Melania Trump's professional website vanishes as her college degree gets questioned

Melania Trump, wife of Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump walks to the stage as Donald Trump applaudss during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, 2016. less Melania Trump, wife of Republican Presidential Candidate Donald Trump walks to the stage as Donald Trump applaudss during the opening day of the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Monday, July 18, ... more Photo: J. Scott Applewhite, AP Photo: J. Scott Applewhite, AP Image 1 of / 47 Caption Close Melania Trump's professional website vanishes as her college degree gets questioned 1 / 47 Back to Gallery

The professional website of Melania Trump, wife of the Republican presidential nominee, has performed a Houdini act.

The website with her biography suddenly vanished on Wednesday afternoon, according to the Huffington Post, and occurred as the media was questioning whether she earned an undergraduate degree in architecture from the University of Ljubljana in Melania's native Slovenia.

In her online biography, Melania claimed she completed her degree, but this fact was questioned when Melania Trump: The Inside Story: From a Slovenian communist Village to the White House, an unauthorized biography of the potential first lady, hit bookshelves this year.

The book says she left university after a year to start a modeling career.

Padding Melania's educational achievements "was almost certainly done in consultation with Trump and his advisors, as they were desperate to give off the impression that the Slovenian model was not just beautiful, but also smart and well-educated," a passage in the book reads.

Questions about Melania's education started to arise when it became apparent that passages from her speech at the Republican National Convention were lifted from First Lady Michelle Obama's speech at the Democratic National Convention in 2008.

SFGATE reached out to the Donald Trump campaign for comment and hadn't heard back at the time of publishing this story.