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TexasTowelie

(117,361 posts) Fri Sep 2, 2016, 12:34 AM Sep 2016

Melania Trump hits Daily Mail with $150M lawsuit for story claiming the ex-model was a prostitute

An outraged Melania Trump filed a $150 million lawsuit Thursday against The Daily Mail for publishing a story that repeated claims she had worked as a paid escort in the 1990s.

Trump’s defamation suit said The Daily Mail, which operates a newspaper in England and a global website, maliciously circulated the false report, according to CNN.

The suit also named Tarpley, a U.S. blog, for repeating the allegations, court papers show.

“These defendants made several statements about Mrs. Trump that are 100% false and tremendously damaging to her personal and professional reputation,” Trump’s lawyer said in a statement, according to CNN.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/melania-trump-sues-daily-mail-150m-escort-article-1.2774769

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Melania Trump hits Daily Mail with $150M lawsuit for story claiming the ex-model was a prostitute (Original Post) TexasTowelie Sep 2016 OP

Professional reputation? LOL oldtime dfl_er Sep 2016 #1

I'm sorry but after you pose nude, really? onecaliberal Sep 2016 #2

The only problem lapfog_1 Sep 2016 #3

Ooooooh, the DISCOVERY PHASE of that hot mess is gonna be fun....... MADem Sep 2016 #4

oldtime dfl_er

(6,996 posts)

1. Professional reputation? LOL

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Sep 2, 2016, 12:37 AM

Sep 2016

In my opinion, she sold herself to the highest bidder. I can't abide Piers Morgan and hope the Daily Fail actually does fail. At the same time, I'd love to be on whatever jury might hear this case.

onecaliberal

(36,227 posts)

2. I'm sorry but after you pose nude, really?

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Sep 2, 2016, 12:51 AM

Sep 2016

lapfog_1

(30,225 posts)

3. The only problem

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Sep 2, 2016, 12:52 AM

Sep 2016

is that the article didn't say that.

Rather it reported that another magazine from Slovenia claimed that the same agency or a close sister agency to the one she worked for also imported girls to work as escorts.

At least that's how I read it.

MADem

(135,425 posts)

4. Ooooooh, the DISCOVERY PHASE of that hot mess is gonna be fun.......

Reply to TexasTowelie (Original post)

Fri Sep 2, 2016, 01:01 AM

Sep 2016

But I'll bet this is just a shakedown--they want a quick million or two from the Daily Mail to settle.

Makes me wonder if they really ARE broke and need "day to day" money. This is one way to get it. The DM did retract the story in no uncertain terms:

“Their many lies include, among others, that Mrs. Trump supposedly was an ‘escort’ in the 1990s before she met her husband,” said Trump’s lawyer Charles Harder, who also represented Hulk Hogan in his defamation suit that put Gawker out of business. That suit was secretly funded by billionaire and Trump fan Peter Thiel.

“Defendants’ actions are so egregious, malicious and harmful to Mrs. Trump that her damages are estimated at $150 million dollars,” he said.

Not long after news of the lawsuit emerged, The Daily Mail issued a retraction of its Aug. 20 story that ran in print and online. The news outlet said its reports were based on allegations made in a book “available on Amazon” that an Italian agency where Trump worked doubled as “gentlemen’s club,” and an article in Suzy, a Slovenian magazine, that Trump’s New York agency also functioned as an escort service.

“The article ... did not intend to state or suggest that these allegations are true, nor did it intend to state or suggest that Mrs. Trump ever worked as an ‘escort’ or in the 'sex business,’” the statement said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/melania-trump-sues-daily-mail-150m-escort-article-1.2774769

Weird how SHE keeps bringing the issue to the fore....everytime it fades to the background, she pops up out of what looks like hiding, griping again....

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