Melania Trump and Daily Mail Settle Her Libel Suits -<br />By THE NEW YORK TIMESAPRIL 12, 2017<br />LONDON — The Daily Mail apologized to Melania Trump on Wednesday and agreed to pay damages to settle two lawsuits she had filed over an article last year asserting<br />that the professional modeling agency she worked for in the 1990s had also been an escort service.<br />The article also claimed that Mr. and Mrs. Trump may have met three years before they actually met, and ‘staged’ their actual meeting as a ‘ruse.’ ”<br />The statement noted that the retraction and apology would be published in The Daily Mail and in its American and British online versions, and it added<br />that the newspaper would pay damages and the costs of the litigation.<br />“The article included statements that Mrs. Trump denied the allegations and Paolo Zampolli, who ran the modeling agency, also denied the allegations, and the article also stated<br />that there was no evidence to support the allegations.<br />Instead, it said that the article had harmed her opportunities “to launch a broad-based commercial brand in multiple product categories,” noting<br />that “the plaintiff is one of the most photographed women in the world,” and asserting that “the plaintiff’s brand has lost significant value.”<br />On Jan. 20, the day Mr. Trump was sworn in as president, the White House altered its online biography of Mrs. Trump, after complaints<br />that the original wording had promoted her line of jewelry.<br />“The legal actions concerned allegations published in late August 2016 questioning the nature of work undertaken by Mrs. Trump in the 1990s, when she worked as a professional model, and republished allegations<br />that she provided services beyond simply modeling,” the statement said.
