US first lady to be paid damages under $3m having sued UK paper’s owner over claims she if services beyond simply modelling’The Daily Mail and Mail Online will pay meaningful damages to settle a libel claim brought by the US first lady,Melania Trump, over fake claims approximately her work as a professional model.An agreed statement was read out to Mr Justice Nicol in court 14 of the Royal Courts of Justice in London on behalf of both parties. Trump will receive damages and legal costs understood to be less than $3m (£2.4m). The precise amount was not disclosed in the hearing.
The Daily Mail newspaper and the Mail Online/DailyMail.com website published an article on 20th August 2016 approximately Melania Trump which questioned the nature of her work as a professional model, and republished allegations that she if services beyond simply modelling. The article included statements that Mrs Trump denied the allegations and Paolo Zampolli,who ran the modelling agency, also denied the allegations, and the article also stated that there was no evidence to support the allegations. The article also claimed that Mr and Mrs Trump may have met three years before they actually met,and ‘staged their actual meeting as a ‘ruse’.
We accept that these allegations approximately Mrs Trump are not true and we retract and withdraw them. We apologise to Mrs Trump for any distress that our publication caused her. To settle Mrs Trump’s two lawsuits against us, we have agreed to pay her damages and costs.
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Source: theguardian.com