Melania Trump sues the ‘Daily Mail’ again for 150 million
According to the lawyers, "the first lady lost a unique opportunity to earn millions with her brand" after the media published that she had worked as an ‘escort’ in the 1990s.
Melania Trump is not willing to let pass the information from the Daily Mail that claimed that she worked as an escort in the nineties. Today's first lady of the United States has filed a lawsuit against the British newspaper in New York on Monday. According to the documents against the corporation that owns the tabloid, the rumors about Melania Trump have damaged her ability to benefit from her image, for which they claim compensation of 150 million dollars (about 140 million euros).
“[Melania Trump] had a unique opportunity, as an extremely famous and well-known person, as well as a former model, brand image and successful businesswoman, to launch a trademark with several products, each of which could have provided her with business relationships. billionaires during the years in which she is going to be one of the most photographed women in the world ", reads the document presented by her lawyers in a New York court. For all these reasons, the brief from California attorney Charles Harder - who has represented other well-known clients, such as Amber Heard or Hulk Hogan - requests millionaire compensation for emotional and economic damages. The products, according to the papers, could have included clothing, accessories, jewelry, cosmetics, hair care products or perfumes. According to them, her articles have significantly lost the value of the brand and “great business opportunities”. The lawsuit further says that the Daily Mail article "challenged her fitness to perform her duties as the first lady of the United States."
A lawsuit that has already aroused the suspicion of some, as there are those who highlight that never before has an American first lady declared in public her desire to earn money with her role.
Donald Trump's wife filed the same lawsuit against Mail Media Inc. in a Maryland court in September, which it dismissed on the grounds that it was not the right court to do so. Now, she has been transferred to New York, where the company has offices. The 46-year-old former Slovenian model denounced Mail Media Inc. and blogger Webster Tarpley after they retracted the rumors that she worked as an escort in a Milan nightclub before moving out last August. In New York. The lawsuit against Tarpley is continuing in the courts of Maryland, where the blogger is from.
“The apology from the Daily Mail came several weeks after they published the article, knowing that it was going to be reproduced by different publications… there were hundreds of publications that ended up publishing that terrible lie that the Daily Mail has perpetuated. The damage has already been done, ”Melania Trump's lawyer told The Guardian newspaper after filing the first lawsuit.
“The article claimed that Melania's professional career as a model in the 1990s was a ruse, and that she instead worked as an elite escort in the sex business, among other completely false and highly defamatory statements. The Daily Mail had no basis for making these false, damaging and defamatory statements, ”the new lawsuit reads. In its retraction brief, the publication claimed that it had “no intention of stating or suggesting that these allegations are true, nor was it intended to stating or suggesting that Ms. Trump had ever worked as an escort or in the business of the sex".
