Melania Trump sued the "Daily Mail"
The tabloid had written that she maybe she had been an escort in the 90s and maybe she had illegally entered the United States: she asked for a compensation of 150 million dollars.
On September 2, Melania Trump - who is 46, is a former Slovenian naturalized American model and is the wife of Donald Trump - sued the British tabloid Daily Mail and Webster Tarpley, a US journalist and blogger, for defamation. that Melania Trump escorted in the 1990s, reporting rumors without proof or confirmation The lawsuit was filed in a court in Maryland, United States, and Melania Trump asked for $ 150 million in compensation.
The Daily Mail is a tabloid known for its constant unreliability and the few cautions used in publishing the news. Melania Trump - who being the wife of Donald Trump is the possible future first lady of the United States - sued because in August the Daily Mail published some articles, now removed, in which she wrote that perhaps Melania Trump had been an escort, and that there were those who claimed that it had arrived in the United States a year earlier than it had been declared (accusation that it would have legal consequences, if confirmed).
Charles Harder, Melania Trump's attorney, said both Tarpley and the Daily Mail "have written things about Melania Trump that are 100 percent false and incredibly damaging to her personal and professional reputation, and spread those lies to millions of people who are in the United States and in the world ». Regarding the allegations about her entry into the United States, Melania Trump had already written on August 4 - when she had also mentioned a Politico article - that in every moment she had been in the United States she had done in a legal way.
— MELANIA TRUMP (@MELANIATRUMP) August 4, 2016
In the text of the case Melania Trump wrote that despite the articles being removed, the Daily Mail has not yet formally apologized for what she wrote. However, on September 2, the Daily Mail published - both online and in print - an article in which it says that the newspaper did not intend to accuse Melania Trump of having been an escort, but that it had limited itself to reporting rumors that supported him. . Harder is also the attorney who represented former wrestler Hulk Hogan in his case against Gawker, which has been talked about a lot in recent months and days, after Gawker closed.
