Vanessa Kay Trump[1] (née Pergolizzi, later Haydon; born December 18, 1977) is an American former model. She married Donald Trump Jr. in 2005 and they divorced in 2018. She was born in New York City.
Early life
Vanessa grew up in a townhouse on the Upper East Side of Manhattan[2] and attended The Dwight School,[3] a private school. Charles Haydon, her stepfather,[4] to whom some news articles have referred as her father,[5][6] was a lawyer. Her mother, Bonnie Kay Haydon, ran Kay Models, a modeling agency, and is of Danish origin.[7][8] Her maternal grandfather was Danish jazz musician Kai Ewans.[8][9]
Vanessa married Donald Trump Jr. on November 12, 2005. The wedding was held at the Mar-a-Lago club in Florida; the service was officiated by Trump Jr.'s aunt, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry.[18] Trump Jr. proposed to her with a $100,000 ring which he received as a gift from a jeweler in exchange for proposing to her in front of paparazzi outside of the jeweler's store in a New Jersey mall.[19] Together they have five children: daughter Kai Madison (b. May 2007), son Donald John III (b. February 2009), son Tristan Milos (b. October 2011), son Spencer Frederick (b. October 2012), and daughter Chloe Sophia (b. June 2014).[20][21][22] The oldest daughter, Kai, is named after her grandfather (Kai's great-grandfather), Kai Ewans.[23][24]
On March 15, 2018, it was reported that Vanessa filed for an uncontested divorce in New York; however, it was later revealed that the divorce was contested.[3][25] In July 2018, they resolved a child custody issue,[26] and the divorce was settled at the end of 2018.[27]