Vanessa Trump

Vanessa Kay Trump (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 and attended The Dwight School, a private school. Charles Haydon, her stepfather, to whom some news articles have referred as her father, was a lawyer. Her mother, Bonnie Kay Haydon, ran Kay Models, a modeling agency, and is of Danish origin. Her maternal grandfather was Danish jazz musician Kai Ewans. Career She was a model in her teens and twenties and was signed to Wilhelmina Models. As an actress, she appeared in a scene of the 2003 film Something's Gotta Give. She also appeared in a 2011 episode of The Apprentice (hosted by her father-in-law, Donald Trump) and Bret Michaels: Life as I Know It (2010).