Melania now lives at Mar-a-Lago — but stays far away from Trump: report

U.S. President Donald Trump, first lady Melania Trump and Viktor Knavs, Melania Trump's father, take part in a Christmas Eve dinner in the ballroom of his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, U.S., December 24, 2025. REUTERS/Jessica Koscielniak

First Lady Melania Trump now shares Mar-a-Lago with her husband again, though she's keeping her distance from President Donald Trump even when he's back at his Palm Beach estate.

That's according to a Tuesday article in the Daily Beast's "The Swamp" newsletter, which reported that Melania Trump has officially changed her address from Trump Tower in Manhattan to Mar-a-Lago. According to Palm Beach County Circuit Court records, the first lady made her new address official in October of 2025, meaning she is now sharing a residence with her husband. Melania no longer has a designated section of the White House, as Trump bulldozed the East Wing of the White House last year to make room for his 90,000 square-foot ballroom.

However, the Beast reported that Melania is "like a princess in a tower," choosing to sleep alone in a 75-foot tower on a completely different wing of the property from Mar-a-Lago's private family quarters, where her husband sleeps. Photos of the family quarters published in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution show the rooms decorated in Trump's signature style of opulent, gilded, Versailles-like grandeur.

Melania's residence is instead in a tower that was originally built to pull in ocean breezes to cool the property, but has since been repurposed into some of the 58 bedrooms in Mar-a-Lago. The Beast cited unnamed "locals in Palm Beach" who say the first lady hardly ever leaves the property.

In addition to Melania moving in, Trump's ex-wife, Marla Maples, has also "been spending more time at Mar-a-Lago," per the Beast. The outlet cited a report from the Spectator, in which Trump's former spouse said she utters a prayer every morning "to be a light to all those I meet and that those who are not meant to be on this path with me drift away with grace and ease."

"Whoever could she mean?" The Beast's David Gardner, Farrah Tomazin, and Sarah Ewall-Wice quipped.

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