The next day, another foreign news aggregator, this time from India, claimed “Ivana Trump was cremated Wednesday at the NYC Catholic Church,” and again, offered no evidence or sourcing.
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By the next day, the rumor migrated to Twitter, with a number of low-engagement tweets claiming that Ivana had been cremated, talking about it as if it was common knowledge. But even that wasn’t enough to make the rumor get much traction.
On July 23, the first truly viral tweet alleging Ivana’s cremation started to spread, from New York-based photojournalist Sandi Bachom, who claimed in a reply to another tweet raising suspicions about Ivana actually being dead, saying that “she was cremated and they brought her in a huge gold casket.”
