How much money would Melania get if she divorced Donald Trump?
The amount is at the center of the wave of rumors and speculation circulating in the US about the end of the presidential marriage.
In addition to losing the US election, Donald Trump could be close to being a divorced man again. Rumors in Washington state that Melania Trump is "counting the minutes" to separate from the president, after spending 4 years in the eye of the hurricane due to her role as First Lady. The obvious question is how much money the former model will receive.
Naturally, the tabloids and entertainment shows are the first to jump on the speculation train as to what might happen. At the center of all the debates is an issue that will be central to the divorce being arranged in the most discreet way possible: money.
As expected, the wave of rumors around the amount has already started, and there is no sign that it will stop. According to a source quoted in the British tabloid Mirror, Melania could receive around $ 50 million if she divorces Donald Trump. In the same way, she would be allowed to keep the jewelry that she received as a gift throughout the marriage.
The same source stated that, although it is a significant amount of money, it would not be enough for Melania to maintain the lifestyle she was used to in New York. In that sense, the final figure may be even higher.
The custody of Barron, their son, would surely fall to her, and he would be given visitation rights.
Prenuptial agreements
Like the current US president's two previous wives, Melania signed a prenuptial agreement before getting married.
Trump's first ex-wife, Ivanka, would have received $ 14 million, an apartment in New York and a mansion in Connecticut after their divorce in 1992. Marla Maples, the president's second wife, would have received only $ 2 million.
However, that first agreement between Melania and Donald Trump, which was forged in 2004 when the current scenario was not on anyone's radar, would have been modified after the magnate's triumph in the 2016 elections.
In the book The Art of Her Fix: Melania Trump's Untold Story, The Washington Post journalist Mary Jordan claimed that Melania used the election win as an opportunity to change the terms of that prenup.
Apparently, the first agreement they both signed would not have been very generous to Melania. The victory in the elections, with the consequent drastic change that this would mean for both of them, added to the humiliations she suffered due to the revelations that appeared during the campaign of her husband's statements where she claimed to be able to grab women "by the vagina", they would have provided the weapons with which to negotiate a new agreement.
In fact, the delay in her arrival in Washington in 2017 would have been because she wanted it to be established in writing that she would be protected from a financial point of view, and that her son Barron would have the same inheritance rights as the four. older brothers of hers.
It must also be said that the rumors about Melania Trump's desire to divorce her husband are not new. In her 2018 book, former Donald Trump assistant Omarosa Manigault-Newman (who became known for working on the Trump-created show The Apprentice) had already said that Melania was looking forward to a divorce as soon as possible. .
