Melania Knauss Profile
| Full Name: | Melania Knauss - Contact Melania Knauss |
| Date of Birth: | May 6, 1974 |
| Place of Birth: | Maribor, Yugoslavia |
| Relationships: | Donald Trump (American business executive; born on June 14, 1946; met in 1999; engaged in April 2004; married on January 22, 2005) |
| Father: | Austrian |
| Mother: | Slovenian |
| Son(s): | Barron William Trump (born on March 20, 2006 in New York; weighed in at 8 1/2 pounds and was 21 inches long; father: Donald Trump Step Son: Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump |
| Daughter(s): | Step Daughter: Tiffa |
| Claim to Fame: | Became a celebrity judge for the Miss USA (2003) |
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Talking makeup: daily cosmetics and makeup blog. - Found Feb. 26, 2010 About Melania Trump Born in Slovenia, Melania Knauss began her modeling career at the age of sixteen.
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PalmBeachDailyNews - Found Dec. 26, 2009 In January 2005, Trump's marriage to Slovenian beauty Melania Knauss brought Billy Joel, Katie Couric and other celebs to Palm Beach and lured...
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Melania Knauss-Trump (born Melanija Knavs, anglicized to Melania Knauss; April 26, 1970) is a Slovenian model and an American socialite. She is married to American real estate magnate Donald Trump. They were wed on January 22, 2005.
Biography
Knauss was born as the daughter of Slovene parents in Sevnica, Slovenia (then part of Yugoslavia) in 1970. Her notoriety was raised a few notches after appearing on the Howard Stern show with Trump. This led to a layout in British GQ magazine, including the cover shot in January 2000.
As Knauss' relationship with Trump grew she continued to model, but also became involved with the social set of New York. Their relationship received increasing publicity after the launch of Trump's successful business-oriented reality television show, The Apprentice.
Trump and Knauss became engaged in 2004, and married on 22 January 2005 at Bethesdaclarification needed by the Sea Episcopal Church in Palm Beach, Florida, followed by a reception at Trump's Mar-A-Lago estate. Their wedding ceremony was widely covered by the media, with the fact that Knauss wore a $200,000 dress made by the house of Christian Dior frequently noted. The cake at the reception was a 50-pound orange Grand Marnier cake with a Grand Marnier buttercream filling, covered with 3,000 roses, constructed by the chef at Mar-A-Lago.
Recently, Knauss has appeared in a comic TV advertisement for Aflac insurance, in which she and the Aflac mascot, a duck, voiced by comedian Gilbert Gottfried, exchange personalities via a Frankenstein-like mad experiment. She has appeared as a guest host on The View.
On 27 September 2005, the Trumps announced that Melania was pregnant with Donald Trump's fifth child.1 On 20 March 2006 Knauss-Trump gave birth to a boy, whom the couple named Barron William Trump. Donald Trump made the announcement via phone on the Imus in the Morning show about 20 minutes after birth, stating that "everyone's perfect."
Trump's fifth child, Barron William Trump was also featured on The Apprentice's seventh season.
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Trump family and businesses |
| Family |
| 1st Generation: Fred Trump • Mary MacLeod Trump |
| 2nd Generation: Donald Trump • Maryanne Trump Barry • Robert Trump • Fred Trump, Jr. • Elizabeth Trump Grau |
| 3rd Generation: David Desmond | (Ivana Trump) - Donald Trump, Jr. • Ivanka Trump • Eric Trump | (Marla Maples) - Tiffany Trump | (Melania Knauss) - Barron William Trump |
| Media |
| The Apprentice (Seasons: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, MS) • Trumped! • Trump Magazine • Books |
| Notable Properties |
| Trump International Hotel and Tower (Chicago, Dubai, Fort Lauderdale, Honolulu, Las Vegas, New Orleans, New York, Panama City, Phoenix, SoHo, Toronto)
Trump Tower (New York City, Tampa, Philadelphia, White Plains, Denver, Istanbul, Atlanta, Charlotte)
Trump Tower Variations (Trump World Tower, Trump Elite Tower, Trump Towers by the Sea)
Trump Plaza (Palm Beach, New York City, New Rochelle, Trump Plaza Tower)
Other Properties: Mar-A-Lago, Trump Grande, The Trump Building at 40 Wall Street, Trump Palace, Trump Parc, Trump Park Avenue, Grand Hyatt New York, Daewoo Trump World, Riverside South/Trump Place, Trump at Cap Cana
Trump Golf: The Estates at Trump National, Trump International Golf Links
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| Various Enterprises |
| Miss Universe • Trump Ice • Trump Model Management • Trump Mortgage • Trump Shuttle • Trump University • Miscellaneous |
| Annual Revenue:▼ $10.7 billion USD (FY 2007) | Employees: 22,450 | Website: The Trump Organization |