![]() ![]() ![]() Stephanie met Melania Trump through her work at Vogue, and they became friends who would regularly meet for lunch at The Mark or other upscale restaurants. Anna Wintour and André Leon Talley were at her March 2000 wedding to real estate developer David Wolkoff, which was also attended by her maternal grandparents, Ethel and Joel Carnel of Youngsville, both Holocaust survivors who emigrated to America in 1949, according to their obituaries in the Democrat. She worked at Vogue and organized the Met Gala for years. Stephanie finished her Communications degree at Loyola University in New Orleans and then took the Big Apple by storm. He has acted in over 60 films and television shows as well as working as a writer, producer, and director. Her brother Randall Batinkoff is a successful actor and director who began his career in commercials while still in elementary school. Her brother Gordon is now known as Gordon Winston. Her mother's second marriage was to Bruce Winston, the son of jeweler Harry Winston, and he adopted Stephanie at age 26. ![]() Stephanie then went to Fordham University in order to be closer to her mother. When Stephanie was in high school, her parents divorced. Her father, Barry, decided not to follow in the family business and became a photographer. Born to Barbara (née Carnel) and Barry Batinkoff, Stephanie and her brothers, Gordon and Randall, grew up in Sullivan County where the Batinkoff family had very successful chicken farms. Stephanie Winston Wolkoff (née Batinkoff) lived in Ferndale. Trump, 51, issued a statement last month that said in part, “Like everyone else, she gets paid by a radical left-leaning publisher to say bad and untrue things.Here's a fun fact: the woman who wrote the new bestseller “Melania & Me” was born and bred in Sullivan County. Wolkoff acknowledged that she penned her own Trump tome, and the “ Justice Department sued me over my book about my experiences, ‘Melania and Me.’ (The case has since been dropped.)” She also scoffed at Grisham’s assertion in the book that the former first lady speaks five languages, writing, “I can guarantee she does not.” Wolkoff also took issue with Grisham describing her as a “wealthy grifter from New York” when she was, as she described it, “in charge of planning and running the Met Ball for more than a decade, and that it was Melania and Ivanka who sought me out to help them, not the other way around.” Wolkoff wrote that Grisham “swooped in Melania Trump’s inner circle when I, a close friend and adviser to the first lady, was in the hospital recovering from back surgery, and helped lay the blame for a gross mismanagement of inauguration funds squarely on my back.” In the piece, former FLOTUS senior adviser Wolkoff described Grisham, 45, as a “female Machiavelli with a penchant for Justin Bieber, whom she quotes at the start of one of the chapters in her book.” Stephanie Grisham is a destroyer, and in her memoir she seems to show no genuine remorse for the destruction that she caused,” Wolkoff, 50, wrote in Graydon Carter’s Air Mail Thursday. “There are people who build things and people who destroy them. ![]() Melania Trump’s onetime best friend Stephanie Winston Wolkoff penned an essay that calls out the former first lady’s ex-chief of staff Stephanie Grisham over her new tell-all, “I’ll Take Your Questions Now.” Met Gala mastermind tapped to plan inauguration eventsĭennis Basso dedicates his NYFW show to Joan Rivers Melania Trump’s top adviser gets major health scare Former Melania Trump aide re-emerges after scandal ![]()
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