Donald Trump Jr.’s apparent new squeeze Bettina Anderson can be seen schmoozing with the former president’s son and his ex-wife and daughter, in new video, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The glamorous Palm Beach socialite, who we recently revealed was spotted locking lips with the engaged father-of-five last month, has now been pictured rubbing elbows with other members of the Trump clan at an intimate party in Jupiter, Florida, in August.
Photos and video shared on Instagram by mommy blogger-turned-Trump campaign reporter Jessica Reed Kraus on Tuesday show Bettina, 37, close to Don Jr. and his former wife Vanessa as the family and other guests are gathered around a fire pit.
The former couple’s eldest child Kai, 17, who made headlines in July after speaking publicly in support of her grandfather at the RNC, can also be seen in the background sharing hugs and kisses with her doting mom and dad.
Anderson’s rumored dalliance with Don Jr. is said to be an open secret in the ritzy Florida town and they have been spotted enjoying each other’s company frequently.
But the unearthed footage suggests the beauty also has a very friendly relationship with his kids and their mother Vanessa, with whom she can be seen sharing a seat on a patio chair and intimately chatting while drinking bottled beer.
Photos and video shared on Instagram show Bettina Anderson, 37, close to Don Jr. and his former wife Vanessa at a party in Jupiter last month
The footage suggests the Palm Beach socialite also has a very friendly relationship with his kids and their mother Vanessa, with whom she was seen sharing a seat on a patio chair and chatting intimately
The former president’s son spoke to guests at the party after making a surprise appearance at mommy blogger-turned-Trump campaign reporter Jessica Reed Kraus’s party
According to Kraus, Don Jr. had made a surprise appearance at the event – hosted by the blogger ‘for her followers in Jupiter’ – showing up with his ex-wife and daughter.
In fact, the only person who seemed to be missing from the family affair was Kimberly Guilfoyle, 57, his fiancée of four years, who is yet to comment publicly on their rendezvous.
The video goes on to show Don delivering a short speech to the crowd, during which he shouts out his teenage daughter as the ‘true star of the RNC’.
The comment prompts cheers and words of encouragement from guests, including Bettina who is seen giving a Kai a congratulatory pat on the arm.
‘I’ve never been more nervous in my life and it wasn’t for me,’ Don Jr. says, adding, ‘but it was almost my most proud moment.’ He then describes the moment he learned his father had been the victim of an assassination attempt.
As a mere multimillionaire Don Jr., 46, is a few zeros short of Anderson’s usual type.
But what he lacks in net worth Don Jr. clearly makes up for in other ways as, DailyMail.com revealed, the Palm Beach socialite planted kiss after kiss on the former president’s son’s lips as the pair canoodled over an intimate brunch in the boujee Florida enclave’s Honor Bar restaurant last month.
Clearly not their first rendezvous, the incident has ‘blindsided’ Guilfoyle and catapulted model, influencer and philanthropist Anderson into the public eye.
So just who is Don Jr.’s glamorous dining companion?
According to those who know her well, while Anderson may not be a household name, she has long been a fixture on Palm Beach’s rarified social scene.
The only person who seemed to be missing from the family affair was fiancée of four years Kimberly Guilfoyle
Bettina is pictured rubbing elbows with other members of the Trump clan at an intimate party in Jupiter, Florida, in August
Palm Beach socialite and philanthropist Bettina Anderson, 37, has been thrust in the spotlight after she was caught kissing Donald Trump Jr. during an intimate lunch last month
With her enviable model’s physique and tawny mane she peppers the pages of Palm Beach’s glossy magazines both in her own right and on the arm of some of the wealthiest men in the country.
According to one insider: ‘Bettina is quite choosy about her men – and in her world many have very deep pockets.’
In recent years Bettina who calls herself ‘aa typical stay at home mom…only I don’t do household chores, or have a husband, or kids,’ has been linked to hedge fund manager and CEO of Citadel LLC Ken Griffin, 55, as well as chewing gum heir, William ‘Beau’ Wrigley Jr, 60.
Griffin, who divorced his wife Anne Dias in 2015, is worth an estimated $43billion. He became infamous during the acrimonious divorce proceedings, when it was revealed that he had removed a bed post and thrown it at Dias during an argument over their pre-nuptial agreement.
Meanwhile, much married Wrigley Jr. is worth a comparatively modest $3.4billion.
He dated Anderson in 2017 following the end of his second marriage from Heather Ann Rosbeck in 2016 and before meeting his third wife, Sue Hostetler, whom he began dating around 2018.
It is all part of a colorful dating history which, by Anderson’s own admission, has included some hair-raising first dates.
Speaking earlier this year in an interview filmed at Palm Beach’s famous Colony Hotel, Anderson said: ‘I’ve had some very cringe blind first dates. One had like a gun on him and $60,000 in cash in a bag.
DailyMail.com can reveal Anderson is no stranger to ritzy surroundings and famous company having been raised alongside her brothers Loy, 47, and Kent, 40, and her three other siblings by their prominent banker father and mother in Palm Beach
Anderson has previously been linked to chewing gum heir, William ‘Beau’ Wrigley Jr, 60, (pictured left with wife Sue) and hedge fund manager and CEO of Citadel LLC Ken Griffin, 55, (pictured right with ex-wife Anne Dias)
Bettina has been linked to Don Jr. after a photo obtained exclusively by DailyMail.com showed the two having an intimate brunch in Palm Beach in mid August – during which they were spotted smooching
As an heir to a prominent businessman and former president, Don Jr. is very familiar with a life of privilege, however, his $200million net worth is modest compared to that of Anderson’s old flames
‘I though he was like running from the government. It was just the strangest thing. I was like texting my friend my location.
‘I’m not kidding, he had a bag, I was like, ‘What’s in there? Do you have like your passport some cash and a gun in there?’ And then he opened it, and he actually did.
‘I was like, “This is a weird thing to bring to lunch.” Welcome to Florida.’
Florida has always been home to Anderson save for seven years during which she studied and lived in New York.
Born in Palm Beach she attended Palm Beach Day School followed by St Andrews School in Boca Raton where fees range from $30,885 a year, for Lower School and Pre-K, to $72,420 for boarding grades 9-12.
She gained a BA in Art History, Criticism and Conservation from Columbia in New York City and lived there for a further three years before the third-generation Palm Beacher returned home.
Today, when she’s not in Florida, according to Anderson, she can be found spearfishing in the Bahamas – the place where she claims to be happiest and her favorite ‘escape.’
It is also a place which has been the focus for much of her philanthropy as a co-founder of The Paradise Fund alongside her brothers Kent, 40, and Loy, 47.
As one of four children of the late Harry Loy Anderson Jr. and his wife Inger, 74, enjoying great wealth and being philanthropic are traits woven into Anderson’s DNA.
Bettina was born and raised in Palm Beach, where she received a private school education, which continued at Columbia University in New York where she spent seven years before returning to her hometown
The 37-year-old socialite is the daughter of Inger Anderson, the widow of Harry Loy Anderson Jr. The mother and daughter posed (right) at Mar-a-Lago last New Year’s Eve
Bettina founded The Paradise Fund with her brothers Loy and Kent Anderson
Today her favorite haunts are the Seafood Bar at Breakers Hotel, Royal Poinciana Plaza where she was caught having brunch with Don Jr, Le Bilboquet restaurant and Palm Beach’s chic Colony Hotel.
But ritzy surroundings and famous company are nothing new to Anderson.
As a child she had lunch with Joe Di Maggio when she was in fourth grade because her father – who became the youngest bank president in the country when he became president of Worth Avenue National Bank at just 26 – was Joltin’ Joe’s banker.
Anderson Jr. was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when he was just 60 years old and died in December 2013, at the age of 70, after a long illness and losing his battle with the disease.
Although primarily a banker he was also a restaurateur, citrus grower and real estate developer.
Bettina’s father imbued in his children the importance of helping those less fortunate.
As a devout member of the Ephesus Seventh Day Adventists Church, he became an elder and taught bible studies in the family home every day.
Bettina founded the Paradise Fund with her brothers in 2005. The non-profit collaborates with leading charities to provide education, health and relief initiatives locally and abroad.
Among other good works it provided first responder flights to the Northern Bahamas in the wake of Hurricanes Dorian, Joaquin and Matthew.
Bettina (right) has five siblings, including her fraternal twin sister Kristina (left)
Her father (left with wife Inger) became president of Worth Avenue National Bank at just 26 – the youngest in the country at the time. He was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s when he was just 60 years old and died in December 2013, at the age of 70
Anderson lives in an $860,000 three-bedroom home in West Palm Beach, some twenty miles south of the $15.5million waterfront home in Jupiter which Don Jr. shares with fiancée Guilfoyle.
Both she and her mother are staunch Republican supporters who have visited Mar-a-Lago.
Earlier this year Anderson boasted her GOP credentials, posting a close-up selfie with Don Jr.’s half-sister, Tiffany Trump, 30, to her Instagram.
Earlier still, her mother posted a picture of herself and Anderson on the steps of Mar-a-Lago at Trump’s 2023 New Year’s Eve celebrations.
Anderson follows both Don Jr. and his 17-year-old budding golf-star daughter, Kai, on Instagram.
Kimberly Guilfoyle is said to be ‘blindsided’ by the photos of her fiancée enjoying an intimate lunch with Bettina Anderson
Meanwhile, her profile with online designer store Moda Operandi – which features her modeling outfits – says, ‘Her style, like her personality, blends flirty femininity with a spicy sense of humor and embraces a broad range of brands.
‘Whether she’s headed out for a night in a show-stopping Oscar de la Renta mini, sporting a Zimmerman one-piece poolside, or hosting at home in a matching set from Cult Gaia, she’s a walking paragon of style.
‘She’s also the perennial “life of the party” defying Palm Beach stereotypes and rewriting the rules of womanhood along the way.’
Her style tip was ‘knowing your body and having confidence in whatever you wear’. And she revealed: ‘I love creating intimate and memorable experiences with friends.’
Certainly, her last outing with Don Jr. is one for the books.
