Former first lady Melania Trump “quietly” renegotiated her prenuptial agreement with her husband, former President Donald Trump, ahead of the 2024 presidential election, according to sources.
“Over the last year, Melania and her team have been quietly negotiating a new ‘postnup’ agreement between herself and Donald Trump,” an unnamed insider source told Page Six.
“This is at least the third time Melania has renegotiated the terms of her martial agreement,” the source added.
According to the source, she didn’t renegotiate it because she intended to leave Trump but rather because she wanted more money for their son, Barron.
“Melania is most concerned about maintaining and increasing a substantial trust for their son, Barron,” the source said.
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Plus, the new prenuptial agreement also grants her more money and property.
“I know that she wanted it to provide her with more money, and also — from what I understand — there’s a specific amount at minimum that Barron is supposed to obtain,” a second source told Page Six.
As for the timing of the latest renegotiation, the first source attributed it to both Trump potentially serving another term and his mounting legal battles.
“This agreement was necessary because of the current legal battles. Trump remains very rich, but with mounting legal bills and judgements, [the prenup would] provide a more solid future,” they said.
“It’s not that she threatened to leave him. It’s definitely the underlying idea,” the source added.
As noted before, this isn’t the first time she’s renegotiated the prenup agreement between herself and the former president.
In the 2020 book “The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump,” The Washington Post’s Mary Jordan alleged that Melania renegotiated the prenup around the same time in 2017 when she delayed moving into the White House after the presidential inauguration.
“When the first lady didn’t move into the White House after the presidential inauguration in early 2017, the official White House line was that she did not want to disrupt her son Barron Trump’s schooling,” according to Insider.
But in the book, “Jordan wrote that Melania was actually looking to ‘amend her financial arrangement with Trump — what Melania referred to as ‘taking care of Barron,'” Insider reported at the time of the book’s release.
Though the delay to the White House reportedly cost oodles because of the required Secret Service protection, the bid for a renegotiated prenup did work.
“She ended up getting the prenup renegotiated to ensure that Barron, 14, would get a proper inheritance and dual citizenship in the US and Slovenia so he could work for the Trump Organization in Europe,” Insider notes.
Jordan herself wrote that Melania “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.”
Interestingly, Melania’s then-spokeswoman (later turned turncoat) Stephanie Grisham bashed the book at the time, claiming it was brimming “with false information and sources.”
After leaving the White House and becoming a turncoat, Grisham then published her own tell-all book in 2021. In the book, she slammed Melania as a “doomed French queen” who was “dismissive,” “defeated,” and “detached.”
Melania’s office responded by releasing a statement accusing Grisham of using “mistruth and betrayal” to try to “gain relevance and money.”
Dovetailing back to the couple’s just-renegotiated prenup, Insider notes that “[r]enegotiating a prenup isn’t solely reserved for couples experiencing marital woes” — “[r]eevaluating the legal agreement is common among those who anticipate future financial turbulence, as well.”
And as it stands, Trump currently faces four criminal indictments and a civil action.
“She [Melania] may well want additional protections for herself and her son,” Bill Beslow, the high-powered divorce attorney who represented Marla Maples when she divorced Trump in 1999, said to Insider.
Beslow added that renegotiating a prenup is important “if you think the whole roof may fall in on you.” And, he continued, Melania may be attempting to take advantage of the leverage she currently boasts.
“She may be saying ‘this is what you need to do, if you want me on your side, if you want me on the campaign trail, if you want me in the courtroom.’ And he may need her not to do certain things. What’s that worth for him, for example, for her not to write a book?” he said.
Neama Rahmani, the president of West Coast Trial Lawyers, concurred with Beslow’s analysis.
“There’s a possibility that when it’s all said and done, Trump isn’t going to be in a good financial state. She may be trying to protect herself. To the extent that you can get money from the marriage now, before his creditors get to him, that’s something you should consider,” he said.
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V. Saxena is a staff writer with a decade of experience as a professional writer, and a lifetime of experience as an avid news junkie. He holds a degree in computer technology from Purdue University. Saxena also contributes to BizPac Review.
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