Media Fail: First Lady
Melania Trump Wins $3M In Libel Case Over 'Escort' Lie, by John Nolte, 4/12/17
According to Sky News, First Lady Melania Trump has won $3
million and an apology from publisher Associated Newspapers after the
Daily Mail claimed in August (using a sensational double-page spread) that the
former-supermodel had worked for an escort service prior to her modeling career
taking off.
The newspaper falsely claimed that the
modeling agency the First Lady worked for in Italy was "something of a gentleman's
club" and that her agency in New York "operated as an escort service
for wealthy clients."
Like the mainstream media's ongoing
campaign to pretend there was some sort of collusion between the Trump campaign
and the Russians, the Daily Mail admitted it had no evidence to back up its
smear.
The lawyer for Associated Newspapers told the judge: "The defendant acknowledges that
these claims about the claimant [Melania Trump] are untrue, and we retract and
withdraw them.
"The defendant is here today
publicly to set the record straight, and to apologize to the claimant for any
distress and embarrassment that the articles may have caused her."
In a statement, the Daily Mail said,
"We accept that these allegations
about Mrs. Trump are not true and we retract and withdraw them. We apologize to
Mrs. Trump for any distress that our publication caused her."
The Guardian reports that Mrs. Trump's original suit sought
damages of $150 million and that she has accepted the newspaper's apology.
http://www.dailywire.com/news/15341/media-fail-first-lady-melania-trump-wins-3m-libel-john-nolte
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