Melania Trump\u2019s former top aide, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, is determined to not be defined by her unceremonious White House departure.<\/p>\n
\u201cMelania was one chapter of my life. It\u2019s not my story,\u201d Vogue alum Wolkoff, who penned a memoir about their friendship and the FLO-TUS rift, told Page Six.<\/p>\n
She has moved on to her next act: producing TV shows.<\/p>\n
Stephanie Winston Wolkoff attends 2026 Gurus Beauty Awards Reception on June 22, 2026 in New York City. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Wolkoff recently produced \u201cGunslingers,\u201d and her latest project is executive producing \u201cThe Trouble with Billy,\u201d a fictionalized TV show based on and starring \u201990s heartthrob William McNamara, as well as Billy Baldwin and her brother Randall Batinkoff, who brought her on to the project. McNamara lost everything at the height of his fame, primarily due to alcohol and drug abuse.<\/p>\n
\u201cI know something about rebuilding life after your worst chapter, and I know no one should be defined by a single moment,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The fashion insider was a confidant of Trump\u2019s before her husband, Donald Trump, ran for office, and she joined her in the East Wing as an adviser. But Wolkoff got the boot after it was revealed her firm received some $26 million for helping plan Donald\u2019s first inauguration. Wolkoff claimed she was a \u201cscapegoat\u201d and that she only personally received a fraction of that sum.<\/p>\n
She\u2019s been making the rounds in NYC to get the word out about the show, which streams on Red Coral Universe. She and McNamara were spotted at Eliut Rivera\u2019s salon earlier last week, where they linked up with Hilaria Baldwin.<\/p>\n
Winston Wolkoff is determined to not be defined by her unceremonious White House departure. Getty Images<\/p>\n
Melania Trump, Donald Trump, and Stephanie Winston Wolkoff in New York in May 2011. Billy Farrell\/BFA \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Last Thursday, they hosted a joint party with Noel Ashman at Aquarelle to celebrate his birthday and the premiere of their show.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to be defined by politics or betrayal. I want to spend my time creating stories that remind us to look beyond the headline, believe in second chances and never lose sight of the person behind the public image,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Melania Trump\u2019s former top aide, Stephanie Winston Wolkoff, is determined to not be defined by her unceremonious White…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":768935,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,362,1376,75,64776,273200,1971],"class_list":["post-768934","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-melania-trump","tag-stephanie-winston-wolkoff","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/768935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}