Former President Donald Trump’s older sister has died.
Maryanne Trump Barry, a former federal court judge, passed away earlier today in New York City. She was 86.
As The New York Times reports on the passing of the 45th president’s sibling:
Ms. Barry died at her home on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, according to two people familiar with the matter. One of them said she had been found early Monday morning. Neither person specified a cause.
Ms. Barry, the widow of John Barry, a veteran trial and appellate lawyer, had been a federal judge in New Jersey, a position that Mr. Trump’s fixer, the lawyer Roy M. Cohn, was credited with helping her attain during President Ronald Reagan’s tenure. She retired from the bench in 2019, at a time when inquiries were brewing after a New York Times investigation into the family’s tax practices.
Mr. Trump seemed to heed the words of few people as much as he did his sister’s, according to confidants. But they had a significant fissure in their relationship in the final year of his presidency, when their niece Mary L. Trump, who was promoting a memoir about their family, released audio recordings of her aunt speaking critically about the president.
Mr. Trump, 77, who is the front-runner for the Republican presidential nomination even as he faces dozens of criminal charges in four cases, has had a number of personal losses in the last several years.
Maryanne was the eldest child of Fred and Mary Anne MacLeod Trump.
After obtaining her Juris Doctor degree from Hofstra University, Maryanne joined the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Jersey, starting her career as one of only two female lawyers out of 62 attorneys.
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