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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 moved to New York in the mid‑1990s to advance a European modeling career she began in Slovenia and then in Paris; multiple profiles say she relocated to New York in 1996 and worked there...
Melania Trump moved from Slovenia to model in Europe (including Paris) and then to New York in the mid‑ to late‑1990s, where she worked on commercial campaigns (for example a 1999 Concord watch ad) an...
Tabloids and mainstream outlets both spent years spotlighting Melania Trump’s early modeling work — emphasizing nude and glamour shoots, European magazine covers, and questions about her U.S. immigrat...
Melania Trump is widely associated with high‑profile fashion events—front‑row seats at New York Fashion Week, Met Gala invitations and celebrity sightings at major runway presentations—but the availab...
Reporting and archival documents show three recurring controversies tied to Melania Trump’s 1990s modeling career: publication of nude or “raunchy” photo shoots that resurfaced later (reported by outl...
There is no credible reporting that Melania Trump ever worked as a porn actress; her documented pre‑First Lady career was in fashion modeling, including lingerie and some tasteful nude or “implied nud...
Melania Knauss (later Melania Trump) appeared in several international fashion and men's magazines in the 1990s, with contemporary and retrospective accounts naming Max (France), British GQ and other ...
Melania Trump has publicly addressed the issue of non-consensual intimate images, championing legislation and calling the consequences “heartbreaking” while also defending her past nude modeling as a ...
Media outlets have relied chiefly on archival publication records, photographer statements, and magazine credits to verify that the nude images of Melania Trump appeared in British GQ’s January 2000 f...
is in the process of shutting a large portion — and likely all — of its brick-and-mortar stores as part of a restructuring, with local confirmations of individual store closings and multiple industry ...
Following the first high-profile accusations of judging misconduct and backstage mistreatment at Miss Universe 2025, a mixture of threatened and actual legal actions emerged: a resigned judge announce...
Contemporaneous interviews and agency statements from the 1990s portray Melania Trump as a working fashion model who took standard commercial bookings in Europe and, later, the U.S., including editori...
A discrete set of designers have publicly been tied to Melania Trump’s most visible looks: Adam Lippes confirmed and issued a statement about her 2025 inauguration ensemble, Hervé Pierre — long descri...
French media have consistently reported Brigitte Macron’s appearances at public events—state visits, Bastille Day parades and high‑profile foreign trips—with outlets documenting outfits, schedules and...
Brigitte Macron attended at least two public funerals in 2025 that are documented in available reporting: Pope Francis’s funeral in Vatican City on April 26, 2025, where she was seated alongside Presi...
Available reporting documents multiple pieces of contemporary evidence tying Melania Trump to specific New York–area modeling interests in the 1990s: accounting ledgers and agency records showing paym...
Available reporting in the provided sources shows Walmart has removed or limited specific political merchandise at times — chiefly in 2018 when it pulled “Impeach 45” items sold by third‑party marketp...