The Story Behind Trump's Infamous 'Best Sex I Ever Had' Headline

Former New York Post journalist speaks out about the famous story—and, yes, the backstory is just as ridiculous as you'd imagine.

JAMIE ROSS
04.12.18 11:53 AM ET

Of all the column inches dedicated to Donald Trump over the past decades—so many that they’re best measured in units of length longer than the height of Trump Tower—one headline stands above all others in the memory: the 1990 New York Post front page with the now-president’s second wife claiming he’s the “best sex I’ve ever had,” next to a photo of his beaming, proud face.

A former New York Post journalist, Jill Brooke, spilled the beans Thursday about how one of the most famous tabloid headlines in U.S. history came to be—and the backstory is just as ridiculous as you imagined.

In a column for The Hollywood Reporter about her run-ins with Trump and his three wives as a New York Post journalist over the years, Brooke recounted when Trump was going through a divorce with first wife, Ivana, who was winning the PR war against him, much to his chagrin.

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One day, angered by a particularly sympathetic New York Daily News front-page story on Ivana, the aggrieved real-estate mogul called the New York Post office. “Those fucking bitches,” Trump allegedly bellowed over the speakerphone in Post editor Jerry Nachman’s office, referring to rival Daily News: “I want a front-page story tomorrow.”

Nachman, a wily veteran, explained to the future president that you can’t just demand a front-page report whenever you want one—there has to be a story to go alongside it. When Trump asked what would warrant a front page, Brooke recalled how the New York Post editor explained further that it would usually be something to do with “murder, money or sex.”

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