‘Melania’ Movie Earned the Trump Family Millions, Financial Disclosure Report Reveals

Despite struggling at the box office, Melania proved to be a big money maker for the Trumps.

According to a 927-page financial disclosure report released by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on Wednesday, June 30, the Amazon MGM Studios film, which followed First Lady Melania Trump in the 20 days leading up to her husband’s inauguration for his second term as president, earned both Melania, 56, and President Donald Trump $10.71million in proceeds from the film’s license agreement.

The filing, which detailed the president’s finances, also revealed the first lady’s income, with Melania earning a reported $521,000 from her 2024 memoir of the same name.

The report comes after the Brett Ratner-directed film faced both backlash and poor critical reception at the box office. Released in 1,500 theaters on January 30, the film grossed just $16.7 million worldwide, with an estimated $7 million in ticket sales during its opening weekend.

Those numbers are particularly staggering, given that the Jeff Bezos-owned studio reportedly spent a whopping $75 million on the project after purchasing the rights to release it for $40 million, and then dropped $35 million on marketing.

Still, Melania touted the film’s success online, taking to X to celebrate it as the most-watched movie on the streamer’s charts back in March.

In addition to facing critical backlash, the film, which followed the first lady through dress fittings and brief interactions with the president, 80, as they prepared for their return to the White House, also saw political blowback, with both Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep. Hank Johnson accusing the streamer of using the film to gain favor with the Trump administration.

The pair of Democrats even initiated an investigation into the film, calling it “a corrupt pay-to-play arrangement with the Trump administration” and criticizing their $40 million bid to score the project as an attempt “to secure favorable treatment … on antitrust suits, potential tariff exemptions, foreign trade deals, federal contracts, and tax cuts.”

Amazon has since denied those allegations and insisted there was “no improper” activity in their bid to land the doc on the platform. Instead, Amazon insisted it followed a “thorough and competitive bidding process,” despite reportedly paying more than three times as much as the next-closest bidder, Disney, which bid approximately $14 million to produce the film.