democratic soil, she moved out and started dating someone else. After a few years as a model in Canada, she moved to New York, where she met Donald Trump. Prenup or not, the settlement had to be huge, so Ivana married Donald in a lavish society wedding.

After years working in the Trump organization, making herself visible in every aspect of Trump’s life, Ivana caught her husband in an affair with a younger woman. The divorce was tabloid fodder for months, with Ivana asking for much more than what the prenup allowed. The details are still buried, but it’s rumored that she received $20 million in cash, a home worth over $14 million, a housing allowance (of course) of over $5 million, $350,000 a year in alimony (because a girl’s gotta eat) and half ownership of their Palm Springs property.