TRUMP FAMILY/MELANIA: “U.S. first lady Melania Trump has accepted an apology and damages from the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper for reporting rumors about her time as a model, the two parties in the lawsuit said Wednesday.
In a joint statement, the parties said the Mail retracted its false statements that Trump “provided services beyond simply modeling” and agreed to pay damages and costs.
It also admitted as false its published claim ‘that Mr and Mrs Trump may have met three years before they actually met, and *staged* their actual meeting as a *ruse.*’
‘We accept that these allegations about Mrs Trump are not true and we retract and withdraw them. We apologise to Mrs Trump for any distress that our publication caused her,’ the statement continued.
The total settlement for the U.S. and U.K. lawsuits was about $2.9 million, according to a person familiar with the settlement who spoke on condition of anonymity to disclose the information, which was not released in court.”
-CBS News, “Melania Trump wins damages, apology from Daily Mail publisher,” CBS, April 12, 2017 9:35am