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 claim that Melania Trump is "counting down 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 the entertainment programs are the first to jump on the speculation bandwagon as to what might happen. At the center of all the debates lies an issue that will be central so that the divorce can be arranged in the most discreet way possible: money.
As expected, the wave of rumors around the amount has already begun, and shows no signs of stopping. According to a source quoted in the British tabloid Mirror, Melania could receive around 50 million dollars 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, it is possible that the final figure is even higher.
Custody of Barron, their son, would surely fall to her, and he would be given visitation rights.
Prenuptial Agreements
Like the two previous wives of the current US president, Melania signed a prenuptial agreement before getting married.
Trump's first ex-wife, Ivanka, would have received 14 million dollars, an apartment in New York and a mansion in Connecticut after her divorce in 1992. Marla Maples, the second wife of the president, would have received only 2 million in Dollars.
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 tycoon's victory in the 2016 elections.
In the book The Art of Fixing Her: The Untold Story of Melania Trump, journalist Mary Jordan of The Washington Post claimed that Melania used the election victory as an opportunity to change the terms of that prenuptial agreement.
Apparently, the first agreement that both signed would not have been very generous with Melania. The victory in the elections, with the consequent drastic change that this would mean for both of them, added to the humiliation she suffered due to the revelations that appeared during the campaign of her husband's declarations where he 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 financially protected, and that her son Barron would have the same hereditary rights as the four her older brothers.
It must also be said that the rumors about Melania Trump's desire to divorce her husband are not new. In her 2018 book, Donald Trump's former assistant, Omarosa Manigault-Newman (who became known for working on the program The Apprentice, created by Trump), had already said that Melania was waiting to get a divorce as soon as possible. .
