Did Melania Just Score $10m from a Documentary Nobody Watched? (Seriously!)
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Well, well, well, what do we have here? A certain former First Lady is allegedly cashing in big from a documentary that was less blockbuster and more bore-fest—yes, I’m looking at you, Melania Trump. According to some very spicy sources, she just snagged a jaw-dropping $10.71 million from her Amazon-backed snooze-fest, titled simply Melania—which, spoiler alert, barely clawed its way to $16 million at the global box office. A true cinematic triumph, isn't it?
The financial disclosure from her husband's annual report is spilling the tea like a clumsy barista. Just imagine this: Melania's payday accounts for over half of the entire ticket sales. Talk about robbing Peter to pay Paul—if Peter were a moviegoer with a penchant for bad decisions.
But wait, there’s more! It seems our favorite chaos agent didn’t stop there. She also reportedly raked in roughly $521,000 from her memoir and over $6 million from NFTs—because who doesn’t love owning a bit of digital garbage?
And the documentary didn’t just flop quietly into the night; oh, no! It turned out to have more drama than an entire season of Real Housewives. From vandalized posters to a premiere at the Kennedy Center that was so star-studded it looked like a ghost town, critics had their knives sharpened and ready. Congress even decided to stick their noses in, questioning if Amazon’s $75 million investment was a smart business move or just a poorly disguised attempt to butter up the Trumps.
But the alleged chaos didn’t end there! POTUS himself seems to be trying to distance himself from Melania's cinematic embarrassment, claiming, 'That was done with my wife.' Meanwhile, Jeff Bezos is out here denying any “pay-to-play” antics as if he’s the moral compass of our time. But let’s keep it real—$10.71 million is quite the nice work if you can pull it off with zero effort.
So there you have it, darlings! While Melania is laughing all the way to the bank, the rest of us are left scratching our heads, wondering how we allowed this train wreck to happen.
—Dahlia