Melania Trump’s Private Love Life Exposed: The Full Dating History Uncovered

Before she became the poised First Lady of the Unit­ed States, Mela­nia Trump lived a life wrapped in qui­et mys­tery – one that includes a few care­ful­ly guard­ed romances. But few knew who they were. Until now

Born Melani­ja Knavs in the tiny Sloven­ian town of Sevni­ca, Melania’s jour­ney to glob­al recog­ni­tion is any­thing but ordi­nary. Long before her mar­riage to Don­ald Trump in 2005, she worked tire­less­ly to build a mod­el­ingcareer that took her from the streets of Ljubl­jana to Paris, Milan, and ulti­mate­ly, New York City.

Melania meets Trump

Mela­nia and the future pres­i­dent first crossed paths in 1998 at a Fash­ion Week par­ty at the Kit Kat Club in Man­hat­tan, host­ed by Ital­ian busi­ness­man Pao­lo Zam­pol­li, who had signed her to his mod­el­ing agency, ID Mod­el Man­age­ment.

Despite Trump arriv­ing at the par­ty with a date, he was report­ed­ly cap­ti­vat­ed by Mela­nia and asked for her num­ber.

But, accord­ing to her best friend Edit Mol­nar, the mod­el was “turned off” by the real estate mogul and dat­ing him was “absolute­ly out of the ques­tion.”

“Mela­nia said, ‘He’s here with a woman. I am absolute­ly not giv­ing him my num­ber,’” Mol­nar about the con­ver­sa­tion he had with his friend, who he described as a “home­body.” “She wouldn’t even con­sid­er it. Don­ald did all the work

Not a party girl’

Zam­pol­li, who now serves as a U.S. Ambas­sador for Glob­al Part­ner­ships, added: “She nev­er dat­ed any­one in New York before Don­ald. She only went to movies by her­self and to the gym.

“This is a woman who mod­eled for Camel cig­a­rettes on a huge bill­board in Times Square but stayed home all the time,” Zam­pol­li said. “She was not a par­ty girl.”

In Jan­u­ary 2005, Mela­nia mar­ried Don­ald in a lav­ish cer­e­mo­ny at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Flori­da, and the cou­ple wel­comed their first child, Bar­ron, the fol­low­ing year in 2006.

But before Don­ald, who were the men that caught Melania’s eye

Alleged first love

One of the first men pub­licly linked to the for­mer Sports Illus­trat­ed mod­el is Peter Butoln, who claimed to be her teenage boyfriend dur­ing her school years in Slove­nia.

“It was my first love. My first real love,” Butoln said in an inter­view with Inside Edi­tion

They report­ed­ly met when Mela­nia moved to Ljubl­jana at 17 to attend design school, Butoln shared, explain­ing that when he first saw her in the city cen­ter, he was instant­ly smit­ten.

“I saw her in a crowd of girls, and she was the most beau­ti­ful girl,” he said.

Their romance end­ed when he left for mil­i­tary ser­vice, and their final con­tact came in 1987, when Mela­nia sent him a post­card that read: “I send you this post­card with nice warm regards from the sea­side.”

Last Slovenian romance

Anoth­er name tied to Melania’s past is Jure Zor­cic, who met the now First Lady in 1991. Accord­ing to Zor­cic, he was rid­ing his motor­cy­cle when he spot­ted her walk­ing and turned around to speak to her. “I had a moment and thought, ‘Wow, who is this girl? She is so beau­ti­ful,’”

“We met each oth­er like in a movie,” said Zor­cic. “I was on my motor­bike, and she has been walk­ing down a street. As I passed by her, I had a moment and thought, ‘Wow, who is this girl? She is so beau­ti­ful, I must turn back and fol­low her.’”

Years lat­er, she left Slove­nia to mod­el in Milan and Paris

“It was a bit of shock when I met her,” he told ABC. “She is very spe­cial, that’s the truth.”

In 2000, they unex­pect­ed­ly bumped into each oth­er in New York, and Mela­nia greet­ed her for­mer flame in Eng­lish.

I asked her: Did you for­get that you are Sloven­ian?” he recalled. She told him she was liv­ing between New York and Flori­da and that “she would nev­er go back to Slove­nia.”

Of her even­tu­al mar­riage to Don­ald, Zor­cic mused: “I think her mar­riage to Trump was fate. Nobody believed 20 years ago that she would live at the top of the world, on Fifth Avenue in Trump Tow­er – even her!”