Donald Trump will be shown raping his first wife Ivana in a new Hollywood biopic. The film, titled The Apprentice , charts the former president’s rise to wealth and power in the 1970s and 80s, under the tutelage of his ruthless lawyer, Roy Cohn. The Apprentice: Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova plays Ivana, Sebastian Stan plays Trump.
It was revealed at the film’s Cannes premiere that it contains a scene in which Trump rapes his then-wife Ivana. This reflects claims made by Ivana, who died in 2022, during her divorce from Trump. She later denied that she had been sexually assaulted.
In the new biopic Trump, played by Sebastian Stan, is presented with a book on sexual technique by his wife, who he then mocks for her breast implants, stating that he no longer finds her attractive. Ivana, played by Bulgarian actress Maria Bakalova, responds by mocking Trump’s paunch, hair, and increasingly orange complexion. Trump is then shown wrestling his wife to the ground and forcing himself onto her.
The scene strays from allegations made by Ivana in a deposition made during divorce proceedings from Trump in 1990, and later included in the book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald Trump . In the book, it is alleged that Trump was upset that a scalp treatment to remove a bald spot was extremely painful, and forced himself onto his wife. However, Ivana later rejected any suggestion that she had been raped, and in 2015 issued another public rejection of the claims and called Trump her �.
