Melania Trump’s ex-pal of ’15 years’ hits back at claims they ‘hardly knew each other’ saying ‘I was at your WEDDING’
THE ex-friend of Melania Trump who penned an explosive tell-all book has hit back at the first lady's claims that they "hardly knew each other".
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff claims she had a 15-year friendship with Melania - even attending her wedding to Donald Trump.
“I find it puzzling that the First Lady of the United States asked someone she ‘hardly knew’ to attend her nuptials, join her for countless lunches, help plan the presidential inauguration, stay over at the White House and Mar-a-Lago, and act as her senior advisor,” Wolkoff said in a statement first obtained by .
Wolkoff added that she wrote the book “to share with the public my experience of working with Melania, our fifteen-year friendship, and her ultimate betrayal.”
"This portrait is not all flattering but it’s the truth and Americans deserve the truth about the occupants of the White House,” stated Wolkoff, who was an adviser to Trump.
“This is a woman who secretly recorded our phone calls, releasing portions from me that were out of context, then wrote a book of idle gossip trying to distort my character,” Trump stated about Wolkoff.
Wolkoff’s book, published last month, made claims about the first lady’s icy relationship with first daughter , her disdain for some of her official duties and her true beliefs about immigrant children who were separated from their parents at the border.
President ’s Justice Department sued Wolkoff earlier this week, accusing her of breaking a non-disclosure agreement and failing to submit a draft to the government for review before publication.
The lawsuit stated that Wolkoff had “access to significant confidential information related to the First Lady’s official duties as well as to more private aspects of her role in the First Family.”
Wolkoff was Melania Trump’s first hire, but stopped working with the White House in early 2018 after reports emerged that her company gained $26 million for helping to plan Donald Trump’s inauguration events.