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The Washington Post reported that the government has begun deportation proceedings against Cooke’s wife, Marlene Chalmers Cooke, for her past involvement with a drug-smuggling ring.

The newspaper said that the Immigration and Naturalization Service will issue a document this week amounting to an indictment of the Bolivian-born woman.

Chalmers is Cooke’s fourth wife, having married him in 1990 when she was 37 and he was 77.

The deportation procedure stems from a 1986 guilty plea she entered in a cocaine-smuggling case, the newspaper said. She agreed to cooperate with investigators and appeared before a grand jury in the case, according to court documents cited by the Post.

She was sentenced to six months in prison after pleading guilty to a lesser charge of conspiracy to import less than a kilogram of cocaine, but served only four months.