Everything to Know About Michael Wolff: The Controversial Author Who Sued Melania Trump... and Exchanged Emails With Pedo Epstein and the Prez

Michael Wolff is known for his blistering takes on President Trump, having released four books on the controversial politician, but he has also become a central figure in emails between Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

RadarOnline.com can reveal all you need to know about the vocal journalist.

Wolff was born to Lewis A. Wolff and Marguerite Wolff in Paterson, N.J., on August 27, 1953.

According to Montclair Local, Wolff graduated from Montclair Academy in 1971, where he served as the president of the student council. He was also the secretary of the Red and Black Society, the editor of Spectrum, and a member of the Political Club and the Leones Debating Society in high school.

Wolff and his first wife, lawyer Alison Anthoine, filed for divorce in 2009. He then began dating former Vanity Fair intern Victoria Floethe and later married the blonde journalist.

Wolff is a father of five: three with Alison and two with Victoria.

After Wolff worked as a copy boy for The New York Times, he published his first article, a profile of Angela Atwood, in TIME in 1974. His name also began appearing in New Times, Vanity Fair, New York Magazine, British GQ, The Hollywood Reporter, Adweek, The Industry Standard, USA Today, and The Guardian in the years thereafter.

He won National Magazine Awards in 2002 and 2004 for his columns.

In 1979, he published his first book, White Kids, which was a collection of essays. Then, in 1998, Simon & Schuster released his first-ever best-seller, Burn Rate.

Wolff's other books include The Man Who Owns the News, a seminal biography of Rupert Murdoch.

Together with Patrick Spain, Wolff co-founded the news aggregation website, Newser, in 2007. The news curator aims to "make the news faster and easier to consume," according to its About page.

As an author, Wolff has written four books about Trump and his presidency: Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Siege: Trump Under Fire, Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency, and All or Nothing: How Trump Recaptured America.

Reflecting on his book Fire and Fury, Wolff said he "became an outlet for Epstein to express his incredulity about someone whose sins he knew so well, and then this person actually being elected president. Epstein was utterly preoccupied with Trump and [he] think[s], frankly, afraid of him."

Wolff launched a legal battle after Melania Trump filed a $1billion suit over "false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading, and inflammatory statements" made about her in a podcast and a Daily Beast article.

In the lawsuit, the journalist claimed the First Lady threatened to sue him if he did not retract his statements. He then accused Melania and Donald of "making a practice of threatening those who speak against them with costly SLAPP actions to silence their speech, to intimidate their critics generally, and to extract unjustified payments and North Korean-style confessions and apologies."

The 15-page filing added, "By her Threat Letter and this responsive Declaratory Action and related Anti-SLAPP Declaratory Action, Mrs. Trump has given Wolff subpoena power which he intends to exercise fully and expeditiously."

Meanwhile, Nicholas Clemens, a spokesperson for Melania, stated, "First Lady Melania Trump is proud to continue standing up to those who spread malicious and defamatory falsehoods as they desperately try to get undeserved attention and money from their unlawful conduct."

On November 12, House Democrats released Epstein's emails that referenced Trump.

Two of the three emails released were correspondences between the late convicted s-- trafficker and Wolff, who previously claimed he "probably" has "100 hours of Epstein talking about the inner workings of the Trump White House and about his long-standing, deep relationship with Donald Trump."

In one unearthed exchange dated December 2015, Wolff wrote to Epstein, "I hear CNN planning to ask Trump tonight about his relationship with you--either on air or in scrum afterwards."

"If we were to craft an answer for him, what do you think it should be?" Epstein replied, according to the released screenshots.

"I think you should let him hang himself," Wolff responded. "If he says he hasn't been on the plane or to the house, then that gives you a valuable PR and political currency. You can hang him in a way that potentially generates a positive benefit for you, or, if it really looks like he could win, you could save him, generating a debt. Of course, it is possible that, when asked, he'll say Jeffrey is a great guy and has gotten a raw deal and is a victim of political correctness, which is to be outlawed in a Trump regime."

Wolff and Epstein discussed Trump again in January 2019, during the latter's first term as president.

"Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever," Epstein wrote, "Of course, he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine [Maxwell] to stop."

In a phone interview with ABC News after the emails were publicized, the author admitted he could not remember "the specific emails or the context" but reiterated he was "in an in-depth conversation with Epstein at that time about his relationship with Donald Trump."

Wolff added: "I was trying at that time to get Epstein to talk about his relationship with Trump, and actually, he proved to be an enormously valuable source to me. Part of the context of this is that I was pushing Epstein at that point to go public with what he knew about Trump."

While Epstein knew Trump would become president, he was reportedly "appalled" by the idea, per Wolff.

"I mean, this is, this is with some enormous irony, that [Epstein] would say Trump is a man who has no scruples, right?" he continued. "But these two guys were, I mean, there was an enmity between them because of this real estate deal that happened in 2004. But they had spent all of this time together, you know, well, more than a decade together."

As for the 2019 email, Wolff noted Epstein had always maintained he was never a member of Mar-a-Lago and that Donald "never kicked him out."

"The basis of their falling out was a real estate deal," he exposed.

Wolff dropped another bombshell in a Substack post on November 13, in which he claimed Epstein "believed" the POTUS was the one who tipped off police about the late pedophile's trafficking ring.

"Epstein believed that it was Trump, long aware of Epstein's sexual tastes, and a sometimes participant in them, who, as part of their exploding feud, alerted the police," Wolff alleged.

Epstein was ultimately arrested upon arrival at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey on a private jet. He died in August 2019 while awaiting trial.

The Substack post also provided in-depth details about Epstein and Trump's falling-out.

"[Jeffrey] believed he was the top bidder at $36million on a piece of real estate in Palm Beach" and "took his friend Trump to see the property." However, The Apprentice star reportedly "went around his friend Epstein's back and bid $41 million for the house."

"Epstein, with enough knowledge of Trump's finances to know he didn't have such money, concluded he was acting for someone else, likely part of a money laundering deal, and threatened to expose him," Wolff maintained. "At that point, the Palm Beach police began to investigate the circumstances of the young girls who were constantly coming and going at Epstein's house."