Oh, so THAT'S how Melanie got the cash to buy that nice jacket! Good to know!

[Leghorn21]

NBC News found at least a dozen organizations paid to
use restricted images of the Trumps in 2017 that, thanks to
an unusual deal with a photo agency, resulted in an indirect payment of at least $100,000 to Melania Trump.

Link to tweet

Since her husband took office Melania Trump has earned six figures from an unusual deal with a photo agency in which major media organizations have indirectly paid the Trump family despite a requirement that the photos be used only in positive coverage.

President Donald Trump's most recent financial disclosure reveals that in 2017 the first lady earned at least $100,000 from Getty Images for the use of any of a series of 187 photos of the first family shot between 2010 and 2016 by Belgian photographer Regine Mahaux.

It's not unheard of for celebrities to earn royalties from photos of themselves, but it's very unusual for the wife of a currently serving elected official. More problematic for the many news organizations that have published or broadcast the images, however, is that Getty's licensing agreement stipulates the pictures can be used in "positive stories only."

[Freethinker65]

1. So does the same deal exist for Trump's spawn?

[mr_lebowski]

2. Kinda misleading to use photos of her acting in official capacity for a story like this ...

When they're actually apparently all professionally done photos from before the Election.

As long as they're not selling her photos 'while on the job' (i.e. while she's on the public payroll), then I don't think this is any big deal.

Although if any of these photos are obviously 'from the campaign trail' then that becomes pretty sketchy.

I mean it looks bad to be 'profiting from the Presidency' like that but as long as it's not taxpayer money I don't think we get any mileage outta whinging about it.

[Submariner]

3. Yeah, I heard Larry Flynt pays well for photos

I'm sure the racist grifter pig cleaned up.