Wolkoff claimed that Ivanka and her husband Jared Kushner, both White House staffers, were always on the lookout for opportunities to diminish and “control” Melania, even trying to snap up office space in the East Wing during the presidential transition. “It’s unfortunate and concerning that she’s overstated their friendship and her very brief role in the White House to this degree,” Grisham said. The first lady’s chief of staff, Stephanie Grisham, told CNN on Sunday that Wolkoff’s book is “just not truthful” and called it “an exercise in bizarre twisting of the truth and misguided blame for the sake of self-pity.” Trump’s attention – who does not tolerate that kind of behavior.” The official added, “It had to be brought to Mrs. “She inflated her relationship with the first lady,” along with other behaviors that irked the East Wing, the official said. The excerpt from Wolkoff’s new book details the bad blood between Melania and Ivanka – whom Melania, according to Wolkoff, has referred to as “Princess.”Īn administration official took aim at Wolkoff’s character, saying her behavior was “the complete opposite of Mrs. In February 2018, the East Wing announced it had “severed the gratuitous services contract with Ms. As investigations into inaugural activities progressed, the eye-popping sum Wolkoff’s firm was paid – nearly $26 million – caused a rift with the Trump family.Īll but $1.6 million of that payment went to subcontractors and vendors. She was Melania’s first hire in the East Wing and worked unpaid as a special government employee. Wolkoff, a former director of special events for Vogue magazine who oversaw events like the Met Gala and helped organize events around Trump’s inauguration, has known Melania for more than a decade. But in our minds, Ivanka shouldn’t have made herself the center of attention in her father’s inauguration.” Wolkoff wrote, “We were all exhausted and stressed out. In her forthcoming book, “Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady,” Wolkoff details the painstaking efforts she and, allegedly, Melania took to block Ivanka from appearing in photos of President Donald Trump’s swearing in at the inauguration, according to an excerpt published Wednesday in New York Magazine. Melania Trump’s former confidant Stephanie Winston Wolkoff is dishing out a behind-the-scenes look at the allegedly contentious relationship between the first lady and first daughter Ivanka Trump.
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