Melania Trump Sues Daily Mail Over Story Claiming She Was An Escort
Posted on Fri Sep 2nd, 2016 8:10am PDT By X17 Staff
Don't mess with The Donald's lady!
Melania Trump is suing Daily Mail and a blogger named Webster Griffin Tarpley over a story they wrote in which they alleged she was an "escort" in the 90s, her lawyer confirmed to Reuters yesterday.
"Melania Trump filed suit today in the state circuit court for Montgomery County, Maryland, against Mail Media, Inc. which publishes the Daily Mail Online, and against Webster G. Tarpley who publishes a weblog in Montgomery County, Maryland. These defendants made several statements about Mrs. Trump that are 100 percent false and tremendously damaging to her personal and professional reputation," attorney Charles Harder said in a statement.
The Slovenian beauty filed for libel and is seeking over $150 million in punitive damages, USA Today reports.
Tarpey has since issued a retraction for his article titled "Naked photoshoots, and troubling questions about visas that won't go away: The VERY racy past of Donald Trump's Slovenian wife." As of this morning, the Daily Mail has also printed a retraction, but it doesn't sound like she's going down without a fight.
"The conduct of Daily Mail was despicable, abhorrent, intentional, malicious and oppressive, and thus justifies an award of punitive damages," the court documents read.
Fun fact - her lawyer is the same guy who represented Hulk Hogan in his $140 million legal victory against Gawker.