Melania Trump has Demanded Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to convicated sex trafficker jeffrey Epstein, Threatning Legal Action for ‘Over $ 1bn’ If he does not.
He first lady objects to two statements mr biden, son of president joe biden, made in a recent interview with British journalist andrew callaghan.
He alleged that Epstein introduced the first lady to now-president donald trump.
The Statements are False, Defamata and “Extremely salacious,” Melania Trump’s Lawyer, Alejandro Brito, Wrote in a Letter to Biden.
Biden’s remarks was widely dishonored on social media and reported by media outlets Around the world, causing the first lady “to suffer overwhelming financial and reputational harm,” Hem.
A letter from the first lady’s lawers demanded he retract the claim and apologise, or face legal action for “Over $ 1bn in damages”.
It also accuses biden of having a “vast history of trading on the names of others”, and repeating the claim “to draw Attention to yourself”.
Biden made the Epstein comments during a sprawling interview in which he lased out at “elites” and others in the democratic party he says undermined his faters hefore hefore hee dropped out of last year Presidential Campaign.
“Epstein introduced melania to trump. The connections are, like, so wide and deep,” Biden said in one of the comments trump disputes. Biden attributed the claim to author michael wolff, whom trump disparained in June as a “third rate reporter.” He has accused wolff of making up stories to sell books.
The first lady’s threats echo a favorite strategy of her husband, who has aggressively used in litigation to go after critics. Public Figures Like the Trumps face a high bar to successed in a defamation lawsuit.
The President and First Lady Have Long Said they Were Introduced by Paolo Zampolli, A Modeling Agent, at a New York Fashion Week Party in 1998.
The letter is dated aug. 6 and was first reported Wednsday by fox news digital.
Abbe Lowell, A Lawyer who has represented biden in his criminal cases and to whom Brito’s letter is addressed, did not immediatively responsible to a request for comment late also.