https://www.mercurynews.com/2022/07/14/ivana-trump-stayed-friends-with-trump-even-after-nasty-divorce-rape-allegations-marla-maples/ > After Donald Trump became president, his ex-wife, Ivana Trump, talked a lot about about how they put behind the pain caused by his affair with Marla Maples and their nasty 1990 divorce to become great friends in the last years of her life. > Ivana Trump, who died Thursday at age 73, also came forward in 2015 to deny that she ever accused Trump of raping her during their marriage. According to a Daily Beast story published after Trump announced he was running for president in 2015, Ivana made the assault allegations while giving a deposition during for their contentious divorce proceedings. But Ivana Trump said the story was “without merit” and she never meant the word “rape” to be taken literally, the New York Times reported.