What did the New York City Office of Chief Medical Examiner's public statement include word-for-word about Ivana Trump's death?

1. The exact language reported by outlets

Several news organizations quoted the OCME identically, stating: "The Medical Examiner has determined her cause of death was an accident caused by blunt impact injuries to her torso. Having released this determination, OCME will not comment further on the investigation," a formulation that appears in CBC and was cited by others ^{[1] [2]}. That quoted sentence specifies both the cause ("blunt impact injuries to her torso") and the manner ("an accident") and adds the OCME’s refusal to provide further public comment ^[1].

2. How outlets framed the OCME finding in one line

News organizations consistently framed the OCME’s determination as a blunt-impact, accidental death and reported that officials linked the injuries to a fall, with several outlets saying she was found near the bottom of a staircase ^{[5] [6]}. Reuters, NBC New York, ABC News and others relayed the OCME’s wording and paired it with law-enforcement details that the scene suggested a fall and that the death was not suspicious ^{[3] [2] [5]}.

3. Corroboration across multiple reporters and agencies

Major wire services and local outlets reproduced the OCME’s quoted sentence or close paraphrases — Reuters used the phrasing that she "died as a result of an accident after suffering blunt force trauma injuries to her torso," while NBC New York and Politico relayed the same cause-and-manner determination ^{[3] [2] [7]}. CN B C and Fox 5 New York printed nearly identical language, confirming the same two elements: blunt impact/force trauma to the torso and an accidental manner ^{[1] [8]}.

4. What the OCME statement did not say — and how outlets filled gaps

The OCME’s reported sentence did not provide specifics such as whether the blunt impact injuries were definitively from a fall, the exact location on the torso, contributing medical conditions, or a full autopsy report; outlets therefore paired the quoted OCME line with police accounts that she was found in close proximity to a staircase and with unnamed officials who said circumstances were consistent with a fall ^{[6] [5] [2]}. The OCME’s explicit line, "Having released this determination, OCME will not comment further on the investigation," was regularly cited to explain that no additional detail would be forthcoming from the office ^{[1] [2]}.

5. Variations in wording and journalistic paraphrase

Some outlets paraphrased rather than quoting the OCME verbatim, writing that she "died from blunt force injuries to her torso" or that the death "was ruled an accident," language that conveys the same core determinations but omits the OCME’s public-declination clause ^{[9] [7]}. Others added context from police or family statements — for example, reporting she was found at the bottom of stairs — which, while widely reported alongside the OCME quote, are separate statements sourced to law enforcement and family spokespeople ^{[5] [10]}.

6. Limits of available reporting and why precise quotation matters

The available sources consistently provide the same short OCME sentence, so the quoted wording above is the best-supported public, word-for-word statement by the medical examiner’s office in reporting ^{[1] [2]}. The reporting does not include a fuller OCME autopsy report or medical examiner’s supplemental narrative in the cited sources, so any further medical detail or internal reasoning beyond the quoted sentence is not present in these articles ^{[1] [3]}.