Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald Trump’s eldest sister and a former federal judge, was found dead in her New York City home early Monday morning, The New York Times and ABC News reported she died at the age of 86.
According to report, Maryanne Trump Barry, 86, was both a protector and critic of her younger brother.
The Authorities is yet reveal the cause of death, but ABC cited sources who said first responders were sent to her Fifth Avenue home around 4 a.m. after they received a call about someone in cardiac arrest. There were reportedly no signs of trauma or foul play.
However, a spokesperson for Trump did not immediately comment, ABC reported, and the former president was yet to make a public statement as of 11 a.m. Monday.
And Barry who is noted to be both a protector and critic of her younger brother, most recently grabbing headlines in 2020 when a recording went viral of her grilling Trump and his base of supporters for having “no principles.”
She is the third of Trump’s four siblings to die. His youngest brother, Robert Trump, died in 2020 at 71. Fred Trump Jr. died after a heart attack in 1981 when he was 42.