Melania Trump's former aide to release
'explosive' memoir – report
Book by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a former unpaid
adviser to the first lady, will detail their 15-year friendship
Guardian
staff
Published onTue
7 Jul 2020 00.18 BST
A former
senior aide to Melania Trump who helped oversee Donald Trump’s inauguration has
written an “explosive” memoir detailing her 15-year friendship with the first
lady, according to reports.
Stephanie
Winston Wolkoff was appointed as an unpaid adviser to the first lady shortly
after Donald Trump won the 2016 election, and she played a high-profile role in
helping Melania Trump transition into the White House from New York while
advising her on her political portfolio.
But in
February 2018, Winston Wolkoff was forced out after reports that her firm had
received $26m in payments to help plan Trump’s lavish inauguration ceremony in
2017 and related events. At the time, Winston Wolkoff said the firm had
“retained a total of $1.62m” that was divided among staff. She has since
challenged the notion that she was dismissed and claimed that she was “thrown
under the bus”.
Winston
Wolkoff later cooperated with federal prosecutors in Manhattan who opened an
investigation into whether Trump’s 2017 inaugural committee misspent some of
the record $107m it raised from donations.
The book
will be titled Melania and Me, and published by Gallery Books, an imprint of
Simon & Schuster, on 1 September, Vanity Fair reported.
The memoir
will detail Winston Wolkoff’s time “navigating the White House and East Wing”,
where first ladies have offices (the president works in the West Wing). It will
also include her “journey from their friendship that started in New York to
[Winston Wolkoff’s] role as the First Lady’s trusted advisor to her abrupt and
very public departure, to life after Washington”, according to a description
obtained by the magazine.
Winston
Wolkoff was long considered one of Melania’s closest friends. A socialite, she
previously worked for Vogue and was best known for her role in producing the
Met Gala, the star-studded annual fundraising gala for the benefit of the
Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York.
When the
two parted ways in 2017, she told the New York Times: “I expect to remain a
trusted source for advice and support on an informal basis.”
According
to the Daily Beast, a Google Books description of the book available online
said it would provide “a revealing and explosive portrayal of Stephanie Winston
Wolkoff’s 15-year friendship with Melania Trump and observations of the most
chaotic White House in history”.
STEPHANIE WINSTON WOLKOFF IS COMING OUT WITH
ANOTHER DISHY TRUMP TELL-ALL
Melania’s former right hand will write, among other
things, about her “abrupt and very public” departure from the East Wing after
inauguration chaos.
BY EMILY
JANE FOX
JULY 6,
2020
In the
midst of a presidential election, a global pandemic, an economic downturn, and
nationwide protests over racial injustice, Trumpworld will have another force
to contend with come late summer. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, a close friend and
adviser to first lady Melania Trump, is due to release a book detailing their
15-year-long friendship that culminated in her ousting after she helped plan
the inauguration and served in the East Wing.
Melania and
Me, published by Gallery Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, is due out
on September 1, just a little more than two months before the election. A
description of the book from the publisher says that it will start when Wolkoff
met Melania and became friends, and weave through her help planning the 58th
presidential inauguration, along with “navigating the White House and East
Wing.”
“In her memoir,
Wolkoff chronicles her journey from their friendship that started in New York
to her role as the First Lady’s trusted advisor to her abrupt and very public
departure, to life after Washington, being an advocate for children’s and
women’s causes,” the description reads.
Wolkoff
garnered the spotlight in the past few years, as her intimate knowledge of how
the inaugural committee raised and spent money caught the eyes of investigators
and congressional committees who began looking into how it allocated funds. She
left her position in the East Wing in 2018.
The book
comes on the heels of two other Trump–adjacent memoirs, by John Bolton and Mary
Trump, both of which were also published by Simon & Schuster and both of
which face legal threats from the Trump family.
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