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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   Melania Trump gets settlement, apology from Daily Mail   
      
   Melania Trump is getting a reported $2.9 million in damages and legal fees   
   from the UK's Daily Mail newspaper, as well as a written apology for an   
   article it published ahead of the Presidential election.   
      
   The Wall Street Journal cited a source familiar with the settlement in its   
   report detailing the cash award.   
      
   The Daily Mail posted its apology on its website.   
      
   "The Mail Online website and the Daily Mail newspaper published an article on   
   20th August 2016 about Melania Trump which questioned the nature of her work   
   as a professional model, and republished allegations that she provided   
   services beyond simply    
   modelling. The article included statements that Mrs. Trump denied the   
   allegations and Paulo 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 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. To settle Mrs. Trump's two lawsuits against us, we   
   have agreed to pay her    
   damages and costs."   
      
   The First Lady had filed a libel lawsuit against the Daily Mail for reporting   
   rumors that she worked as an escort. In the filing, her attorneys argued the   
   report damaged her ability to profit off her high profile.   
      
   Mrs. Trump, the filing states, "had the unique, one-in-a-lifetime opportunity,   
   as an extremely famous and well-known person, as well as a former professional   
   model, brand spokesperson and successful businesswoman, to launch a   
   broad-based commercial brand    
   in multiple product categories, each of which could have garnered   
   multi-million dollar business relationships for a multi-year term during which   
   Plaintiff is one of the most photographed women in the world."   
      
   Her lawsuit sought compensatory and punitive damages of at least $150 million   
      
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