First Lady Melania Trump speaks at a Toys for Tots event at Joint Base nacostia-Bolling in Washington, DC, on December 11, 2018. – (Photo: Nicholas Kamm, AFP/Getty Images)
USA TODAY
January 27, 2019
London’s Daily Telegraph apologized to first lady Melania Trump on Saturday and said it had agreed to pay her “substantial damages” for publishing false statements regarding her family and her modeling career.
It was at least the third time that the first lady has successfully sued publications or online blogs over defamatory articles.
“We apologize unreservedly to The First Lady and her family for any embarrassment caused by our publication of these allegations,” the newspaper wrote Saturday. “As a mark of our regret we have agreed to pay Mrs. Trump substantial damages as well as her legal costs.”
The claims appeared last week in a cover story in its Saturday magazine entitled “The mystery of Melania.”
The conservative British newspaper said the article should not have made the claim that Melania Trump was struggling in her modeling career before she met Donald Trump nor that she had advanced in her career due to his help.
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