Maryanne Trump Barry was a retired federal judge and the older sister of President Donald Trump.
Maryanne Trump Barry, 86, the older sister of former US President Donald Trump, was found dead in her New York apartment on Monday.
Police found his body dead in the apartment on 5th Avenue on Manhattan’s Upper East Side around 4 a.m., according to the Post Millennial. The city medical examiner has not yet announced the cause of death, but police said there were no signs of trauma or foul play.
Born in 1937, Maryanne was the eldest of five Trump siblings. She was appointed to the District Court of New Jersey by President Ronald Reagan in 1983, and to the United States Court of Appeals (Third Circuit) by President Bill Clinton in 1999. Barry Trump became an inactive judge in 2016 and retired in 2019, leaving the public eye during his brother’s presidency.
“Even as a kid, I knew it was better than trying to compete with Donald. » she said New York Review in 2002. “I couldn’t have won. He built models when he was very young. Huge buildings. »
Maryanne went to college at Mount Holyoke and received her master’s degree from Columbia University in 1962. She married David Desmond, with whom she had a son who later became a psychologist and comedian. Six years after giving birth, Maryanne went to law school at Hofstra University and began a career in law.
She described her first job after law school as “one of two female assistant U.S. attorneys in an office of 63 U.S. attorneys, and the first woman to perform criminal work appearing only before male judges.”
After divorcing Desmond, Maryanne married John Barry, a lawyer who often worked on cases for the Trump Organization, her brother’s company. Barry died in 2000.
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