Deadline is reporting that The Daily Mail has retracted a story alleging Melania Trump was once an escort. The move came hours after the dubious U.K. newspaper was hit with a $150 million defamation lawsuit filed by Trump, in which her team of lawyers stated that Trump did “legitimate and legal modeling work for legitimate business entities and did not work for any ‘gentleman’s club’ or ‘escort agencies.” The suit also claims that the Daily Mail’s claims could “derail [Donald] Trump,” so let’s hope that’s the case.
The piece, which is no longer available on The Daily Mail’s site, ran under the headline “Naked photoshoots, and troubling questions about visas that won’t go away: The VERY racy past of Donald Trump’s Slovenian wife.” In the story, the paper raised allegations that Melania Trump had worked at a Milan modeling agency that was “something like a gentlemen’s club” and referenced an article in Slovenian magazine Suzy that Trump’s New York modeling agency “operated as an escort agency for wealthy clients.”