Radar Online 3/12/08:
There was something
socatchy about that New York Daily News item Monday, sourced to an anonymous tipster, claiming
Ivanka Trump sends an assistant weekly to touch up the nail polish on the wax figure made in her likeness at Madame Tussaud's wax museum in Times Square. The vanity! And it was helped along by a weird non-denial denial from a Tussaud's rep who confirmed that, yes, Ivanka does send over polish.
Which is all incredibly shocking to Ivanka. "It's inaccurate to think that the thought would ever cross my mind to have the fingers or the toenails of a wax figure painted regularly or otherwise," she tells
Radar—especially since
Madame Tussaud's in Times Square doesn't even have an Ivanka figure. (A museum rep confirmed as much.) "It's like the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard."
But why would the increasingly famous daughter of a world famous man-turned-brand deign to acknowledge such a smear? For one, she says, she'd never send her assistant of three years on such a petty mission. For two, she wasn't too keen on how the gossip item might have played with her business partners. For three, she says neither she nor her rep got a call for comment (Ivanka, it seems, will not suffer lapses in journalistic ethics—
hot). Mostly, though, "It makes me look like a frivolous person with way too much time on my hands," Trump says.
Asked whether the whole thing could have been the product of an overheard joke at a press event, Trump is doubtful. Her
mother, Ivana, does have a wax figure at the museum but doesn't, to Ivanka's knowledge, actively maintain it. As for her own wax likeness, she says, the
Daily News item was the first she'd ever heard of the idea.
"It's not even on my radar."