“Melania is counting down the minutes until Donald Trump leaves office so he can get a divorce,” former adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman told the British newspaper ‘Daily Mail’. “If I tried to carry on the ultimate humiliation of leaving while he was exercising, I would end up being punished “, he added.
It is recalled that when she moved to the White House in 2017, the 50-year-old United States first lady made a point of changing the terms of the prenuptial agreement she signed before the wedding, thus raising the bar. millions to receive. In return, she will be prevented from publishing a book or giving interviews about her relationship with Trump, 74, just like Marla Maples, the second wife of the 45th American president.
Aware that the election of Donald Trump would expose her to “constant humiliation”, the old model took months to leave New York to join her husband in the White House, until reaching the intended agreement in case of divorce. Melania also guaranteed the future of her son Barron, aged 14, ensuring that he would be placed on an equal footing with his brothers with regard to his father’s inheritance.
FORTUNE AT RISK
In the short term, however, Trump may be forced to pay Melania close to 42 million euros, a much larger amount than he disbursed with the other two ex-women, Marla Maples (from 1993 to 1999) and Ivana Trump (from 1977 to 1992). Both signed prenuptial agreements, but while Marla only received 1.7 million euros, Ivana managed to keep 11.8 million, as well as a Connecticut mansion and an apartment in the Trump Plaza building in New York.
Although 42 million euros is a lot of money, some experts believe that it will not be enough for Melania to maintain the luxuries to which she is accustomed. “This amount is not enough for her to continue to maintain her lifestyle in New York. The best thing would be to give up some perks and invest part of the fortune,” explains Jacqueline Newman, divorce lawyer at Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd.
However, there are those who believe that once outside the White House, Trump will be at the mercy of finance. It is that, despite having a fortune estimated at around 2.6 billion euros – it is the richest 715th in the world according to ‘Forbes’ – it paid just over 630 euros in taxes in 2016, the year it was elected president, and a similar figure the following year.
IN SEPARATE BEDS
Since Donald Trump took over the presidency there are rumors that his marriage to Melania was experiencing several problems. In fact, the lack of complicity between them was visible in several public commitments, in which the ex-model refused to give her husband a hand.
A source close to the couple even told US Weekly that the two sleep in separate rooms. Even before they moved to the White House, Melania and Donald no longer shared the same bed. “She doesn’t hide it from anyone who feels miserable,” a friend of the former model told the magazine. “Whether in Washington or New York, they never spend the night together. They each sleep in their suite,” he said.
Donald Trump and Melania Knauss met in 1998 at a party in Manhattan. The real estate mogul was separating from the woman and did not hesitate to ask the Slovenian for the phone number. At first, Melania rejected the millionaire’s advances, not least because he was well accompanied that night, but quickly gave in to his advances. The following year, they became a couple, eventually marrying in 2005. The relationship was born Barron, 14, who came to join Trump’s other four children.
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