Melania Trump missed out on ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to make millions, lawsuit says

The following article by Tom Hamberger was posted on the Washington Post website February 7, 2017:

An attorney for first lady Melania Trump argued in a lawsuit filed Monday that an article falsely alleging that she once worked for an escort service hurt her chance to establish “multimillion dollar business relationships” during the years in which she would be “one of the most photographed women in the world.”

The suit — filed Monday in New York Supreme Court, a state trial court, in Manhattan — against Mail Media, the owner of the Daily Mail, said the article published by the Daily Mail and its online division last August caused Trump’s brand, Melania, to lose “significant value” as well as “major business opportunities that were otherwise available to her.” The suit said the article had damaged her “unique, once in a lifetime opportunity” to “launch a broad-based commercial brand.” Continue reading “Melania Trump missed out on ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to make millions, lawsuit says”