Trump's messy divorce from first wife recounted in new book

FILE - In this May 9, 2016 file photo, Ivana Trump, ex-wife of former U.S. president Donald Trump, attends the Fashion Institute of Technology Annual Gala benefit in New York. (Photo by Michael Zorn / Invision / AP, File)

NEW YORK - A new book from Donald Trump's first wife pulls back the curtain on a tumultuous period of the president's life, including the messy divorce that was splashed across New York's tabloids for weeks.

Ivana Trump, who was married to the real estate magnate from 1977 to 1992, writes in "Raising Trump" that she knew her marriage was over soon after a day in December 1989.

"This young blonde woman approached me out of the blue and said 'I'm Marla and I love your husband. Do you?"' writes Ivana Trump. "I said 'Get lost. I love my husband.' It was unladylike but I was in shock."

Trump's public affair with Marla Maples spawned the infamous "Best Sex I've Ever Had" headline in the New York Post in 1990. After divorcing his first wife, Trump married Maples in 1993.

"Raising Trump" is set to be released next week. The Associated Press purchased an early copy.

In the book, Ivana writes glowingly about her marriage to Trump and her prominent role at the Trump Organization. But then she unburdens herself about the heartache that Trump's affair with Maples caused her and the couple's three children, Donald Jr., Ivanka and Eric. Donald Jr. didn't speak to his father for a year after the split.