<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;">Ivana Trump, Donald Trump's first wife, died of "blunt impact injuries" to the torso, the New York City medical examiner's office has said.</span><br></div><div><br></div><div>It added that the death of the 73-year-old on Thursday was accidental.</div><div><br></div><div>Reports in US media say she died after falling down stairs in her New York City apartment.</div><div><br></div><div>Ivana Trump, who was born in what was then Czechoslovakia, married the former president in 1977. They divorced 15 years later in 1992.</div><div><br></div><div>"She was a wonderful, beautiful, and amazing woman, who led a great and inspirational life," Mr Trump said.</div><div><br></div><div>They had three children together - Donald Jr, Ivanka and Eric Trump.</div><div><br></div><div>Donald and Ivana Trump were notable public figures in New York in the 1980s and 1990s, and their split was the subject of intense public interest.</div><div><br></div><div>After their separation, Trump went on to launch her own lines of beauty products, clothing and jewellery.</div><div><br></div><div>She took credit for bringing up their children in her 2017 memoir Raising Trump, saying she "made the decisions about their education, activities, travel, child care, and allowances" until college.</div><div><br></div><div>In the book, she added that her relationship with Mr Trump had improved since their divorce, and said she spoke to him about once a week.</div><div><br></div><div>The Trump family lauded her in a statement as "a force in business, a world-class athlete, a radiant beauty, and caring mother and friend".</div><div><br></div><div>Ivanka Trump, who was said to be very close to her mother, said in an Instagram post she was "heartbroken".</div><div><br></div><div>Donald Trump was Ivana's second husband. Her first, Alfred Winklmayr, was an Austrian ski instructor and friend who she reportedly married in order to obtain Austrian citizenship.</div><div><br></div><div>That marriage allowed her to leave Czechoslovakia, her communist home country, without defecting. - BBC</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>