Melania Trump’s wedding dress is there for the taking — for the right bid.
The first lady’s lavish Christian Dior by John Galliano gown from her and President Donald Trump’s January 2005 nuptials appears to be for sale on eBay.
Writer Liana Satenstein told her “Neverworns” Substack subscribers on Tuesday that the couture creation, for which Melania reportedly paid $100,000, is listed on the site for $45,000 (or best offer) with free shipping by a woman who claims to have purchased it from the first lady.
Satenstein credited pal Patricia Torvalds with stumbling upon the style while searching for “80s Dior dresses.”
The eBay listing has been live since January.
The seller allegedly told Torvalds that she purchased the dress from Melania — with whom she shared a mutual friend — for her own 2010 wedding for $70,000.
She copped to making minor changes to the original design, including “a new layer of satin on the bottom, embroidery pieces on the top and more fabric on the back of the dress” as well as “added straps.”
Melania memorably modeled the dress (and the matching 16-foot-long veil) on the cover of Vogue in February 2005 on the heels of her wedding in Palm Beach.
The extravagant ensemble was made from 300 feet of white duchesse satin and hand-embroidered with crystal beading for a reported 550 hours.
The iconic gown — which Melania selected in Paris with the help of none other than Anna Wintour herself — boasts a fitted bodice and mermaid skirt.
It even weighs a whopping 60 pounds, according to the original Vogue article.
President Trump, who proposed to the former model on the way to the 2004 Met Gala, shared a throwback photo of Melania in the gown while celebrating two decades of marriage via Instagram in January.
A slew of A-listers attended the couple’s wedding, from Bill and Hillary Clinton to Katie Couric and Shaquille O’Neal.
The POTUS proposed to his partner in April 2004, six years after they became an item, and Melania gave birth to son Barron, now 19, in March 2006.
While the wedding was her first, Donald was previously married to Ivana Trump and Marla Maples, with whom he welcomed four children.
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