Melania
Trump, the wife of the President of the United States, Donald Trump
will be paid the sum of $3 million over a defaming article about her
modelling career.
U.S. First Lady, Melania Trump
Daily Mail, a UK newspaper has agreed to pay damages to the U.S.
First Lady, Melania Trump over an article about her modelling career.
During the run-up to the U.S. Presidential Elections in 2016, the
newspaper had reported that Melania Trump once worked as an escort, but
later retracted its article.
Mrs Trump accepted damages and an apology from the newspaper at
London’s High Court. She filed her lawsuit in February, seeking damages
of $150m (£120m) but the amount accepted by Mrs Trump was not disclosed
in court. However, Reuters news agency reports that the amount was less
than $3 million and it is to cover legal costs and damages.
In its apology, the Daily Mail acknowledged it had published “allegations that she provided services beyond simply modelling.”
“We accept that these allegations about Mrs Trump are not true,” the newspaper said.
A lawyer for Mrs Trump told the London court the allegations “strike at the heart of the claimant’s personal integrity and dignity”.
Mrs Trump’s lawsuit initially said that Mrs Trump had the
“unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity… 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 [she] is one of the most photographed women
in the world”.
Critics used the phrasing to question whether Mrs Trump had plans
to make financial gains from her position. A second version of the suit,
re-filed weeks later, dropped the controversial wording.
-NAN
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