![]() ![]() It wasn’t the first time she’d been roped into one of the numerous investigations into how money around Donald Trump’s inauguration-which Wolkoff, as Melania Trump’s ex-close friend and adviser, had helped plan-was spent. It was early Monday morning, the day before the presidential election, and she had a sneaking idea of who it would be. “Melania and Me” will be published on September 1 by Gallery Books.Stephanie Winston Wolkoff hadn’t yet gotten dressed when a doorman in her prewar Park Avenue apartment complex buzzed up to let her know someone was waiting for her downstairs. Investigation or not,” she said, without taking offense.Īfter all, why should she tell anybody anything? Not when she had a book coming out. “I am not going to comment whether I am part of the Speaking with Avenue’s editor at the luncheon (which she attended, she said, in “Alexander McQueen, head to toe,” and two-inch heels), Wolkoff declined to address whether she had been subpoenaed by any of the agencies then investigating the Trump administration in general, or the inauguration finances specifically. In the ensuing scandal, she had been dropped by the White House - severing her longtime friendship with the First Lady. Pair attended an awards luncheon celebrating the UN Women forĪt that time, Wolkoff was under scrutiny for accepting $26 million (through her firm, much of which was disbursed to contractors) for her role in the inauguration. Town and involved with multiple philanthropic causes. Wolkoff’s mother, Barbara Winston, is a gregarious figure around She married David Wolkoff, the handsome heir to a real estateįortune, in 2000 the couple has three children. Raised in the Catskills, she dropped her birth surname - Batinkoff - after her mother, Barbara, divorced her father and married Bruce Winston, son of famed jeweler, Harry Winston. Making her the obvious choice when Melania Trump suddenly needed help planningīut the woman who would go on to become the best friend, and then betrayer, of the First Lady was not born to high society. In 2012, she left Lincoln Center to found an events consulting firm, The fact that she knew every importantĭesigner and fashion power broker from the Met Gala probably gave it a lifeline, Said a friend of Wolkoff’s, “but it wasn’t her fault. “That was a less successful period in her life, professionally,” Donald Trump in 2005.Īfter leaving Vogue in 2009, Wolkoff served as the fashion director at Lincoln Center - effectively putting her in charge of New York Fashion Week’s move to the venue from its famous tents at Bryant Park. It was during this time she formed a close friendship with the model Melania Knauss, who would become the third Mrs. That made her Anna Wintour’s right-hand-woman for the annual Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute fundraiser - also known as the Met Gala - an evening whose glamour rivals the Academy Awards.įor her effectiveness at the task, Wintour gave her the nickname “General Winston.” She also famously described her approach to selling tables at the event as, “No money, no come-y.” In just over a decade at Vogue, the athletic, 6’1”-tall brunette (who enjoys further enhancing her stature with stiletto heels) rose from being a public relations manager to the magazine’s director of special events. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, author of the First Lady-skewering tell-all, Melania and Me, is a New York society beauty who has organized some of the city’s most prestigious and exclusive events. ![]()
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