Investigation links yacht sale to Tiffany Trump, Boulos, and Kushner

A new investigation outlines a sequence of deals that began as a personal union and could have broadened into a business-to-family pipeline, raising questions about how close ties to a former president’s family can influence financial arrangements. The reporting details a yacht sale connected to Tiffany Trump’s husband, Michael Boulos, in which Kushner, her brother-in-law, was the intended recipient of a highly structured sales pitch that appears to have included an inflated price and concealed terms. It also describes an effort to secure social access for a foreign businessman connected to Boulos, all unfolding around the time of Tiffany Trump’s 2022 wedding at the Mar-a-Lago club.

The central business matter concerns an unfinished superyacht, described in documents and messages as the Solstice, which Boulos helped arrange for Kushner through his cousins’ international yacht brokerage. Kushner was told the total cost was 12.5 million euros with a 1 million euro commission for the brokers. Contemporaneous messages, however, show the brokers’ view that they were earning far more and that the actual purchase price was being misrepresented to Kushner. A key line from a broker...