Best Sex I've Ever Had

In December 1989, while on a family skiing holiday in Aspen, Colorado, Ivana and Marla Maples had encountered each other for the first time.

[2] A February 11 article by Liz Smith in the New York Daily News had reported that Donald and Ivana Trump were no longer together.

Jill Brooke, the television and radio columnist for the New York Post at the time of the story, recalled in a 2018 article for The Hollywood Reporter that Trump had telephoned the editor of the New York Post, Jerry Nachman, in a rage as a result of an article in the Daily News by Liz Smith that he perceived as sympathetic to Ivana.

[5] Prior to the publication of Brooke's 2018 article, the New York Post reporter Bill Hoffmann had reported that the story had derived from his interview of two of Maples's friends from an acting class that she had been taking, and the friends had told Hoffmann that Maples had confided in them about her and Trump's love affair, and told them that Trump was "the best sex I've ever had".

The Trump stories were described by Kranish and Fisher as having "reached their apex" when the "Best Sex I've Ever Had" headline was printed on the cover of the February 16 edition of the New York Post.

[3] The front-page story that accompanied the headline was written by the New York Post reporter Bill Hoffmann.

[4] The opening text of the article stated "We always knew Donald Trump was a tiger in the corporate board-room but now we know he's a wildcat in the bedroom too".

[4] New York reported that Hoffmann had received interview requests from ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox and CNN following his scoop.

Ivanka was 9 years old at the time of the headline and felt her family's life was "fair game, on full display ...

[9] The headline gained renewed prominence in the wake of Trump's election to the presidency of the United States in 2016.

In 2018, Maples denied that she had said the quote, telling reporters from the New York Post's Page Six gossip column that "I never said that, someone else said that ...[But] is it true?

[7] In 2016 journalist Natasha Stoynoff accused Trump of forcibly kissing her in 2005 during a scheduled interview at Mar-a-Lago.