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Dave Goldiner

Melania Trump reportedly caught on tape dissing Donald and Ivanka

An estranged confidant of Melania Trump plans to reveal what she had to say in a new tell-all book, one of a flood of damaging memoirs coming out during the months leading up to Election Day, journalist Yashar Ali revealed Monday.

Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, who helped run the Trump inauguration celebration, plans to dish on the first lady's reaction to the infamous "Access Hollywood" tape, in which her husband bragged of fondling women, and her relationship with the president's oldest daughter.

"Wolkoff takes you into Trump Tower and the White House to tell the funny, thrilling and heartbreaking story of her intimate friendship with one of the most famous women in the world," a preview of the book reveals.

"Melania and Me: The Rise and Fall of My Friendship with The First Lady" will be published by Simon & Schuster's Gallery Books on Sept. 1.

It was not immediately clear when or where the alleged recordings of Melania were made. In New York and some states, only one participant in a conversation needs to legally consent to being taped.

Wolkoff also vows to pull back the curtain on Melania Trump's life with President Donald Trump in the White House, including whether she is happy as first lady and her message behind her infamous "I really don't care" jacket.

Wolkoff was a friend of Melania Trump for more than a decade and produced the Met Gala, among other big-time events.

The pair had a major falling out over Wolkoff's handling of the $107 million inauguration, which has been dogged by questions and even a federal investigation.

Wolkoff says she was made a scapegoat by Melania for the decisions of the president and his aides.

The tell-all will hit bookshelves about the same time as other damaging behind-the-scenes looks at Trump in the frantic final sprint to the Nov. 3 election.

President Trump's niece last week revealed that Maryanne Trump Barry, the president's sister and a retired federal judge, was taped saying that he has "no morals" and is an inveterate liar.

Trump's longtime lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen plans to dish dirt from his key role in keeping the skeletons from Trump's decades of scandals in the closet.

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