Amazon has paid $40 million for a documentary of Melania Trump’s life story in Jeff Bezos’s latest attempt to ingratiate himself with the president-elect.

The incoming first lady will serve as an executive producer for the film, but it's unclear how much she'll be paid.

The film, billed by the company as a “behind the scenes” look at her life, started shooting in December and is slated for theatrical and streaming release this year.

Amazon has cozied up to President-elect Donald Trump since he won the election, with a documentary about his wife, incoming first lady Melania Trump, being its latest gesture.

Ratner has not commented on his latest gig, for which shooting is currently under way. But he recently shared an Instagram post in Palm Beach, where the Trump compound Mar-a-Lago is located. The 55 -year-old filmmaker was pictured in a car with local real estate mogul Todd Michael Glaser. “The good life,” said the caption. “#PalmBeachProper.”

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Melania Trump is the focus of a new documentary that's set for release by Amazon Prime Video later this year, the company announced Sunday.

Incoming first lady Melania Trump will be the subject of a new documentary coming to Amazon’s Prime Video this year, CNN has learned, offering a rare window into one of President-elect Donald Trump’s most trusted — and famously private — advisers.

The film, scheduled to be released later this year, will give viewers an “unprecedented behind-the-scenes look” at the incoming first lady’s life, Amazon said.

The choice by Bezos’s film and TV studio to pay such a sum to produce Melania Trump’s ‘vanity documentary’ represents the latest public effort by the Amazon founder to