Melania Trump Net Worth

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Melania Trump, a Slovenian model and former first lady of the United States has an estimated net worth of $50 million.

Melania Trump Biography

Melania Trump is President Donald Trump’s third wife,  a Slovenian-American former model and entrepreneur. She served as First Lady of the United States from 2017 to 2021.

Melania Trump Age

Melania Trump was born Melanija Knavs on April 26, 1970 in Sevnica. As of 2023 she is 53 years old.

Melania Trump Family

For a state-owned automaker, her father Viktor Knavs oversaw car and motorcycle dealerships. Amalija, her mother, was a patternmaker for the company that produced children’s clothing.
Melanija used to take part in fashion shows that featured children’s clothing when she was young, along with other kids whose parents worked at the factory. She has an older half-brother from her father’s first marriage as well as an artist sister named Ines.

Knavs moved to a two-story home in Sevnica with her family when she was a teenager. She resided in a high-rise apartment in Ljubljana when she was a high school student. She attended the city’s Secondary School of Design and Photography and spent one year at the University of Ljubljana majoring in architecture and design before quitting.

Before relocating to New York City in 1996, Melania Trump lived in Milan and Paris as a fashion model through agencies. She was born and raised in Slovenia. Irene Marie Models and Trump Model Management were her agents.

Melania Trump Spouse

She got married to television personality and real estate developer Donald Trump in 2005 and their son Barron was born in 2006. She naturalized as an American citizen later that year. She is the first non-native English speaker to serve as First Lady and the second naturalized woman after Louisa Adams.

Melania Trump Career

At the age of 5, Melania began modeling, and at the age of 16, she started posing for fashion photographer Stane Jerko and doing commercial work. When she was 18 years old, she joined a modeling agency in Milan and finished second in “Jana Magazine’s” 1992 “Look of the Year” contest. Paolo Zampolli, the co-owner of Metropolitan Models, introduced Trump to her in 1995 and offered her representation if she immigrated to the United States. The following year, she relocated to Manhattan, where Zampolli arranged for her to share an apartment with photographer Matthew Atanian in the Zeckendorf Towers. The French men’s magazine “Max” published pornographic images of Melania with another model in January of that year.

Melania starred as herself in the 2001 movie “Zoolander” and made appearances on her husband’s NBC reality series “The Apprentice” from 2004 to 2015. Before relocating to the United States in 1996 to pursue modeling in York City, Trump modeled in Paris and Milan. She has appeared on the covers of numerous magazines, including “Vogue,” “Harper’s Bazaar,” “InStyle,” “Vanity Fair,” and “Glamour.” She came under fire in 2016 after it appeared that parts of a speech she delivered at the Republican National Convention were lifted from Michelle Obama’s 2008 speech at the Democratic Convention.

Trump created the Melania Skin Care Collection and launched a jewelry line called Melania Timepieces & Jewelry with QVC in 2010, but in 2017 the companies that made the products severed their ties with her. Her business ventures earned royalties between $15,000 and $50,000 in 2016, according to a financial filing.