Ivana Trump’s ex-husband called police on himself to report that he was driving drunk, newly discovered court papers show.
And when police arrived at the scene, Rossano Rubicondi took a swig of booze and begged a cop to put him behind bars.
‘He stated he wanted to go to jail because he was drunk,’ a Palm Beach County sheriff’s officer wrote in his report of the incident that occurred nearly a year ago.
‘[H]e drank what appear (sic) to be an alcoholic drink out of a glass while I made contact with him,’ wrote the cop.
Rubicondi is the fourth — and most recent — of Ivana’s four exes. They married in April 2008 and despite divorcing the following year, they remain on-again-off-again lovers.
Ivana Trump and Rossano Rubicondi were spotted together in Saint Tropez, France last year, months before he called police on himself to report that he was driving drunk in his Mercedes SUV, newly discovered court papers show
When police arrived Rubicondi, 45, took a swig of booze and begged a cop to put him behind bars
When the sheriff’s officer asked him to start the roadside sobriety tests, Rubicondi said he could not. ‘[He just wanted me to take him to jail because he was drunk,’ wrote the officer. ‘He had slur (sic) speech and when he was walking towards my car he could not keep his balance.’
Rubicondi, 45, was arrested in Loxahatchee, Florida, at 3 a.m. on December 8 last year, but the case has never been reported until now. He called the cops himself while he was driving his black 2015 Mercedes SUV.
He told the arresting officer he had been drinking wine and vodka with friends before his arrest.
‘When I made contact with Mr. Rubicondi he had an obvious and strong odor of an unknown alcoholic beverage coming from his person and face,’ wrote the officer. ‘When he walked from his car to my car he was not stable. He kept moving side to side as he walked. When I told him to stand straight and put his hands on his side he could not do that either.’
A breath test showed he had a blood-alcohol level or .140 — nearly twice the legal limit. Rubicondi was described as ‘very cooperative’ in the police report.
He later pleaded guilty to reckless driving and was given 12 months’ probation on condition he enroll in a DUI school. He was also ordered not to drink alcohol during his probation period which runs out next July, fined $543.50, ordered to perform 50 hours of community service and his license was suspended for six months.
Rubicondi, an Italian national, did not return DailyMail.com’s calls for comment.
Rubicondi, who lived in Miami at the time of his arrest, married the 23-years-older Ivana at Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach before 500 guests. The now-president was there to see his ex-wife tie the knot 17 years after he had divorced her so he could marry his mistress Marla Maples.
Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. gave their mother away at the $3 million Midsummer Night’s Dream-themed ceremony. Ivanka Trump was maid of honor, and the president’s sister, Judge Maryanne Trump Barry officiated.
Ivana and Rubicondi attend the 60th Red Cross Ball, in Monaco in 2008 the same year they were married at Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach before 500 guests
A 24-piece orchestra was flown in from Paris and 12-foot-high cake came all the way from Germany. Rubicondi slipped a $1 million diamond ring on Ivana’s finger, according to a report in People Magazine http://people.com/celebrity/ivana-trump-marries-for-the-fourth-time/ at the time.
But trouble was already brewing. Cops were called on the night before the wedding after the bride and groom got into a fight.
They had been dating for six years but the actual marriage only lasted for five months before Ivana filed for separation. ‘It has become increasingly difficult for us to find time together,’ Ivana, now 68, said in a statement.
But the couple has remained close since the official split. They were pictured together on two vacations in 2013 — first in the French millionaires’ playground of St. Tropez and a month later on the Italian island of Sardinia.
Three years later they were again spotted together in St. Tropez — on the very night that Ivana’s second husband officially accepted the Republican nomination for president.
And earlier this month they were seen strolling arm-in-arm through the streets of Manhattan.
Last year Rubicondi announced he planned to open a pizza joint in West Palm Beach not far from Mar-a-Lago, but plans fell through. ‘We were going to open on Labor Day, but things happened and I had to get out of the lease,’ he told the New York Daily News.
Instead he said he had relocated to New York and planned to open the business ‘Rossano To Go!’ in Manhattan by January next year.