By CAROLINE GRAHAM FOR THE MAIL
Melania Trump was briefly spotted last week leaving celebrity hairdresser Frederic Fekkai’s salon in Manhattan, sporting an immaculate blow-dry.
This was just days after FBI agents had stormed the Trumps’ magnificent Mar- a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Florida (dubbed the ‘Winter White House during his presidency), looking for classified documents, allegedly rummaging through Melania’s underwear drawer in the process.
But, if the former First Lady, 52, felt any anger or emotion about the raid on her home, as always, she wasn’t showing it.
‘Who can blame her for wanting to keep a low public profile? She hasn’t been hiding. I’ve seen her in the spa. She and Donald are always in the restaurants at Mar-a-Lago.’
While focusing on family and the charitable causes that interest her, Melania set up a website earlier this year to raise money for children’s charities, selling digital artwork for $150 a time, including a close-up portrait of her eyes and a sepia-toned image of her face.
In May, she made a rare public appearance to Place of Hope, a foster care agency in Palm Beach.
Friends say that, for the most part, she has been living in the 3,500 sq ft private residence at Mar-a-Lago, which is also an exclusive private club offering carefully vetted members the chance to join for a one-off $250,000 fee and annual dues of $16,000.
She swims laps in the Olympic-sized pool, plays tennis three times a week on the private courts, hosts parties in the ballroom and has facials and massages at the spa.
Perhaps most importantly – in an America so riven by politics, many fear it is on the brink of civil war – Mar-a-Lago is a fortress.