Audrey Hepburn’s Son Reveals Family Link to Trumps After Ivanka Wore Mom’s Gown

Audrey Hepburn’s son, Sean Hepburn Ferrer, revealed a strange connection between the Trump family and the Hollywood icon after Ivanka Trump channeled his late mother for one of her father’s inaugural balls on Monday.

Speaking to The Daily Mail, Hepburn’s son, whom she had with her first husband Mel Ferrer, recalled how President Donald Trump’s second wife, Marla Maples, was on the advisory board for the Audrey Hepburn Children’s Fund in the early ’90s and that they had celebrated their daughter Tiffany Trump’s first birthday with a charity event titled “Breakfast with Tiffany”—a nod to Hepburn’s classic film.

The outlet also noted that Trump’s first wife and Ivanka’s mother, Ivana, was once in a relationship with Rofredo Gaetani, better known as the son of Hepburn’s close friend, Lorian Gaetani.

Originally designed for Hepburn in 1954, Ivanka wore a recreation of a Givenchy gown seen on Hepburn in her film Sabrina to the Liberty Ball Monday night. In a statement to Vogue, a White House representative said that Ivanka was “honored” to wear the gown and that Hepburn has “long been a personal inspiration” to her.

“It is no wonder that growing up in a family which knew our mother as a household name she chose to draw inspiration from her,” Ferred told The Daily Mail while reflecting on Ivanka’s decision to pay tribute to his late mother. “To seek the ultimate elegance and class reference, for an occasion such as this one — the inauguration and the 32nd anniversary of our mother’s passing and, most of all, Martin Luther King’s day.”

“What a cocktail,” he added, before commenting on his mother’s timeless legacy in Hollywood and her being a continued “anchor” to others in her industry.

“Over the past 71 years her legacy has grown to become trans-generational and transnational,” Ferrer shared.

“Her elegance, which has its roots in her inner beauty and spirit, is often a reference point, an anchor, for many celebrities, actresses and models in these times in which we appear to have somewhat lost our way.”

Despite the Trump family’s previous ties to Hepburn, Ferrer mused that his mother may not have been the biggest fan of the president’s current politics—she “fought on behalf of the disenfranchised children worldwide regardless of the ideological environment in which they were born in,” he said.