Melania Trump Slams Tell-All Book About Her: 'It's Full Of Mistruths And Paranoia'

Melania Trump is having none of Stephanie Winston Wolkoff's claims about her and the Trump family, slamming all revelations in Wolkoff's book as pure lies.

Stephanie Grisham, the first lady's chief of staff, released a statement slamming "Melania & Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with the First Lady," a tell-all book written by Mrs. Trump’s former adviser and friend, Wolkoff. In a statement to People, Trump's spokeswoman called the author "dishonest" after reports said Wolkoff secretly recorded her conversations with the first lady.

"The book is not only full of mistruths and paranoia, it is based on some imagined need for revenge," Grisham told the publication. "Wolkoff builds herself up while belittling and blaming everyone she worked with, yet she still managed to be the victim. Sadly, this is a deeply insecure woman whose need to be relevant defies logic."

In "Melania & Me" which was published Tuesday, Wolkoff painted the Trump clan as callous. She also claimed to have witnessed "deceit" and "deception" throughout her friendship with the first lady.

On Monday, the author said she was working with three different investigators to probe potential financial crimes committed during President Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2017, as reported by BBC.

Wolkoff was responsible for organizing Trump’s inauguration in 2017. She said the chaos in the inaugural committee might have been the reason why millions of the funds meant for the celebration went unaccounted for. Her book included an anecdote in which she said donations given to the committee surpassed the $107 million that was reported on federal tax forms, NBC reported.

Emails from the author and deputy Trump campaign chair Rick Gates showed they had repeatedly warned the inaugural committee that Trump’s D.C. hotel was overcharging. The committee spent over $1 million at the hotel within a few days. The president’s three older children were also accused of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on a private party.

Winston Wolkoff’s friendship with Melania Trump ended after she was terminated from her advisory role in 2018 in a move, Wolkoff says, was a scapegoating for the unaccounted inauguration cost.

Wolkoff kept records of thousands of electronic documents when she was employed as the Trump family’s adviser and event organizer. She would later provide the documents to Washington, D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine, who filed a suit against the committee, Trump Hotels and the Trump Organization for misuse of non-profit funds.