A new filing in Melania Trump‘s libel lawsuit against the Daily Mail casts her role as first lady as a “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity … multi-million dollar business relationships.”
President Donald Trump‘s wife on Monday re-filed a defamation suit against Mail Media, the owner of the Daily Mail, for publishing allegations last August that she once worked as a prostitute. In the lawsuit filed in the Manhattan Supreme Court, Trump’s lawyer, Charles Harder, argues for the first time that the article damaged the first lady’s “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to make millions by launching a “broad-based commercial brand.”
The filing, which...
President Donald Trump‘s wife on Monday re-filed a defamation suit against Mail Media, the owner of the Daily Mail, for publishing allegations last August that she once worked as a prostitute. In the lawsuit filed in the Manhattan Supreme Court, Trump’s lawyer, Charles Harder, argues for the first time that the article damaged the first lady’s “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” to make millions by launching a “broad-based commercial brand.”
The filing, which...
- 2/7/2017
- by Tierney McAfee
- PEOPLE.com
Melania Trump has reached a settlement with a blogger who suggested that she might have worked as an escort before becoming First Lady, according to a statement on behalf of Trump’s lawyer, Charles Harder. “The First Lady of the United States has settled her lawsuit against Webster Griffin Tarpley of Maryland,” said the statement, issued Tuesday. “Mr. Tarpley has issued the attached retraction and apology to Mrs. Trump and her family, and agreed to pay her a substantial sum as a settlement.” In his statement, Tarpley said his story, published last year, was “replete with false and defamatory statements” about Melania.
- 2/7/2017
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
First Lady Melania Trump scored a partial legal victory on Friday, with a judge shooting down arguments to dismiss the suit. According to Politico, Montgomery County Circuit Judge Sharon Burrell disagreed with blogger Webster Tarpley’s contention that the suit failed to meet the standard for “actual malice” with regard to public figures. The judge also rejected an argument by Tarpley’s lawyers that Trump’s suit runs afoul of Maryland’s Slapp law, which aims to prevent lawsuits brought to intimidate others from speaking out on public matters. Also Read: Rosie O'Donnell Dodges Melania Trump Questions in Bizarre Interview...
- 1/27/2017
- by Tim Kenneally
- The Wrap
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