Daily Mail Pays Melania Trump $2.9 Million to Settle Lawsuit
CNN/Stylemagazine.com Newswire | 4/12/2017, 7:29 a.m.
First Lady Melania Trump
By Ivana Kottasova
LONDON (CNNMoney) --
Trump will be paid about $2.9 million in damages and costs, according to a source familiar with the settlement.
"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," the Daily Mail and Mail Online said in a statement.
Trump filed a suit against the Mail Online in September, accusing it of making false and defamatory statements. The suit, which asked for at least $150 million in damages, was later moved from Maryland to New York.
Trump also filed suit against the Daily Mail in the United Kingdom.
The Daily Mail is a tabloid newspaper in Britain, but it also publishes a digital version with significant readership in the United States.
