Inside Ivanka Trump’s $35m home in ‘Billionaire’s Bunker’
Donald Trump will step back into the White House next week but daughter Ivanka won’t be at the US President’s side. She has revealed what made her walk away.
Ivanka Trump has opened up about her decision to flee Washington, DC and relocate to Florida with her husband, Jared Kushner, and their three children.
During a candid appearance on “The Skinny Confidential” podcast, the former and future first daughter bluntly admitted that she “hates politics” and the “darkness” that surrounds “that world”.
The businesswoman added that the main reason she chose to distance herself from her father Doanld’s latest campaign was her children, and her desire to protect them from all that she experienced.
“The main reason I am not going back to serve now is, I know the cost,” she told hosts Lauryn Bosstick and Michael Bosstick.
“And it’s a price that I’m not willing to make my kids bear. My primary goals were just to, like, be the best freaking mum.
“Every time I had to miss something, I’m like, ‘I will never let this happen again in the minute I leave the White House.’ I feel super great about this decision.”
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Ivanka revealed that working in the White House put her under extreme pressure and claimed that she didn’t “see the sunlight” for four years.
“You become a little bit calloused. It’s very dark, negative. And some people love, like, the gladiator aspect of it. The fight — that was never me,” she admitted.
“Oh, my gosh, I don’t think I saw sunlight for four years,” she said of being an adviser to the president.
Although she remained adamant that she doesn’t want to go back into a life of politics, she noted that her time in the White House had its perks — first and foremost, experiencing a world outside of the high society “bubble” of her time living in Manhattan.
“It was a time of extraordinary personal growth for me and learning,” she said.
“In retrospect, I was able to break free of a bubble that I didn’t even know that I was in of the sort of Upper East Side of New York.”
Despite not wanting to join her father for his second term, she insisted that Donald is surrounded by “great energy” and that he has put in an immense amount of work preparing for his return.
She added: “He’s got so much energy and support and excitement. And I think the four years has really allowed him to calibrate, you know, how he wants to spend this next four years. And he’s incredibly excited and enthusiastic.”
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Since saying goodbye to politics, Ivanka has pursued a lifestyle more befitting an A-list celebrity, travelling the world, attending star-studded red carpet events, palling around with Kim Kardashian.
The former “Apprentice” star and her husband now live with their three children on Indian Creek Island, dubbed the “Billionaire’s Bunker”, where their neighbours include close pals Tom Brady and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos and his fiancee, Lauren Sanchez.
The couple purchased a megamansion for a whopping $US24 million ($A35 million) in April 2021, according to Realtor.
Since snapping up the six-bedroom compound, the two have completed a gut renovation and transformed the residence into one of the most enviable properties in the neighbourhood.
Work on the property went on for more than two years, with Ivanka hosting a birthday celebration there just weeks before the renovation was finally completed in November 2023.
Property records revealed Ivanka and Kushner took out a $US15 million ($A22 million) mortgage when purchasing the home, which comes with a private boat dock and offers staggering views of Biscayne Bay.
Located in an exclusive gated community, the property was described in its original listing as a “magnificent, remodelled neoclassical masterpiece.”
The couple retained the large water feature at the front of the property. In the lavish backyard, they ripped out and then reinstalled the swimming pool.
According to the plans that were released by Miami-Dade County, the couple installed a chef’s kitchen next to the dining room and outfitted the primary suite with double closets and a beautiful spa bathroom.
The pool cabana out back was also given a total makeover, which saw a sauna, steam room, and cold plunge pool installed.
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Many of the Trump family now own homes in Florida — although Ivanka’s siblings, Eric and Donald Jr., both chose to put down roots in Jupiter, which is a two-hour drive north of her home.
Jupiter is located much closer to Donald’s infamous Mar-a-Lago estate, where he has spent much of his time since leaving the White House and where he celebrated his election night victory alongside his children.
Before moving into their palatial mansion, Ivanka and Kushner had been living in a sprawling condo in the Surfside neighbourhood of Miami, where all three of their children — Arabella, 13, Joseph, 11, and Theodore, 8 — attend school.
The couple enjoyed a lengthy stay at the lavish Arte Surfside, a condo building located on the waterfront, where they are understood to have resided in a six-bedroom apartment, which was purchased for $US17 million ($A25 million) in January 2023.
Parts of this story first appeared in Realtor and were republished with permission.
Originally published as Inside Ivanka Trump’s $35m home in ‘Billionaire’s Bunker’
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