There has been speculation over Donald Trump’s marriage with Melania following the US President’s election loss to President-Elect Joe Biden.
The First Lady has openly stood by her husband after the result last week, but a former aide has previously claimed that she is “counting every minute until he is out of office and she can divorce", reports the Mirror.
Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former assistant in the Trump administration, claimed that their marriage was over in 2018.
“If Melania were to try and pull the ultimate humiliation and leave while he’s in office, he would find a way to punish her”, she said.
This claim has been denied by the First Lady’s spokesperson.
When Melania walked down the aisle with her husband in 2005, Donald made her sign prenup like his previous two marriages.
Details of their prenup has remained private, but legal professionals are said to be fascinated by their agreement.
Peter Stambleck, from New York based legal firm Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan, told Town and Country magazine that he would have recommended a title controls prenup.
He explains: "It makes it very clear that, in the event of divorce, everything in his name will be his and everything in her name will be hers.
"Billionaires have complicated asset structures. They have shell companies, LLCs, investments in other companies, and it’s very, very complicated.
"One main purpose of a prenup is to avoid having to share in that, but also to avoid the headache that goes into producing all the documents and having accountants come in and look at all of it. Theoretically, that’s what could happen in the absence of a prenup."
He also claims that Melania would probably be allowed to keep any jewellery she has been given during the marriage.
When it comes to the couple's son Barron, Jacqueline Newman, managing partner at Berkman Bottger Newman & Rodd, believes Melania would be the primary caretaker and could get a lot of cash to look after the 14-year-old.
She told the magazine: "My guess is that she would get primary custodial rights and he would get access whenever he happens to be in town.
"In this situation, if she has $50 million, she can afford to buy something. But $50 million, while it’s definitely a lot of money, in New York City, for what she’s used to, she wouldn’t be able to replicate what she has now. He probably had a good sense of what kind of lifestyle they’d be living, so I would imagine the payout would be fairly generous.”
However, a book about the First Lady claims she used his election victory to renegotiate the conditions of her prenup.
She didn't move into the White House straight away, remaining in New York so the couple's son Barron could finish the school year.
But Washington Post reporter Mary Jordan claims another motivation was that it gave her time to work out her finaces.
In her book The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump, she wrote: “She wanted proof in writing that when it came to financial opportunities and inheritance, Barron would be treated as more of an equal to Trump’s oldest three children.”
Trump's first two wives also had prenups, but both successfully contested them.
After his first marriage to Ivana broke down, she argued her case and was awarded $10million from the businessman and a further $650,000 a year of child support.
She also got an apartment in New York and a huge Connecticut mansion.
His second wife, Marla Maples, got far less - around $2million.
