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Melania Trump wins damages from Daily Mail over 'escort' allegation | Melania Trump wins damages from Daily Mail over 'escort' allegation |
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The UK's Daily Mail newspaper has agreed to pay damages and costs to the first lady of the United States over an article about her modelling career. | The UK's Daily Mail newspaper has agreed to pay damages and costs to the first lady of the United States over an article about her modelling career. |
The newspaper had reported allegations that Melania Trump once worked as an escort, but later retracted its article. | The newspaper had reported allegations that Melania Trump once worked as an escort, but later retracted its article. |
The story was published during the US election campaign last year. | The story was published during the US election campaign last year. |
Mrs Trump accepted damages and an apology from the newspaper at London's High Court. | 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). The amount accepted by Mrs Trump was not disclosed in court. | She filed her lawsuit in February, seeking damages of $150m (£120m). The amount accepted by Mrs Trump was not disclosed in court. |
However, reports suggest the payout was closer to $3 million, including legal costs and damages. | |
In its apology, the Daily Mail acknowledged it had published "allegations that she provided services beyond simply modelling". | |
The article also claimed that Mr and Mrs Trump may have met three years before they actually did, and later "staged" their first meeting. | |
"We accept that these allegations about Mrs Trump are not true," the newspaper said. | "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". | A lawyer for Mrs Trump told the London court the allegations "strike at the heart of the claimant's personal integrity and dignity". |
Her lawyer said the double-page spread, titled "Racy photos and troubling questions about his wife's past that could derail Trump", featured an old nude photo of Mrs Trump from her modelling career. | |
"Readers of the newspaper that day could not fail to miss the article," he said. | |
The first lady had sued the Daily Mail newspaper in the United Kingdom, and its digital operation Mail Online in the United States. | |
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". | 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 as first lady. | |
A second version of the suit, re-filed weeks later, dropped the controversial wording. | A second version of the suit, re-filed weeks later, dropped the controversial wording. |
Mrs Trump was born Melanija Knavs, in Sevnica, a small town about an hour's drive from Slovenia's capital of Ljubljana. | Mrs Trump was born Melanija Knavs, in Sevnica, a small town about an hour's drive from Slovenia's capital of Ljubljana. |
She was signed to a modelling agency in her late teens, and began flying around Europe and the US, appearing in high-profile ad campaigns. | She was signed to a modelling agency in her late teens, and began flying around Europe and the US, appearing in high-profile ad campaigns. |
She met Donald Trump in 1998, when she was 28 years old, at a party during New York Fashion week. | She met Donald Trump in 1998, when she was 28 years old, at a party during New York Fashion week. |
They married seven years later. | They married seven years later. |