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What Melania wants, Melania gets.
The former director of special events at Vogue and producer of nine legendary Met Galas, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff met Melania Knauss in 2003 and had a front row seat to the transformation of Donald Trump's then girlfriend from a rough-cut gem to a precious diamond. As their friendship deepened over lunches at Manhattan hot spots, black-tie parties, and giggle sessions in the penthouse at Trump Tower, Wolkoff watched the newest Mrs. Trump raise her son, Barron, and manage her highly scrutinized marriage.
After Trump won the 2016 election, Wolkoff was recruited to help produce the 58th Presidential Inaugu-ration and to become the First Lady's trusted advisor. Melania put Wolkoff in charge of hiring her staff, organizing her events, helping her write speeches, and creating her debut initiatives. Then it all fell apart when she was made the scapegoat for inauguration finance irregularities. Melania could have defended her innocent friend and confidant, but she stood by her man, knowing full well who was really to blame. The betrayal nearly destroyed Wolkoff.
In this candid and emotional memoir, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff takes you into Trump Tower and the White House to tell the funny, thrilling, and heartbreaking story of her intimate friendship with one of the most famous women in the world, a woman few people truly understand.
How did Melania react to the Access Hollywood tape and her husband's affair with Stormy Daniels? Does she get along well with Ivanka? Why did she wear that jacket with "I really don't care, do u?" printed on the back? Is Melania happy being First Lady? And what really happened with the inauguration's funding of $107 million? Wolkoff has some ideas...
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Tonight at 9PM ET on MSNBC: Stephanie Winston Wolkoff. Her new book, "Melania and Me" is about her friendship with the First Lady (and its end)... But it's also the most detailed story of the 2016 Trump inaugural scandal that we've yet had from any source. See you at 9ET...
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Great work @SWinstonWolkoff! Your book "Melania and Me" has been featured in the list of best Political Biography books of all time! https://t.co/GkAuc66KqX
Author of MELANIA AND ME: The Rise & Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady. #1 NYT Best Seller. swinstonwolkoff@mstdn.party
BS! How do I know? I was there! Melania slept in her bedroom in the WH. I slept in my bedroom in the WH above her. I accompanied Melania & her mother to the Holocaust Museum. I wrote about it in my book Melania and Me. https://t.co/87JCCyPQyB
"Winston Wolkoff's book is unique in the landscape of books about the Trumps, as the first insider's look at the first lady's private world."
--The Washington Post
"The third of the big unauthorized Melania explainers, after Free, Melania by Kate Bennet in 2019 and The Art of Her Deal by Mary Jordan, which was published earlier this year, Melania & Me may also be the most revealing."
--The New York Times
"Wolkoff's book is remarkable both for its intimacy and for the sheer volume of receipts it contains. It's also the first real look at what's under Melania Trump's hood--which, in Wolkoff's telling, is surprisingly callous and ugly."
--Vanity Fair's The Hive
"epic scream of a tell-all"
--New York Times Book Review
"...scathing tell-all."
--People.com
"The first lady's former aide shares juicy tales of backbiting, inauguration chaos, and why Melania wouldn't use Michelle Obama's bathroom."
--Vice New