Like she did with her divorce from Donald Trump, Ivana Trump knows not to leave any business opportunity unexplored. So when she wed singer Rossano Rubicondi over the weekend at her ex-husband's Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, she also cashed in — selling her wedding pictures to Getty Images for a whopping $600,000. How the photo giant will break even on the deal, let alone turn a profit, confounds us (is Ivana demand that much higher than we've guessed?). But it's the behind-the-behind-the-scenes deal that's more telling: Rubicondi demanded to get half of that fee in his name. Not that Ivana let that happen, exactly.
In the end, the new husband received $75,000, or Getty's entire deposit. More interesting: The Donald himself is said to have negotiated the terms.
And as for a point of reference: While the wedding pics of expired celebrity Ivana commanded $600k, remember that one celeb weekly editor guestimated powerhouse couple Beyonce and Jay-Z would've snagged a tiny $250k for their nuptials.
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The husband is sleazy-hot; surely Ryan Philippe will play him in the made-for-Lifetime movie in a couple of years …
Rubi is said to be an entrepreneur. Just another word for gigolo. But Ivana has what it takes to get married….MONEY!
She has never looked worse. Her first face lift during the Marla years was fabulous, since then it has all gone downhill. Why can't these women age gracefully. This dude is a gigolo, actually he isn't even debonair enough to be a gigolo, if he didn't have the Italian accent he could be Joey on Friend.
Hmmmmmm. Her 'husband' looks less than enchanted with the set up. Hmmmmmmmmmmm. Can you spell b.o.y.t.o.y?
It looks a mother and son tandem!… LOL