UK Telegraph apologises, pays ‘substantial damages’ over Melania Trump article
- The claims were made in a story entitled ‘The mystery of Melania’, which ran on the cover of last Saturday’s Telegraph magazine
- Newspaper has now said it included a number of errors about Donald Trump’s wife which should not have been published
London’s Daily Telegraph apologised to US first lady Melania Trump and said it had agreed to pay her “substantial damages” for publishing false statements regarding her family and her modelling career.
It was at least the third time that the first lady has successfully sued publications or online blogs over defamatory articles.
“We apologise 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 this month 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 modelling career before she met Donald Trump nor that she had advanced in her career due to his help.