{"id":898742,"date":"2026-09-17T04:20:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898742\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T04:20:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T04:20:14","slug":"who-is-bettina-trump-donald-trump-jr-s-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/898742\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Is Bettina Trump, Donald Trump Jr.&#8217;s Wife?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kremlev, head of the International Boxing Association, has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In September, <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/donald-trump-jr-wedding-bankrolled-russian-oligarch-umar-kremlev-putin\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\" rel=\" nofollow noopener\">ProPublica<\/a> reported that he had paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund the Trumps&#8217; lavish wedding celebrations, including renting out the private island and staging a fireworks show.<\/p>\n<p>In an <a target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DdRVuhhGxFy\" data-track-click=\"{&quot;click_type&quot;:&quot;other&quot;,&quot;element_name&quot;:&quot;body_link&quot;,&quot;event&quot;:&quot;outbound_click&quot;}\" rel=\" nofollow noopener\">Instagram post<\/a>, Bettina Trump confirmed that Kremlev had paid for the two-day party, which she characterized as separate from the wedding ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our dear friend Umar very generously hosted two incredible nights of celebrations for us AFTER our wedding,&#8221; she wrote in a post on her account signed by her and Trump Jr. &#8220;It was an extraordinarily generous wedding gift from a friend, and something for which we were and remain incredibly grateful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The ProPublica report raised concerns about a Russian oligarch and Putin ally gaining access to the president&#8217;s son, which Bettina Trump dismissed in the post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s unfortunate that something so personal and happy can be recast as something political or sinister simply because of who someone is or where they come from,&#8221; she wrote, adding, &#8220;sometimes a wedding gift is simply a wedding gift.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: This story was originally published in January 2025. It was most recently updated in September 2026.<\/p>\n<p>                                  <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kremlev, head of the International Boxing Association, has close ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In September, ProPublica&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":898743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-898742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=898742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/898742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=898742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=898742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=898742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}