Melania Trump Threatens to Sue Anyone Who Dares to Call Her an Ex-Hooker or Former Escort

Melania Trump’s lawyer, Charles Harder, told TheWrap in an email on Monday: “Mrs. Trump has placed several news organizations on notice of her legal claims against them, including Daily Mail among others, for making false and defamatory statements about her supposedly having been an ‘escort’ in the 1990s.”

Harder, who also represented Hulk Hogan in his successful lawsuit against Gawker, went on to say: “All such statements are 100% false, highly damaging to her reputation, and personally hurtful. She understands that news media have certain leeway in a presidential campaign, but outright lying about her in this way exceeds all bounds of appropriate news reporting and human decency. “

The brouhaha began on Friday after the Daily Mail published an article titled, “Naked photoshoots, and troubling questions about visas that won’t go away: The VERY racy past of Donald Trump’s Slovenian wife.” The article dug up past claims that Melania Trump used to be a high-class hooker, without asserting that they were factual.

The article cited what it said was a book called “From The Whore House To The White House: The True Story Of Melania Trump.” The Daily Mail admitted it “could find no trace of the book’s author,” identified as Adam Schlecter. But it quoted the book saying a modeling agency Melania Trump worked for in Milan was “something like a gentleman’s club.”

The Mail also cited a magazine article from her home country, Slovenia, that claimed Melania’s modeling agency in New York, run by New York entrepreneur, Paolo Zampolli, also operated as an escort agency for rich clients. The article said some models would offer two business cards — one for modeling, and one for sex.

The Mail said the author of the magazine piece stood by his reporting but refused to corroborate his claims.

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Earlier this month, the New York Post released nude photos of Melania Trump from early in her modeling career.

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(Warning: NSFW)