They saw each other again around the year 2000, but Jure noticed a shift. During their conversation, Melania suddenly switched from Slovenian to English. “I joked, ‘Did you forget your own language?’” he said with a laugh. At the time, he says, no one—including Melania herself—could have imagined that she would one day be living in Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.

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