Daily Mail Pays Melania Trump $2.9 Million To Settle Lawsuit Over Modeling Claims

Britain’s Daily Mail said Wednesday it agreed to pay First Lady Melania Trump $2.9 million in damages (according to the WSJ) and issue an apology after it published an article saying the U. S. First Lady had offered “services beyond simply modeling” when working as a model in the 1990s. The Daily Mail and its Mail Online website said in a statement that it accepts the allegations it published in a 2016 article are ‘not true’ and apologized for the distress the article caused.
Trump’s wife had sued the publisher of the Daily Mail in Britain and also filed a $150 million (120 million pound) lawsuit against it in New York, claiming the article had cost her millions of dollars in potential business.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on Apr 12, 2017.