[1] She was the leader of the far-left Yugoslav United Left (JUL) which governed in coalition with Milošević's Socialist Party of Serbia in the aftermath of the Bosnian War.

[3] Marković was accused of abuse of office, inciting several associates to allocate a state-owned apartment for her grandson’s nanny in September 2000.

In June 2018, she was declared guilty in absentia by a court in Belgrade, and sentenced to a year's imprisonment,[4] but the verdict was overturned on appeal in March 2019.

[3] The couple had two children, son Marko and daughter Marija, who founded TV Košava in 1998 and was its owner until the overthrow of Milošević on 5 October 2000.

[8] She was believed, though not formally accused, of being involved in the murders of her husband's political rivals including the Serbian politician Ivan Stambolić, Milošević's former mentor, in 2000, and the journalist Slavko Ćuruvija the previous year.

Vojislav Šešelj appeared before a court on 18 June 1994 to face charges of breaking microphone cables in Parliament.

Marković replied by calling Šešelj a "primitive Turk who is afraid to fight like a man, and instead sits around insulting other people's wives.

Commenting on her husband's arrest to face war crimes charges, Marković stated: Neither East nor West has betrayed him.

[14][15] After the 2012 elections, a government minister, Milutin Mrkonjić of the Socialist Party (which he co-founded with Milošević) said that Marković and her son were welcome to return.

[16] In June 2018, Marković was found guilty in absentia of real estate fraud charges, and sentenced to a year in prison.

[4] The Serbian Appeals Court in March 2019 rejected her conviction, finding it unsound, and ordered a new trial.