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    Melania Trump has a 'transactional marriage' according to Ms Wilkoff. Archived Message

    Posted by Mary on October 3, 2020, 7:29 pm

    BBC Newsnight

    Melania Trump has 'a transactional marriage', says ex-aide Stephanie Winston Wolkoff -
    11 Sep 2020




    'Who is Stephanie Winston Wolkoff?
    She is the 49-year-old, 6-foot-1 former director of special events at Vogue (a.k.a., lord chief planner of the Met Gala), former fashion director of Mercedes-Benz New York Fashion Week at Lincoln Center, executive producer and chief creative officer for the Trump inauguration, and ex-Trusted Advisor to the first lady (among other things).'

    She moved up in the world.

    'Ms. Winston Wolkoff grew up in the Catskills along with two brothers (one of whom is the actor Randall Batinkoff). Her mother, Barbara Batinkoff, was a homemaker, and her father, Barry Batinkoff, was a photographer from a line of chicken farmers.'

    But then had a great fall like Humpty Dumpty.

    'This all ended in February 2018, when Ms. Winston Wolkoff resigned after revelations that her firm was paid nearly $26 million to plan the inauguration. She called the media’s coverage of the payout “completely unfair,” and in the book asserts that it was inaccurate and she left because she had been scapegoated and used by the administration.

    “Was I fired? No,” Ms. Winston Wolkoff said more than a year later. “Did I personally receive $26 million or $1.6 million? No. Was I thrown under the bus? Yes.”'

    https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/style/stephanie-winston-wolkoff-melania-trump.html

    Good old Anglo Saxon names there. Not.

    $26million. Incredible.

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