First Lady’s former friend says Donald and Melania Trump’s marriage is a ‘transactional deal’

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First Lady’s former friend says Donald and Melania Trump’s marriage is a ‘transactional deal’
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The ex-best friend of Melania Trump has made some sensational claims about the First Lady’s marriage to the US President.

magazine executive Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who was friends with the First Lady for 15 years before they fell out, insinuated the US President and his model wife were in fact, not in love.

, was released on September 1. It is the first book written about Mrs Trump from someone who has been in her inner circle.“Twenty years ago, she had been a barely-getting-by model in Paris,” she writes in her book, according to an extract published in New York magazine’s Intelligencer section.“On the inauguration program … she wanted to be listed as ‘First Lady-Elect’ even though, as I reminded her, she had not in fact been elected.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff with her ex friend Melania Trump in 2017. Picture: Rex Features / Splash NewsControversy erupted over potential misuse of funds at the time, which was even the subject of a federal investigation, though Ms Winston Wolkoff claims she was a scapegoat for decisions made by the Trump administration.reported her firm had been paid more than $US26 million for its role in the inauguration.that only $US1.62 million went to her company.

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