The First Lady, Melania Trump has finally settled the lawsuit she filed against The Daily Mail in August.
The publication ran an article saying Trump had been an escort when she first arrived to America in the ’90s, without any evidence to back the claims up.
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Melania swiftly sued the publication for compensatory and punitive damages of at least $150 million (USD).
In the suit, she didn’t directly mention her role as First Lady, or her husband’s recent appointment as President of the United States, instead saying the article prevented her “to launch a broad-based commercial brand in multiple product categories, each of which could have garnered multi-million-dollar business relationships for a multi-year term during which plaintiff is one of the most photographed women in the world.”
The MailOnline released a statement yesterday, saying, “We accept that these allegations about Mrs. Trump are not true and we retract and withdraw them.”
“We apologise to Mrs. Trump for any distress that our publication caused her. To settle Mrs. Trump’s two lawsuits against us, we have agreed to pay her damages and costs.”
The exact amount of these ‘costs’ are reported to be around $3.8m (converted from $2.9m USD).
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