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Ivanka Trump just made a surprise announcement about her family

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Talk about a lucky dog.

Meet Aspen, the newest canine resident in Indian Creek Village, aka Billionaire Bunker, home to other local big-time celebs like Tom Brady and Jeff Bezos.

The blue-eyed husky belongs to the football legend’s neighbor just down the street: Ivanka Trump.

President Donald Trump’s eldest daughter, 44, introduced the Internet to the furball in an Instagram post.

“Welcome to the family,” wrote the native New Yorker who has three children with husband, businessman Jared Kushner.

Included in the carousel is footage of Aspen playing with the kids, as well as getting to know the couple’s two other dogs, who do a lot of sniffing and barking.

The snowball-white one is Winter, a “Pomsky,” which is a cross between a Siberian Husky and Pomeranian. The pup was a gift to their eldest daughter Arabella for her eighth birthday in 2019.

Also in the mix is Simba, a “big-hearted and goofy” German Shepherd-Lab mix from Big Dog Ranch Rescue in Loxahatchee in western Palm Beach County, Trump announced in late 2023.

We don’t know if Aspen is from the same rescue. Just recently, the shelter held a charity event at POTUS’ Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, attended by under-the-radar actress Katherine Heigl. The “Grey’s Anatomy” star caught so much heat for her appearance at the Wine, Women & Shoes fundraiser that she was forced to release a statement, explaining that her participation had nothing to with politics.

“Animals don’t vote,” she said. “The only room they don’t like is the euthanasia room at a shelter. They are completely at the mercy of us, and they have no voice of their own.”

As for Ivanka Trump, she also got heat for her post about Aspen — totally par for the course when a polarizing figure leaves comments on.

While some followers were congratulatory — including brother Donald Jr.’s fiancée, Bettina Anderson, who gushed “OMG ... so cute!” — others went on the attack.

“How do you sleep at night?” sniped one critic of the former White House advisor who stepped away from the D.C. arena after her father’s second term. In January 2025, before the inauguration, Trump explained her reasoning on the “Him and Her” podcast:

“There’s a darkness in that world that I don’t really want to welcome into mine.”

Madeleine Marr
Miami Herald
Celebrity/real time news reporter Madeleine Marr has been with The Miami Herald since 2003. She has covered such features as travel, fashion and food. In 2007, she helped launch the newspaper’s daily People Page, attending red carpet events, awards ceremonies and press junkets; interviewing some of the biggest names in show business; and hosting her own online show. She is originally from New York City.
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