Melania Trump sues Daily Mail for calling her an ‘Escort’

WASHINGTON: America’s first lady Melania Trump has relaunched a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the Daily Mail Online, claiming that the publication prevented her from reaping the “once-in-a-lifetime” windfall to be had as a business lady married to the president.

In a separate but related case, Trump on Tuesday settled for an unspecified “substantial sum” a suit against blogger Webster G. Tarpley, who made the same escort claims.

President Donald Trump’s wife, a former Slovenian model, is suing the publication for reporting rumors that she worked as an escort in the



1990s.

In court documents filed Monday, the first lady said that she and her brand had missed out on “multiple millions of dollars” in licensing, marketing and endorsement opportunities that would otherwise have been available to someone spending time as “one of the most photographed women in the world.”

Melania, the suit said, had “the unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as an extremely famous and well-known person, as well as a former professional model and brand spokesperson, and successful businesswoman,” to have profited from the situation.