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Melania Trump (born  April 26, 1970 in Novo Mesto , SR Slovenia , SFR Yugoslavia , as Melanija Knavs [ mɛˈlaːnija ˈknaːu̯s ]) is a Slovenian - American former model and as the wife of Donald Trump since 2017 the First Lady of the USA. As a child she already appeared as a catwalk model for various textile companies in Yugoslavia and presented their products in a magazine. After little success as a model in various European countries in the early 1990s, she went to New York in 1995 , where she had her first major success in 1998 as the main model of the cigarette brand Camel . In the same year, she entered into a relationship with Donald Trump, with whom she then appeared on talk shows and on his reality TV show The Apprentice . She was also in great demand as a model and appeared on the covers of all major fashion magazines. In 2005 she became Trump's third wife and in 2006 she was naturalized in the United States. She is the first first lady who was not born American and for whom English is a foreign language.

ancestors

Melania Trump's great-grandparents in the paternal line , Anton Knavs (1874–1956) and Alojzija Bevk (* 1877), lived in the small settlement Jelovo (now part of the municipality of Radeče ) in the Austrian crown land of Carniola . After the end of the First World War in 1918, Carniola became part of the newly established Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes , later the Kingdom of Yugoslavia . Melania's grandfather Jožef Knavs (1904–1989) became a Yugoslav citizen. In the early 1930s, Jožef and his wife Antonija (died 1973) moved from Jelovo to the nearby village of Jagnjenica, where they took over the inn. Soon afterwards, Jožef found a job as a worker in a paper mill in Radeče. Their first son Joško (* 1932) died in an accident in 1940. In 1941 Germany invaded Yugoslavia . Radeče came to the Lower Styria CdZ area . The Knavs' were spared the subsequent forced resettlement of many Slovenes (around 80% in Radeče and the surrounding area) because Jožef worked in the paper mill, which was considered strategically important. During the occupation, the Slovenian first and last names were Germanized , and newborns were only allowed to have German names. Therefore, the second son, Melania's father, was registered as Waldemar Knaus when he was born in 1941. He only officially received the first name Viktor intended by his parents after the occupation.

The family of three moved to Radeče, where the father worked, and lived there in a two-room apartment. In 1944 the third and last son Hermann (later Herman) was born. In the 1950s, Jožef built a house in the nearby settlement of Njivice, which the family could move into in 1957. After graduating from elementary school in 1956, Viktor worked in the paper mill, in which his father had now acquired a management position, and trained there as a car mechanic . From 1964 to 1969 he worked as a chauffeur, then as a car salesman. When private individuals were also allowed to open businesses in the late phase of Yugoslav socialism , he founded the Knaus-Haus company in Ljubljana in 1991 , which mainly dealt with mopeds and two-wheeler spare parts.

Melania Trump's ancestors on the mother's side also come from the same area, the Lower Carniola . Her grandparents Anton and Amalija Ulčnik lived in the village of Raka southeast of Radeče; Anton was a shoemaker and his wife was a seamstress . During the German occupation in 1941, almost all of the residents of Raka were deported to labor camps to make room for settlers of German origin. The Ulčniks only narrowly escaped this fate by leaving Raka three days before the arrival of the Germans and moving to Judendorf-Straßengel near Graz . Melania Trump's mother Amalija was born there in 1945, the sixth of eight children. After the end of the war, the Ulčniks returned to Raka, where Anton also ran agriculture in addition to the shoemaker's trade. In 1947, by accidentally crossing a red Egyptian onion with a Slovenian onion variety, he obtained the red raka onion, which soon became very popular . Because of the great demand, he leased land from neighboring abandoned farms and was soon the largest producer of his new onion variety.

Amalija, the mother of Melania Trump, attended the vocational school in Celje after elementary school in Raka , where she was trained as a seamstress. She then followed her older sister Ida to Sevnica and worked there from 1964 to 1997 in the Jutranjka clothing factory . As a designer of patterns , she had a position between the ordinary dressmakers and the designers .

Viktor Knavs and Amalija Ulčnik married in 1967 in Ljubljana and were then married in church in Amalija's hometown of Raka. The former was unusual at the time, and the church wedding was a risky move for Knavs as a member of the Communist Party . The following year he took over the position of chauffeur for the director of Jutranjka , which he lost again after a year due to poor work ethic.

Childhood and youth

Sevnica (2008)

Melanija Knavs grew up in Sevnica , a small town in the southeast of the Yugoslav republic of Slovenia . She has an older sister, Ines (* 1968), and an older half-brother (* 1965) from an earlier relationship with her father, whose existence only became public in 2016. The two sisters were born in a clinic in Novo mesto and were later baptized in Raka, their mother's hometown. These baptisms, like the previous church wedding of the parents, exceeded the strict prohibition for members of the Communist Party from participating in religious ceremonies. However, this was - in secret - quite common.

The family initially lived in a small Jutranjka factory apartment with two rooms and was assigned a four-room apartment three years after Melanija's birth. The sisters did not go to the state kindergarten as usual, but were looked after by a private nanny. The Mercedes in the garage was also unusual . Viktor Knavs had already bought an old Mercedes in 1959, immediately after obtaining his driving license and at a time when there were very few private cars in Slovenia and has always remained loyal to this brand. The family later became one of the first to own a color television.

Since the Jutranjka company mainly produced children's clothing and their mother was also responsible for selecting and looking after the models, the pretty daughters were used as models from an early age. Melanija said she had her first appearance on the catwalk in 1975, at the age of five, at a fashion show in Ljubljana . The earliest known photos in this role are from January 1977. In the same year, photos of her as a Jutranjka model were published for the first time in the magazine Maneken (" Mannequin "), and also in the three following years when she worked for other companies in Zagreb , Bled and Novo mesto.

Melanija Knavs attended elementary school in Sevnica for eight years and then the secondary school for design and photography in Ljubljana. Even in elementary school she was noticed because she was always dressed differently from her classmates - in the words of her English teacher at the time, "extravagant", which was by no means meant to be appreciative. She soon learned these skills herself from her mother, who had always designed and sewn the clothes for her daughters herself, and designing and changing clothes became one of her favorite pastimes.

After graduating from school in 1989, Melanija Knavs began studying architecture at the University of Ljubljana , which she dropped out in the first year after failing two exams. The drop-out rate at her faculty, which made very high demands on the students, was 50% at the time. Until then, she had always followed her older sister, with whom she was closely connected. Ines was the better student, and she was also considered the prettier, more attractive. Melanija followed her sister to secondary school in Ljubljana, and it was Ines who began studying at the same faculty before her. The sisters lived in Ljubljana in a small apartment that their father, who worked for the local car dealership Slovenija Avto , first rented and then bought. They rarely returned to Sevnica, where their mother and their uncle Herman lived with his family, but their mother often came to Ljubljana on weekends.

As a model in Europe

At the age of 16, in February 1987, Melanija Knavs had her first photo shoot with the respected Slovenian fashion photographer Stane Jerko , who had approached her on the street. The shy student, as Jerko said later, had perfect dimensions in his eyes and was attractive, but appeared to him more like a “bookworm” than a budding model. Some photos from this shoot were first published in the UK Daily Mail in 2015 .

In 1989 photos of Melanija Knavs appeared again in the last edition of Maneken , in which she presented current creations from various textile companies, and in the same year she took part in a competition of the Cinecittà film studios in Rome , in which the winner had the prospect of appearing in films were asked. Although she won this competition, it doesn't seem to have earned her such engagement. Her only TV appearance during this time was a commercial for a shampoo.

In 1992, shortly after Slovenia's independence (1991) and the associated opening to the West, she took part in a competition organized by the Slovenian magazine Jana , the final of which was televised in Portorož on the Adriatic ( Look of the Year ). Model contracts in European cities were promised to the top three winners; she shared second place with another applicant from Ljubljana. She then received an invitation to shoot in Milan ; However, a few months later she was back in Slovenia, and later she said that the pay had been very poor. In this context it also appeared for the first time on the cover of a magazine ( Jana , June 1992).

In the spring of 1993 Melanija Knavs introduced herself to the influential agent Wolfgang Schwarz in Vienna, to whom the winner of the Jana competition was under contract. He did not consider Melanija suitable, but arranged a number of engagements for her, including one at Lauda Air . He later said that she had not shown the necessary commitment, had no energy, and therefore there was little interest in her. In addition, her English was "terrible". In the same year, however, she also appeared at two fashion shows in Milan for renowned designers such as Gucci . Soon after, she adopted the Germanized spelling of her maiden name (with the same pronunciation), Melania Knauss , and worked as a catwalk model in Milan, Paris and Madrid , and at least once in Düsseldorf .

In the United States

In 1995, the Milan-born model agent Paolo Zampolli brought her to New York , where she lived in Manhattan and worked mainly for Zampolli's agency. During this time, she mainly worked in the advertising industry and is said to have earned up to $ 1,500 a day. Her first big appearance was in 1998 when she became the lead model for the Camel cigarette brand . However, she remained anonymous throughout; her name was never mentioned.

In September 1998, at a party held by her agent Zampolli, who also had business dealings with the Trump Organization , she got to know the 24-year-old billionaire Donald Trump, whom she had only met briefly, better. She then took a long break and had her breasts enlarged and other cosmetic surgeries performed , including on her face. As Trump said later, large breasts are very important to him. At that time he was still married to his second wife, the actress Marla Maples , but lived separately from her; in 1999 the divorce took place. The first photo with Melania Knauss as a couple appeared in the German magazine Bunte .

Only now did she gain the fame and success she had long strived for. She appeared on the front pages of all the major fashion magazines, Donald Trump accompanied with talk shows and also appeared in several episodes of his TV - reality show The Apprentice on. The greatest sensation was caused by a photo series in the British edition of GQ men's magazine in January 2000, which was taken in Trump's private plane, a Boeing 727 , and in which she was also seen naked.

In July 2002 Donald Trump and Melania Knauss visited Slovenia together with the Boeing for the only time so far. Trump stayed only a few hours to celebrate their 35th wedding anniversary with Melania's parents in a posh restaurant on Lake Bled , and it was very important that his presence was kept secret.

On January 22, 2005, Donald Trump and Melania Knauss were married at the Episcopal Church of Bethesda-by-the-Sea in Palm Beach , Florida . The wedding was spectacularly staged, and the bride played a large part in the preparations. The many prominent guests included Henry Kissinger , Elton John , Liza Minnelli , Prince Charles , Oprah Winfrey , Luciano Pavarotti , Muhammad Ali , Arnold Schwarzenegger, as well as Bill and Hillary Clinton . Afterwards, there was a celebration at Trump's Mar-a-Lago estate there , and all guests were invited to spend three more days on the estate with its golf course. The only guests from Slovenia were Melania's parents and her sister Ines. The parents had brought a candle from Melania's baptism, which was re-lit.

The wedding dress was one of the most expensive in history, priced at $ 125,000. It was made by Christian Dior from the finest white silk, had a four-meter-long train and a six-meter long veil and was set with 1,500 precious stones. Far more expensive was the wedding ring the groom got from Graff Diamonds at half the price of $ 1.5 million.

Melania Trump at a 2011 QVC event

On March 20, 2006, their son Barron was born. Donald Trump already had three children ( Don , Ivanka and Eric ) from his first marriage and Tiffany, who was then still a minor, from his second marriage. During her pregnancy, Melania Trump donated $ 25,000 to the Sevnica health center in her hometown, with which u. a. Ultrasound equipment for prenatal diagnostics and a four-wheel drive vehicle for the midwife were purchased - her only known activity in Slovenia since emigrating. In 2006 she became an American citizen .

In 2010, Melania Trump presented a collection of jewelry and wristwatches bearing her name for the teleshopping channel QVC , just like her stepdaughter Ivanka in 2007. As a studied designer, she claimed to have designed everything herself and without help, although the reporting journalist noted obvious similarities to the (much more expensive) alleged creations by Ivanka Trump.

In 2012 she tried to establish a series of skin care products as a further product line: Melania Caviar Complexe C6 . She applied this project with great effort and claimed to have operated her own research laboratory for years. However, the products never came on the market, and skin care products with caviar were not a new idea either, but were available from Aldi in the USA .

Participation in the election campaign

After Donald Trump entered the fight for the Republicans' candidacy for the 2016 presidential election in June 2015 , Melania stayed in the background for a long time, but accompanied her husband to important appointments and gave some interviews. When asked about her husband's presidential candidacy in a November 2015 interview, she said, "I encourage him because I know what he's going to do and what he can do for America." She also said she was more likely to campaign hold back so they can spend more time with their son.

In March 2016, a photo from the shooting in Trump's Boeing in 2000, on which the then Melania Knauss was lying naked on a polar bear skin, came into play in the Utah area code . Followers of competitor Ted Cruz spread it on Twitter with the comment: “Meet Melania Trump. Your next first lady. Or, you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday. "(" Meet Melania Trump, your next first lady. Or support Ted Cruz on Tuesday. ") They apparently wanted to mobilize conservative Mormon voters. Donald Trump then tweeted two unfavorable photos of Heidi Cruz and threatened further "disclosures". He then decided the area code clearly for himself.

Video comparison of the speeches of Melania Trump in 2016 and Michelle Obama's speech in 2008

Melania Trump's only major appearance at the nomination convention on July 18, 2016 sparked controversy because some passages of her speech were almost identical to passages of Michelle Obama's speech at the 2008 Democratic convention , at which her husband Barack Obama was nominated as a presidential candidate . Donald Trump's campaign manager Paul Manafort dismissed the plagiarism allegations as absurd, claiming it was a typical act by Hillary Clinton , the prospective Democratic candidate. Melania Trump simply used common words. She had previously stated that she wrote her speech herself and with "little help" and did not comment on the allegations. Two days after the speech, a member of the campaign team took responsibility and apologized. After her presentation, other speechwriters wrote the text, but Melania asked her to revise it and read Obama's speech to her "as an inspiration". You, the employee, accidentally forgot parts of the Obama speech in the final version.

At the end of July 2016, the shutdown of the website www.melaniatrump.com made headlines. It had been there since 2006 that she had graduated from a Slovenian university in the subjects of design and architecture. The shutdown of her website has now been interpreted as a reaction to a note in an article in the New Yorker in May 2016 that she had dropped out of her studies in her first year.

In November 2016, the Associated Press news agency reported that Melania Trump took part in ten photo shoots after immigrating in September and October 1995 and earned over $ 20,000 without first obtaining an H-1B work visa. This was only issued to her seven weeks later. A lawyer hired by her contradicted this and claimed that she had only entered the country in August 1996. He did not respond to AP inquiries about this.

First lady

Donald and Melania Trump at Trump Inauguration Celebration, January 2017

Melania Trump has been the 47th First Lady of the United States since January 20, 2017 , the second First Lady to be born outside the United States after Louisa Adams , wife of the sixth President John Quincy Adams . However, because Louisa Adams had an American father and a British mother, Melania Trump is the first first lady who was not American by birth and to whom English is a foreign language.

In an interview with Fox News in November 2016, she announced that she would be staying in New York with her son Barron until the end of the school year. The traditional role of the first lady was largely taken over by her stepdaughter Ivanka ("First Daughter"). However, on the President's first trip abroad in May 2017, his wife was at his side. On June 11, 2017, Melania and Barron Trump moved into the White House , the official residence of the President.

Arrival of Donald and Melania Trump in Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , on May 20, 2017.

In February 2017, Melania Trump filed a defamation lawsuit against Mail Media , the owner of British tabloid Daily Mail and its New York-based online subsidiary MailOnline.com . Both had already mentioned in August 2016 that a Slovenian magazine had claimed that Zampolli's agency in New York also offered an escort service at the time when the then Melania Knauss was under contract there . Shortly thereafter, however, the Daily Mail distanced itself from it and apologized. As first lady, Melania Trump is now suing Mail Media on the grounds that the rumor has damaged her now “unique, once-in-a-lifetime ” prospects as a businesswoman in many product categories, and the amount in dispute is $ 150 million. This was critically commented in the press: Although the First Lady is not really forbidden to make a profit from her position, as she does not officially hold any public office and is not in the service of the state, it is the first in US history Time that a first lady strives to do this, and this is questionable from an ethical point of view. Shortly thereafter, Trump's lawyer submitted a modified version of the application, from which the passage about lost financial prospects was deleted and instead emotional distress was asserted - with the value in dispute remaining the same. In April 2017, a settlement agreed on the payment of damages of almost $ 3 million. Melania Trump is also the first first lady to ever file a libel suit.

A wooden statue by the American artist Brad Downey erected in her honor near Sevnica in 2019 was willfully set on fire by strangers on July 4, 2020 and removed because of the damage it caused.

Controversy over the half-brother

The existence of the illegitimate half-brother was made public in 2016 by the journalist Julia Ioffe . Viktor Knavs had long denied paternity and defended it before the highest court of appeal in Slovenia, where he finally lost. Melania Trump also initially denied the existence of the half-brother at Ioffe's request in 2016 and only admitted after submitting legal documents that she had known about it for a long time.

After the Jewish journalist had received anti-Semitic messages of hatred and even death threats because of her report , Melania Trump said in an interview that Ioffe had gone too far and “provoked” these reactions.

literature

Web links

Commons : Melania Trump  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Trump, Melania
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knavs, Melanija (maiden name); Knauss, Melania
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slovenian-American model, First Lady of the United States
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Novo mesto , Yugoslavia