Ivana Trump, first wife of Donald Trump, dies aged 73

Donald Trump has announced the death at 73 of Ivana Trump, his first wife and the mother of his three oldest children, Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric.

Ivana Trump was born in Zlin, in what is now the Czech Republic, in 1949. She became a skier, ski instructor and model, and married Donald Trump, then a New York real estate magnate, in 1977.

The New York Office of Chief Medical Examiner said it would investigate.

In Raising Trump, a memoir published in 2017, when her former husband was in the White House, Ivana Trump referred derogatorily to Maples.

A 1993 biography, Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J Trump, contained details from a sworn divorce deposition in which Ivana Trump said her husband raped her.

Cohen later apologised for that remark. He also threatened legal action, which did not ensue.