In 1998, Melania was introduced to Trump during a New York Fashion Week party at the Kit Kat club hosted by Paolo Zampolli, who was then representing Melania through his company ID Model Management. In Europe, pictures like this are very fashionable and common.”

This was a picture taken for a European magazine prior to my knowing Melania. When asked about the photos, Trump told The Post: “Melania was one of the most successful models and she did many photo shoots, including for covers and major magazines. In Gotham she was booked for mostly commercial work and was later featured in an ad for Camel cigarettes, the source said. “I think it is important to show the beauty and the freedom of the woman, and I am very proud of these pictures because they celebrate Melania’s beauty,” he said.Īt the time of the shoot, Melania had just recently arrived in New York City from modeling stints in Paris and Milan, Italy. “But Melania seemed very comfortable with the whole thing, and she was very professional.”įor de Basseville, the inspiration for the pictures was the Renaissance and a celebration of the female body. a racier shoot than I expected,” said a fashion-industry insider who was present for one of the photo sessions. “I was quite surprised when I saw the pictures because it was. Melania’s sexy photo spread appeared in the January 1996 issue of Max, a French men’s magazine that went out of business in 2006. “Melania was super-great and a fantastic personality and she was very kind with me,” de Basseville told The Post, adding the former model never once felt uncomfortable posing for the nude pictures. The bombshell photos show Melania wearing nothing but high heels and pouting for the camera, in a series of images shot from the front, the back and the side. The images, some rarely seen and others never published, were obtained exclusively by The Post. (Photographer Alé de Basseville later told The Post that he misspoke, and the photo session actually took place in 1996 in Manhattan, and appeared in a 1997 issue of the magazine.) did the steamy photo session in Manhattan in 1995, according to Alé de Basseville, the French photographer who shot the sexy snaps. The leggy, Slovenian-born model - then 25 years old and known by her professional moniker Melania K. Trump, Melania Knauss posed nude in a photo spread for a now-defunct French men’s magazine, The Post has learned. Alé de Bassevilleĭonald Trump thinks his wife will be a model first lady - and here’s the proof.ĭecades before she was sporting designer dresses on the stage of the Republican National Convention as Mrs.

Melania Trump in the January 1997 issue of Max Magazine.

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