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babylonsister

(170,964 posts)
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 07:58 AM Jul 2020

Melania Trump's former friend and adviser set to publish 'explosive' tell-all book

I want to know what she did with that $26M?

https://theweek.com/speedreads/923979/melania-trumps-former-friend-adviser-set-publish-explosive-tellall-book

Melania Trump's former friend and adviser set to publish 'explosive' tell-all book
12:11 a.m.
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff.
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President Trump can breathe a sigh of relief — the latest tell-all book from a member of his orbit isn't about him, but rather first lady Melania Trump.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former friend and senior adviser to Melania Trump, is writing a memoir that will detail their 15-year relationship, from beginning to implosion. Melania and Me is due to hit shelves on Sept. 1, Vanity Fair's Emily Jane Fox reports, and will be published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster — the same company behind former National Security Adviser John Bolton's The Room Where it Happened and the upcoming Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, written by the president's niece, Mary Trump.

Wolkoff, a former special events director at Vogue, helped plan the 2017 inauguration, and soon after became a senior adviser to the first lady. Her time in the White House was short-lived; she was ousted in February 2018 after it was revealed that the Trump inaugural committee paid her firm $26 million to assist with the inauguration.

Wolkoff told The New York Times in 2019 that she had been "thrown under the bus." Time has evidently not healed all wounds, as people with knowledge of Melania and Me told The Daily Beast it is "largely negative," "explosive," and "heavily trashes the first lady."
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Melania Trump's former friend and adviser set to publish 'explosive' tell-all book (Original Post) babylonsister Jul 2020 OP
The lawyers over at Simon & Schuster must really have his number! Maru Kitteh Jul 2020 #1
I thought that payment of $26M was being investigated. It never made sense from the get-go. Frustratedlady Jul 2020 #2
She says she paid out most of the funds and then got left holding the bag. Eugene Jul 2020 #3
This is even weirder than it looks-- Wolkoff was not that long ago an acolyte of... TreasonousBastard Jul 2020 #4

Maru Kitteh

(28,303 posts)
1. The lawyers over at Simon & Schuster must really have his number!
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 08:04 AM
Jul 2020


Any book about the Trumps is a book about Donald. I'm happy to see the whole rancid lot of them dragged in the mud.


Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
2. I thought that payment of $26M was being investigated. It never made sense from the get-go.
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 08:10 AM
Jul 2020

Funny that she turned against her "good" friend. Maybe they took her $26M away?

TreasonousBastard

(43,049 posts)
4. This is even weirder than it looks-- Wolkoff was not that long ago an acolyte of...
Tue Jul 7, 2020, 08:51 AM
Jul 2020

Anna Wintour with the wits to run the Met Gala, no small thing at all. She also had a tie-in to the Harry Winston family, which means many good things for anyone with such good luck. And she married a NY real estate big shot.

But, reading between the lines, there's something off about her. Her limousine liberal friends and fashionistas told her Melania was the kiss of death, but they hit it off anyway. Were they really such tight friends? What does it take for such a connected person to do this to her old pal?

Ultimately, I suppose I don't really give a shit, but it's alway sfun reading about the foibles of the rich&famous.

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