Melania Trump's Net Worth

What is Melania Trump’s Net Worth? Melania Trump, former model and third wife of Donald Trump, the 45th President of the United States of America, was born as Melanija Knavs on April 26, 1970 in Novo Mesto, Slovenia. Trump became a permanent resident of the United States in 2001 and a citizen in 2006, two years after marrying Donald Trump at the age of 32. The First Lady’s net worth has been estimated to be between $10 million and $50 million. Net worth figures are difficult to verify since there’s no hard data available from Melania herself or from credible sources within the White House administration.

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Facts About Melania Trump

Melania’s Bio: Born in 1970, Melania Knauss grew up in Sevnica, a small town located on a Slovenian river. She left home at an early age to pursue modeling in Italy and became one of Europe’s top models. -Melania Knauss married American businessman Donald Trump in 2005 at Bethesda-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church and took his last name. She launched her own line of jewelry that same year under her new moniker.

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Career Beginnings

A native of Slovenia, Melania Knauss grew up in a small apartment with her mother, father and sister. After completing high school, she moved to Italy to pursue modeling full-time. Knauss worked for several years before landing on runways in Paris and Milan, then traveling to New York City to work for top agencies like Metropolitan Models. She signed with IMG models in 1996 before opening her own modeling agency after six years under contract as a model—Models International Management Agency. In between jobs as a model, Knauss went back to school at The University of Ljubljana to earn her degree in architecture and design.

Modeling Career

There’s a popular misconception that money and wealth are Melania’s motivations for marrying Trump. It makes sense, but there are other incentives at play—reasons we can’t quite wrap our minds around because they defy our understanding of things like loyalty, ambition, or citizenship. But in 2016, Harper’s Bazaar published an interview with Stephanie Winston Wolkoff (the famous event planner) who said: Mrs. Trump has kept her own counsel and only shared her opinions with me privately. What you see on TV is not who she really is; she is not that girl. Mrs.

Other Sources of Income

The First Lady earns some money from her businesses (Melania earned about $100,000 in 2017 from her stake in a large jewelry company and a cut of profits from a family-run hotel). That money goes into a trust that she can’t touch until son Barron finishes school, according to CNN. In addition to these earnings, she also likely receives security and transportation services provided by the federal government. When you add up all of her sources of income, it’s estimated that she earns anywhere between $190,000 and $900,000 per year. The First Lady earned $3 million during her first year as FLOTUS.

Assets & Properties

In an effort to protect her privacy, there’s little information available about Mrs. Trump’s assets and properties. As a private citizen, she was able to protect many of her business deals from public disclosure by using a trust. That being said, it’s still possible to estimate what assets she owns through detailed financial disclosures made as part of her husband Donald Trump’s presidential campaign. Currently, her assets are estimated at approximately $50 million. In addition to that: She has her own clothing line and once received a $1 million advance for a ghostwritten book Melania Moments: 150 Never-Before-Published Memories of a First Lady, which reportedly sold only 1,500 copies according to Nielsen BookScan;

Beauty Brand Sales Accounted For $1.3 Million

The First Lady of America’s net worth has gone up by as much as $1.3 million, according to President Donald Trump’s 2017 financial disclosure form. The increase in her estimated worth comes after her representatives reported that she had raked in between $100,000 and $1 million from selling skin care products under her name. Some people questioned if those earnings were accurate, however; The New York Times analyzed revenue figures for the year ending Dec. 31, 2016 and said sales for these products only amounted to a few hundred thousand dollars.