{{Short description|American socialite, philanthropist, and member of the Trump Family (born 1948)}} {{Infobox person | name = Blaine Trump | birth_name = Martha Lindley Blaine Beard | birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1948}} | birth_place = [[Mountain Brook, Alabama]], U.S. | education = {{plainlist| * [[International School of the Sacred Heart]] * [[American School of Paris]] * [[Bennett College (New York)|Bennett College]] * [[University of Tokyo]] }} | occupation = {{hlist|[[Socialite]]|[[philanthropist]]}} | known_for = {{hlist|American socialite|Trustee of the [[American Ballet Theatre]]}} | spouse = {{marriage|Peter Retchin|July 1970|end=div}}<br>{{marriage|[[Robert Trump]]|1984|2010|end=div}} | partner = Steve Simon (2010s–present) | children = 1 }} '''Martha Lindley Blaine Trump''' ([[Birth name|née]] '''Beard'''; born 1948)<ref name="1950census">{{Cite United States census|url=https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6F7G-5S34|title=M L Blaine Beard|location=Mountain Brook, Jefferson, Alabama|year=1950|roll=3254|Page=19|line=3|enumdist=37-301B|accessdate=February 9, 2024}})</ref> is an American [[socialite]] and philanthropist. For 25 years she was the wife of real-estate heir [[Robert Trump]]. She is an ex-sister in law of [[President of the United States|U.S. President]] [[Donald Trump]].
== Early life and education == Blaine Trump was born Martha Lindley Blaine Beard,<ref name="1950census" /> and grew up in South Carolina, Florida and Alabama. Her father, Joseph Beard,<ref name="nytimes/2002/03/08/death">{{cite news |title=Paid Notice: Deaths: Beard, Josephus Simmons II |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/08/classified/paid-notice-deaths-beard-josephus-simmons-ii.html |access-date=July 28, 2024 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 8, 2002}}</ref><ref name="nytimes/2000/08/11/death">{{cite news |title=Paid Notice: Deaths: Trump, MaryA. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/11/classified/paid-notice-deaths-trump-mary-a.html |access-date=28 July 2024 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=August 11, 2000}}</ref> was a top executive at [[IBM]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/10/28/garden/the-winning-ways-of-blaine-trump.html|title=The Winning Ways of Blaine Trump|last=Schiro|first=Anne-Marie|date=October 28, 1987|work=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=February 18, 2019}}</ref> Blaine and her family moved to [[Yokohama]] due to her father's job when she was ten. There, she attended the [[International School of the Sacred Heart]].<ref name=":0" /> She later graduated from the [[American School of Paris]] in [[Louveciennes]]. She attended [[Bennett College (New York)|Bennett College]] in [[Millbrook, New York]], and then<ref name=":8">{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/9405755/the_orlando_sentinel/|title= Martha Lindley Blaine Beard . . .|date=August 28, 1966|newspaper=[[Orlando Sentinel]]|access-date=February 18, 2019}}</ref> the [[University of Tokyo]] before dropping out to marry Peter Retchin.<ref name=":1">{{Cite news|url=https://people.com/archive/blaine-trump-socialite-vol-49-no-18/|title=Blaine Trump: Socialite|date=May 11, 1998|magazine=[[People (magazine)|People]]|access-date=February 18, 2019|issue=18|volume=49}}</ref>
== Activity == Trump is a [[trustee]] of the [[American Ballet Theatre]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.abt.org/the-company/board-of-trustees/|title=Board of Governing Trustees|publisher=[[American Ballet Theatre]]|access-date=February 18, 2019}}</ref> In 1998, Trump received the [[Marietta Tree]] Award for public service from the New York City citizens' committee.{{cn|date=July 2023}}
== Personal life == Blaine Trump has been married and divorced twice. First she married Peter Retchin in 1970, with whom she had a child in 1978, Christopher Hollister who is a real estate executive, before getting a divorce.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=":3">{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/10/fashion/weddings/10dieterle.html|title=Raina Dieterle, Christopher Trump-Retchin|date=June 10, 2007|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|access-date=February 18, 2019}}</ref>
In 1984 she married [[Robert Trump]], who worked in his property-developer family firm [[Trump Organization]] and they were together for 25 years, from 1984 to 2009.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Karni|first=Annie|date=August 15, 2020|title=Robert S. Trump, the President's Younger Brother, Dies at 71|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/15/us/politics/robert-s-trump-dead.html|access-date=August 16, 2020|issn=0362-4331}}</ref> In October 2004, Blaine overdosed on pills and was hospitalized at [[Mount Sinai Hospital (Manhattan)|Mount Sinai Hospital]] in Manhattan, New York after she learned her [[husband]] had bought a $3.7 million house on [[Long Island]] for his girlfriend, Ann Marie Pallan, who was his secretary for many years.<ref>[https://www.thelist.com/237117/ann-marie-pallan-who-is-robert-trumps-wife Ann Marie Pallan: Who is Robert Trump's wife?]</ref> They were involved in a lengthy divorce battle. The divorce was filed in 2007, went to court in 2008, and they reached a secret settlement in 2010.<ref name=":6">{{Cite magazine|url=http://nymag.com/news/intelligencer/41836/|title=Divorce, Park Avenue Style|last=Rosenblum|first=Emma|date=December 8, 2007|magazine=[[New York (magazine)|New York]]|access-date=February 18, 2019}}</ref> After Robert and Blaine separated, in 2006, after more than 20 years of marriage, they put their 6,500-square-foot, three-unit, three-floor, unfinished co-op residence on the market.<ref name="nytimes/2006/05/14/deal1">{{cite news |last1=Neuman |first1=William |title=A Trump Triplex Goes on the Market |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/realestate/14deal1.html |access-date=July 28, 2024 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=May 14, 2006}}</ref>
In 2012, Blaine Trump put her $17.5 million mansion in [[Millbrook, New York]], up for sale.<ref name=":7">{{Cite web|url=https://www.curbed.com/2012/6/22/10361690/the-ohsovery-untrump-mansion-of-socialite-blaine-trump|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160227073310/http://www.curbed.com/2012/6/22/10361690/the-ohsovery-untrump-mansion-of-socialite-blaine-trump|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 27, 2016|title=The Oh-So-Very Un-Trump Mansion of Socialite Blaine Trump|last=Bear|first=Rob|date=June 22, 2012|publisher=[[Curbed]]|access-date=February 18, 2019}}</ref> Five years later, she and her life partner Steve Simon attended President [[First inauguration of Donald Trump|Donald Trump's inauguration ball]] in Washington.<ref name=":4">{{Cite magazine|last=Goldfarb|first=Brad|date=December 19, 2016|title=Socialite Blaine Trump's Home in Manhattan|magazine=[[Architectural Digest]]|url=https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/blaine-trump-manhattan-apartment-article|access-date=February 18, 2019}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite news|last=Barsamian|first=Edward|date=January 21, 2017|title=Inside the 2017 Inauguration Day and Ball Ceremonies With Blaine Trump|magazine=[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/blaine-trump-inauguration-day-2017-celebrity-photo-diary-style|access-date=February 18, 2019}}</ref>
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