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Melania Trump’s nude photo shoots were commercial modeling assignments produced during her pre-First-Lady modeling career; the best-documented instance is a 2000 British GQ shoot shot by Antoine Vergl...
Melania Trump posed nude in at least two published photo shoots during her modeling career: a 2000 British GQ shoot (often described as a cover/profile featuring her on a sheepskin rug and aboard a cu...
Melania Knauss’s modeling work from the 1990s is most often linked to a small set of photographs—principally a nude shoot for a men’s magazine commonly described as Max (often dated to the mid‑1990s) ...
Melania Trump posed nude in a photo spread that was published in the French men’s magazine Max (January 1996 issue), from a shoot conducted in New York in the mid‑1990s, widely reported as 1995 (Max i...
Available reporting shows Melania Trump posed for nude modeling shoots in the late 1990s and early 2000s that were published by magazines such as British GQ; photographers and outlets describe those s...
Reporting shows Melania Trump posed nude in at least two different magazine shoots from the 1990s–2000s: a French men’s magazine called Max published images in 1995/1996 (often credited to photographe...
Available reporting shows Melania Trump posed for a semi-nude British GQ photo spread published in January 2000, shot by Antoine Verglas on Donald Trump’s Boeing 727; the photos were later republished...
The resurfacing and publication of ’s nude modeling photos triggered intense media coverage and polarized public reaction, with outlets and social platforms replaying material from her pre‑First Lady ...
British GQ republished a risqué January 2000 photo shoot featuring Melania Knauss on its website in March 2016 after "digging through the archives," a decision the magazine and its editor framed as a ...
Mainstream U.S. newspapers did not newly publish previously unseen nude photos of Melania Trump in the 2024–2025 reporting captured here; the images discussed in multiple outlets were long‑published m...
Multiple sources identify French photographer Antoine Verglas as the photographer who shot Melania Trump’s 2000 GQ photo session aboard Donald Trump’s private jet (e.g., ABC News and Women’s Wear Dail...
Melania Trump built a transatlantic modeling résumé before her 2005 marriage, beginning work at 16, reaching the Look of the Year finals in 1992, and working through Paris and Milan agencies before mo...
Melania Trump worked as a fashion model in Europe and the United States throughout the 1990s and early 2000s and “appeared on the covers of several magazines,” including a noted appearance in the 2000...
Melania Trump’s nude photoshoots from the late 1990s and 2000 were publicly known long before she became First Lady, and they resurfaced as a campaign issue in 2016 and again in later publicity around...
The available evidence shows Melania Trump’s nude photoshoot for British GQ in 2000 was not the subject of widespread public controversy at the time of publication; the images were part of a fashion f...
Photographs of Melania Knauss from the mid‑1990s through about 2000 appeared in several men’s and fashion magazines; published reporting identifies shoots for Max (mid‑1990s), British GQ (cover/profil...
Available reporting identifies the resurfaced image as one of Melania Trump’s swimsuit/modeling photos from around 2000 that have circulated from magazine shoots such as British GQ and other editorial...
A widely shared “gold bathing suit” photo of Melania Trump is being presented as a vintage modeling shot; contemporary coverage identifies it as an old swimsuit/throwback photo from her modeling days ...
Melania Trump explains the nude photos as part of her earlier European modeling career and describes them as , a position she restated while promoting her memoir . Multiple outlets note the photos pre...
A careful reading of the available analyses shows there is no credible evidence that any edition of Melania Trump’s memoir or book has *included* the nude photographs; the images in question originall...