Maryanne Trump Barry, the eldest sister of former President Donald Trump, has died at the age of 86.
The former federal appeals court judge was found dead in her Upper East Side, Manhattan, apartment on Monday morning.
Who was Maryanne Trump Barry?
Maryanne Trump Barry was an American attorney and a United States federal judge.
She became an Assistant United States Attorney in 1974 and was first appointed to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey by President Ronald Reagan in 1983.
In 1999, she was appointed to the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit (Philadelphia, PA) by President Bill Clinton.
In January 2006, she testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the nomination of her colleague Samuel Alito to the United States Supreme Court.
She took senior status in June 2011, and in February 2019, she announced her retirement from the bench after an investigation was launched into allegations that she committed judicial misconduct by participating in fraudulent tax and financial transactions.
Barry was the older sister of former US president Donald Trump.
Maryanne Trump Barry Early life and education
Barry was born Maryanne Trump in Queens in New York City on April 5, 1937, the eldest child of real-estate developer Fred Trump and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump.
She is an elder sister of Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States.
She attended Kew-Forest School, She graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1958 and a Master of Arts in public law and government from Columbia University in 1962.
She later attended law school, earning her Juris Doctor from Hofstra University School of Law in 1974.
How did Maryanne Trump Barry die?
Maryanne Trump Barry cause of death
Her cause of death is not yet known and the New York Medical Examiner has launched an investigation.
Trump and Maryanne confided in each other and were close as he expanded his real estate empire and ran for president.
But cracks appeared in their relationship when Trump’s niece Mary released audio of Maryanne saying he has ‘no principles’ and ‘you can’t trust him’.
The president’s older sister dismissed Trump’s intelligence saying ‘he doesn’t read’ and cited some of his only accomplishments as his ‘five bankruptcies’.
However, ABC reported the pair were repairing their relationship and met at Trump’s Bedminster golf course this summer.
Barry was appointed by President Bill Clinton as a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1999.
She retired in 2019 over an investigation into whether she had any involvement in alleged fraudulent tax and financial transactions by the Trump family.
The probe was closed without conclusion when she stepped down.
Three of the former president’s four siblings have now died. His youngest brother Robert died in August 2020 at 71 years old and Fred Trump Jr. died of a heart attack in 1981 at the age of 42.
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