Blurred lines: how Michael Wolff aspired to be part of elite circles he wrote about Highlight

It is one of the mysteries of Wolff’s endurance that his uber-powerful subjects never seem to learn from past mistakes – their own or others’. Melania Trump is now repeating her husband’s attempt to silence the writer.

Last month the first lady’s lawyer wrote to Wolff threatening to sue him for more than $1bn for the “overwhelming reputational and financial harm” he had caused her. The letter objected to comments made by Wolff on the Daily Beast podcast he co-hosts, Inside Trump’s Head, in which he suggested that she was heavily involved in the White House handling of the Epstein scandal.