A Daily Mail story last month cited a Slovenian magazine’s report that a modelling agency that Trump worked with in NY in the 1990s also served as an escort business, linking wealthy clients with women for sexual services.
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Her suit was filed in state court in Montgomery County, Md.
Melania Trump, the wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, filed a libel lawsuit on Thursday against a Maryland blogger and the parent company of the Daily Mail over reports that she was once an “escort”.
“Defendants broadcast their lies to millions of people throughout the US and the world-without any justification”, Harder said in a statement about the case. Melania Trump moved to the United States from Slovenia in 1996 and married Donald Trump in 2005 at a wedding attended by the Republican presidential nominee’s rival, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Trump had retained Charles Harder as her attorney.
The Daily Mail did not immediately respond to a request for comment. She married Donald Trump, the Republican nominee for the November 8 election, in 2005.
Trump is suing the outlets – which include Webster Griffin Tarpley, who runs Tarpley.net, a political website – over stories that claimed she worked as a “high-end escort” and that she suffered from a “full-blown nervous breakdown” due to the stress of the campaigning, according to her complaint.
The Mail story claimed that Trump worked for a NY modeling agency run by a man who “also operated as an escort agency for wealthy clients”.
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Harde also represented Hulk Hogan in his successful defamation suit against Gawker Media, which shuit down after being ordered to pay a massive settlement.
