--- ---  # Melania Trump's Website Vanishes Amid Questions About Her College Degree by [Andrea Park / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Andrea Park / People Jul 28, 2016 6:58 PM UTC  Melania Trump delivers a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016. Melania Trump delivers a speech on the first day of the Republican National Convention on July 18, 2016.Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images by [Andrea Park / People](https://time.com/author/people/) ## Andrea Park / People Jul 28, 2016 6:58 PM UTC Melania Trump’s official website has been wiped from the Internet after questions arose recently over whether the site’s claim that she holds a college degree is in fact true. MelaniaTrump.com now reroutes to the homepage of the [Trump Organization’s website](http://www.trump.com/), the extensive biography page of which bears no mention of Donald Trump’s wife. However, screengrabs from her former website [obtained by the Huffington Post](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/melania-trump-biography-deleted%5Fus%5F57990c1ae4b02d5d5ed3fed9) show that she claimed to have earned “a degree in design and architecture at University in Slovenia” before pursuing her modeling career. Additionally, much of the 46-year-old’s biography on the [2016 Republican National Convention’s website](http://convention.gop/post/147558746375/2016-gop-convention-program-announced) echoes the wording used on her former website, including her claim of “obtaining a degree in design and architecture at University in Slovenia.” However, a recent [GQ profile](http://www.gq.com/story/melania-trump-gq-interview) of Trump said she “decamped to Milan after her first year of college, effectively dropping out.” And a new unauthorized biography of the former model, Melania Trump: The Inside Story, claims that Trump’s educational history was fabricated in order to maintain a certain image, [The Hill reports](http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/289530-melania-trump-website-scrubbed-from-internet). “\[Donald Trump and his advisers\] were desperate to give off the impression that the Slovenian model was not just beautiful, but also smart and well-educated,” the biographers claim. Trump’s education came into question earlier this month after it was discovered that her GOP convention speech [plagiarized parts of a 2008 speech](http://www.people.com/article/melania-trump-michelle-obama-similar-convention-speeches) by Michelle Obama. Although Trump originally [claimed to have written the entire speech herself](http://www.people.com/article/donald-trump-melania-plagiarism-rnc-speech-michelle-obama), a Trump campaign staffer soon [took responsibility for the plagiarism](http://www.people.com/article/melania-trump-rnc-speech-plagiarism-speechwriter), claiming that Trump had sent her passages of Obama’s speech as inspiration for her own speech but the staffer failed to change the wording of those passages. > [](https://twitter.com/MELANIATRUMP/status/758727030850682880) _This_ [_article_](http://www.people.com/article/melania-trump-website-disappears-college-education) _originally appeared on_ [_People.com_](http://people.com)_._ Melania Trump's Website Just Disappeared From the Internet ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4429223/melania-trump-website-disappearance-college-degree/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4429223/melania-trump-website-disappearance-college-degree/"},"headline":"Melania Trump's Website Vanishes Amid Questions About Her College Degree","datePublished":"2016-07-28T18:58:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T23:38:15.388Z","description":"Trump tweeted that the website did not 'accurately reflect' her current business interests","url":"https://time.com/4429223/melania-trump-website-disappearance-college-degree/","keywords":["2016 Election","2016 Election topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabbfc5698ced710c/69889ccba988ca643a6b8b24/melania-trump1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Andrea Park / People"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltabbfc5698ced710c/69889ccba988ca643a6b8b24/melania-trump1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Republican National Convention: Day One","caption":"Republican National Convention: Day One","creditText":"Chip Somodevilla—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/2016-election/","name":"2016 Election"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4429223/melania-trump-website-disappearance-college-degree/","name":"Melania Trump's Website Vanishes Amid Questions About Her College Degree"}}]}] ```