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Antoine Verglas

American photographer

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Nov 10, 2025
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What was the context of Melania Trump's nude photo shoot?

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...

Dec 8, 2025
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Which publication first ran Melania Trump's nude photos and when were they published?

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...

Nov 25, 2025
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Were the nude photos of Melania Trump published with her consent?

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...

Dec 21, 2025

Is the Melania Trump bikini photo on Epstein's plane authentic or doctored?

The image circulating with the caption that it was shot aboard Jeffrey Epstein’s plane is authentic as a photograph of Melania Trump from her modeling career, but the claim that it was taken on Epstei...

Nov 25, 2025

Were the 2000 Melania Trump GQ photos authorized for republication during her time as First Lady?

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...

Dec 8, 2025

Are there verified photographs of Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein together?

Publicly available, contemporary sources document multiple photos showing Donald Trump, Melania Trump (then Melania Knauss) and Jeffrey Epstein together at social events — notably a February 2000 Mar‑...

Nov 28, 2025

Which magazine first published Melania Trump's nude photos and what was its ownership at the time?

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...

Dec 7, 2025

Which magazines featured Melania Trump as a model pre-2005?

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...

Jan 15, 2026

How did British GQ’s 2000 photo shoot with Melania Knauss come to be republished in 2016, and who photographed it?

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 ...

Dec 6, 2025

Have any photos or documented meetings linked Melania Trump to Jeffrey Epstein?

Photographs and event photos do place Melania Trump in the same frame as Jeffrey Epstein once — a February 2000 Mar-a-Lago photo shows Melania (then Melania Knauss), Donald Trump, Epstein and Ghislain...

Nov 10, 2025

Was Melania Trump's nude photoshoot controversial when first published in 2000?

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...

Nov 15, 2025

Who photographed Melania Trump's 2000 nude photo shoot for GQ?

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...

Nov 25, 2025

What magazines featured Melania Knauss's most provocative 1990s work?

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...

Dec 19, 2025

What legal or privacy disputes have arisen over melania trump's early modeling photos?

Melania Trump’s early modeling photographs have sparked a cluster of legal and privacy disputes spanning copyright/licensing fights, defamation suits tied to insinuations about escorting, archival doc...

Dec 14, 2025

Did Melania Trump or her representatives ever comment on consent regarding the photos?

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 ...

Dec 14, 2025

What fashion campaigns, magazines, and photographers featured Melania Trump in the 1990s and 2000s?

Melania Trump worked as an international fashion model in the 1990s and 2000s and during that period appeared in magazine shoots and campaigns and worked with prominent photographers such as Antoine V...

Dec 10, 2025

Which international fashion magazines featured melania knaus in the 1990s?

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 ...

Dec 2, 2025

Are there verified photographs or flight/logbook records showing Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein together?

Publicly available reporting finds no verified photograph showing Melania Trump aboard Jeffrey Epstein’s private jet; the widely shared modeling photo was shot for GQ on Donald Trump’s Boeing 727, not...

Nov 16, 2025

How have media outlets verified the origin and authorship of the Melania Trump GQ images?

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...

Nov 13, 2025

What are notable photoshoots of Melania Trump from the 1990s?

Notable 1990s photoshoots attributed to Melania Trump center on editorial and commercial modeling in the mid-to-late 1990s, with recurring mentions of a 1995 nude spread for a French magazine, a late-...