Maryanne Trump Barry, Donald Trump’s older sister, has died at 86: sources

Maryanne Trump Barry, the older sister of former President Donald Trump and a former federal judge, has died, according to sources. He was 86 years old.

She was discovered in her Fifth Avenue apartment around 4 a.m., sources told ABC News. There were no signs of trauma or foul play.

Emergency crews responded to a call of a person in cardiac arrest, sources said.

A spokesman for former President Trump declined to comment.

Barry was Chief Judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit until her retirement in 2019. She was appointed to the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1983 and was then appointed to the US. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in 1999 by then-President Bill Clinton.

Barry retired amid a judicial misconduct investigation related to alleged fraudulent financial and tax transactions by his father and siblings. The investigation was closed without a conclusion when Barry retired in February 2019.

Three of the president’s four brothers are now dead. Robert Trump, his younger brother, He died in August 2020 at the age of 71. Fred Trump Jr. died of a heart attack aged just 42 in September 1981.

The former president’s relationship with his older sister was strained toward the end of Trump’s presidency when Donald Trump’s niece, Mary, published in her book and released audio recordings she made of her aunt, Maryanne, hitting her younger brother.

“All he wants to do is appeal to his base,” Barry said in a conversation secretly recorded by his niece as reported by The Washington Post in August 2020. “He has no principles. None. None. And his base, I mean my God, if you were a religious person, you want to help people. Don’t do this.”

But the brothers had been on the road to patching things up, sources told ABC News, and were seen as recently as this summer at Trump’s club in Bedminster, New Jersey.