What Is Controversial Author Michael Wolff's Net Worth?

Michael Wolff is a journalist who has written for Vanity Fair, The Hollywood Reporter, British GQ, USA Today, and The Guardian. He is the author of Fire and Fury, a book published in 2018 about the inner workings of Donald Trump's White House.

The book's description says it's a "riveting and explosive account of Trump’s administration." The book was a #1 New York Times bestseller. He has published a dozen books, including four bestsellers about President Donald Trump.

Reports of Michael Wolff's net worth vary online, but The Economic Times notes that it is probably somewhere between $13 and $20 million. His bestseller Fire and Fury sold over 1.7 million copies in three weeks, breaking records for its publisher, Henry Holt, and selling over a million hardcover copies in the U.S. alone.

Forbes notes that Fire and Fury earned $13 billion between June 2017 and June 2018 before taxes and fees. Endeavor Content is working on a series based on the book. The title also earned him a spot on a list of the world's highest-earning authors in 2018.

Trump inadvertently helped Wolff get on that list. At the time, Wolff said, "Once a day, I cast my eyes heavenward and say, 'Thank you for Donald Trump.'"

Wolff claims that Melania shut down questions he asked about her relationship to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Per The Independent, Melania's legal team threatened him with over $1 billion in damages if he didn't apologize for and retract statements he had made connecting Melania and Epstein. Melania's legal team claimed Wolff had made "defamatory, disparaging, misleading, and inflammatory" comments about her.

He had until Oct. 21, 2025, to comply, but instead responded with a lawsuit against Melania.

Wolff's lawsuit said, "Mrs. Trump and her 'unitary executive' husband, along with their MAGA myrmidons, have made a practice of threatening those who speak against them with costly SLAPP 1 actions in order to silence their speech, to intimidate their critics generally, and to extract unjustified payments and North Korean-style confessions and apologies."

In Wolff's lawsuit, he said that Melania had been referring to comments he made to The Daily Beast that were taken out of context. More importantly, he said she didn't like comments that Wolff made suggesting that she was in Epstein's inner circle, where she met Trump, per AP News. He also said that Trump liked to have sex with his friend's wives.

Wolff claimed it was fair to question Melania's connection to Epstein.