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January 1, 2007
Reluctant Apprentices
The NY Times
By Dave Itzkoff
One of the Don's apprentices got her start with the other master builder, Bruce.
Ivanka and Don Trump followed in their father’s footsteps by attending the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (though Ms. Trump was almost dissuaded from enrolling after visiting her brother during what she calls his “meathead phase”). Each spent a year experimenting with independence before joining the family business: Don Trump lived in Aspen, Col., where he went fly-fishing and worked at a bar; Ms. Trump worked as a tenant coordinator for the real estate developer Bruce Ratner, on a shopping mall project that did not compete directly with any of her father’s properties.
“Just because I grew up on construction sites, there’s a big difference in translating that into real life,” Ms. Trump said. “I needed the confidence to know I could do this on my own.”
Posted by lumi at January 1, 2007 9:56 AM