Here's your Forbes Daily Briefing for Sunday, February 9th.

Today on Forbes, after years of making virtually no money, Melania Trump finally cashes in.

Donald Trump has long mixed business and family.

He grew up that way, learning real estate at the foot of his father, before building his own household and

leaning on those closest to him. Ivana, his first wife, became an executive at his casino.

Marla, his second wife, hosted the Miss Universe pageant. Don Jr., Ivanka, and Eric, his three

oldest offspring, took leading roles in his real estate firm. As for Melania,

his third wife, she barely dipped a toe in the family business. That may have been just how

Donald Trump wanted it. In 1994, he blamed his first divorce on Ivana's role in his empire.

He said, quote, I think that putting a wife to work is a very dangerous thing. A softness

disappeared. There was a great softness to Ivana, and she still has that softness, but during this

period of time, she became an executive, not a wife. In the same interview conducted four years

before he met Melania, Trump added, quote, I love creating stars, and to a certain extent,

I've done that with Ivana, to a certain extent I've done that with Marla.

Unfortunately, after there's a star, the fun is over for me.

It's like the creation process.

It's almost like creating a building.

It's pretty sad.

It's no wonder Melania seated the floor almost entirely to her larger-than-life

husband during his first term. This time, though, Melania is taking a slightly different approach,

copying his money-making formula, which requires a bit more airtime. In October, she released

Melania, a self-titled memoir that came out 37 years after Trump's

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