Tabloid

In the White House, Ivanka is the real first lady—and a possible World Bank head. But what’s next?

Originally published September, 2019

Ivanka is totally done with rebellion and, like Michael Corleone before her, gets dragged into the dirty family business. She also begins to build her personal, valuable brand as a very politics-neutral Woman Who Works. 

Originally published September, 2019

Now that she's secured her father's attention again, she rebels a little--tries Georgetown instead of Penn and parties a ton at a loft on Great Jones Street, where her social world collides with (host and producer) Vanessa Grigoriadis's. And then she meets the love of her life, Jared Kushner. 

Originally published September, 2019.

Ivanka regains her dad’s attention by dipping into the world of his dating pool--the modeling world. It's perhaps a strange choice for an ambitious, well-capitalized, well-educated and well-connected young woman, but Ivanka seemed to understand just what her father might want out of her.

Originally published September, 2019.

Ivanka as teenage rebel, looking to get her parents' attention back and learning to be the aristocrat of Ivana's dreams at Chapin and Choate, all while dying her hair and smoking cigarettes and flashing hot-dog vendors.

Originally published Aug, 2019.

The rise of Marla; how Ivanka coped with the ruin of her perfect, cosseted world; and watched her parents duke it out in the tabloids as though she and her siblings didn't exist, learning that everything is a competition and that there’s more than one way to "win."

Originally published Aug, 2019.

Ivana Trump tries to give Ivanka a normal childhood, even if they live in the penthouse of Trump Tower. Still, young Ivanka witnesses her father’s obsessions with business, women, and the media. At eight-years-old, Ivanka gets a front row seat to her parents’ very messy – and very public – divorce.

Originally published in 2019.

New York fashion editor Amy Larocca dishes on Ivanka's fashion sense, and feminist rebranding. 

Originally published September, 2019

We know her as a family hood ornament, a succession of masks, and a strange collection of assets to her father (PR, attack dog, Manchurian candidate, sex object). The first episode opens at the inauguration to set up the major framing of the series--what's Ivanka Trump's psychological motivation? How does she present herself in the world? How did she become the person she is today? The Trumps are a tabloid family at their core, who didn't just conduct their dirty business in the tabloids but raised their kids in and through them, too. Vanessa Grigoriadis, the host and writer, tells the inside story of Ivanka, through a New York City lens.

[Originally published for paying subscribers only in 2019]

Tabloid stories are not just guilty pleasures; they are revelatory ones, electrified by the tripwires of culture: race, class, gender, and politics. This season, a full-life inquiry into the making of Ivanka Trump, from child of very public 1980s divorce to teenage party girl and then her trophy-collecting father’s very favorite trophy. Hosted by Vanessa Grigoriadis.

[Originally published in 2019]