First lady Melania Trump renegotiated her prenuptial agreement with President Trump before she and their son moved to the White House, according to a forthcoming book.
Melania Trump and their son spent months living in their New York City penthouse before moving into the White House with the president. The first lady said it was because she wanted to allow her son, Barron, to finish his school year.
According to the book, by author Mary Jordan, Melania Trump was also using her delayed move to the White House “as leverage for renegotiating her prenuptial agreement with President Trump,” according to the Washington Post.
In The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump, set to be released Tuesday, Jordan writes that Trump learned new details of her husband’s alleged infidelities from media coverage during the 2016 campaign.
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Jordan reports Melania Trump’s original prenup had not been overgenerous, and she had been married to the president longer than his first two wives.
She used her time in New York without her husband “to amend her financial arrangement with Trump — what Melania referred to as ‘taking care of Barron.’”
According to three people close to the first lady, she renegotiated the prenuptial agreement to her liking by mid-2018. Jordan writes that part of the agreement made sure Barron would not be shut out of the family business.
“She wanted proof in writing that when it came to financial opportunities and inheritance, Barron would be treated as more of an equal to Trump’s oldest three children,” Jordan writes.
Stephanie Grisham, a spokeswoman for Trump, called the book a work of fiction.
“Yet another book about Mrs. Trump with false information and sources. This book belongs in the fiction genre,” she said in a statement to the Washington Examiner.
