Melania Trump, the wife of the president of the United States, filed a lawsuit again, this time in New York, against a newspaper that claimed that in the 1990s she had been a luxury prostitute ("escort girl"), sources said Tuesday of your environment.
Melania Trump, a former model of Slovenian origin, is demanding $150 million in damages from the Mail Media company, which publishes the Daily Mail Online.
Furious at these "malicious and damaging" allegations released during the presidential campaign, the first lady had initially filed a lawsuit in a Maryland court on September 1, 2016. The defendants for defamation were the Daily Mail and Webster Tarpley, author of a blog in that eastern state of the country.
Mrs. Trump "had a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as an extremely famous person...to launch a trademark on a wide range of products, each of which would have guaranteed her millions of dollars in business transactions." during the years when she was destined to be one of the most photographed women in the world," the first lady's lawyers alleged.
The commercial products would have been clothing, jewelry, other accessories, beauty items, perfumery, or hairdressing, they detailed.
The lawsuit against the Daily Mail was eventually thrown out on grounds of geographic jurisdiction. Melania Trump's lawyer then appealed to a New York court.
The trial against Webster Tarpley, on the other hand, continued on its way and ended with a victory for the first lady, in the form of a negotiated settlement between the parties,
Tarpley agreed to pay Melania Trump a "significant sum" for falsely evoking an "escort girl" past for the president's current wife, Charles Harder said, without specifying the amount of compensation.
Melania Trump is the third wife of the millionaire businessman and the mother of his son Barron, whom she raises between cotton wool in her triplex at Trump Tower in New York.
