Sister of former US president dies — RT World News

Marian Trump Barry, 86, the older sister of former US President Donald Trump, was found dead on Monday in her apartment in New York City.

Police found her lifeless body inside an apartment on Fifth Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side at about 4 a.m., according to the Post Millennial. The city coroner has not yet announced the cause of death, but police said there were no signs of trauma or foul play.

Born in 1937, Marianne was the eldest of Trump’s five brothers and sisters. She was nominated to the U.S. District Court in New Jersey by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, and to the U.S. Court of Appeals (3rd Circuit) by President Bill Clinton in 1999. Barry Trump became an inactive judge in 2016 and retired in 2019, leaving office. The eyes of the public during her brother’s presidency.

“I knew better even as a kid than to try to compete with Donald.” I told New York Magazine In 2002. “I wouldn’t have been able to win. He was building models when he was very young. Huge buildings.”

Marian attended college at Mount Holyoke and received a master’s degree from Columbia University in 1962. She married David Desmond, with whom she had a son who would later become a psychologist and humorist. Six years after giving birth, Marianne enrolled at Hofstra University School of Law and began her law career.

She described her first job after graduating from law school as… “One of two female assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys, and the first woman to prosecute before all-male judges.”

After her divorce from Desmond, Marianne married John Barry, a lawyer who often worked on cases for the Trump Organization, her brother’s firm. Barry died in 2000.