Melania Trump Beats The Daily Mail

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

United States First Lady Melania Trump scored a legal victory by getting the British newspaper Daily Mail to publicly apologize to her and agree to compensate her monetarily for defaming her by publishing that in the 1990s, she worked as a company lady.

In February, Mrs. Trump presented her case in a New York court, where she asked for her own compensation. "We accept that these accusations about Mrs. Trump are not true and we withdraw them," Andrew Nicol, one of the lawyers for the British publication, told the Royal Courts of Justice of London, as reported by The New York Times. She also made it clear that the plaintiff will be paid damages and apologized "for any anguish that our publication caused her."

This agreement ends a litigation that began on August 20, when that outlet published a story in which it was said that Trump, in addition to being a model, also worked as a company lady at an agency for wealthy clients.

At all times the now first lady and Paulo Zampolli, who ran the modeling agency where she worked, denied those allegations and indicated that there was no evidence to prove them.

The information in the Daily Mail was replicated by various media outlets and the ex-model's lawyers immediately sent out a warning saying that they were "under notice … for making false and defamatory statements."

The terms of the agreement that Donald Trump's wife reached with the newspaper were not immediately disclosed by the parties involved, but media around the world have reported that the figure that he will receive is $ 2.9 million.