{"id":310202,"date":"2017-04-12T14:39:45","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:39:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=310202"},"modified":"2017-04-12T14:39:45","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T14:39:45","slug":"melania-trump-wins-damages-from-daily-mail-over-escort-allegation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/04\/melania-trump-wins-damages-from-daily-mail-over-escort-allegation\/","title":{"rendered":"Melania Trump wins damages from Daily Mail over ‘escort’ allegation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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.<\/p>\n
The newspaper had reported allegations that Melania Trump once worked as an escort, but later retracted its article.<\/p>\n
The story was published during the US election campaign last year.<\/p>\n
Mrs Trump accepted damages and an apology from the newspaper at London’s High Court.<\/p>\n
She filed lawsuits against the Daily Mail newspaper in the United Kingdom, and its digital operation Mail Online in the United States.<\/p>\n
The US suit, filed last year, sought damages of $150m (\u00a3120m). The amount accepted by Mrs Trump in London was not disclosed in court.<\/p>\n
However, reports suggest the payout was closer to $3 million, including legal costs and damages. It is understood it will also settle the case in New York.<\/p>\n
In its apology, the Daily Mail acknowledged it had published “allegations that she provided services beyond simply modelling”.<\/p>\n
The article also claimed that Mr and Mrs Trump may have met three years before they actually did, and later “staged” their first meeting.<\/p>\n
“We accept that these allegations about Mrs Trump are not true,” the newspaper said.<\/p>\n
A lawyer for Mrs Trump told the London court the allegations “strike at the heart of the claimant’s personal integrity and dignity”.<\/p>\n