Plus legal costs.
Britain’s Telegraph newspaper has apologized to First Lady Melania Trump for a cover story it ran last Saturday titled “The Mystery of Melania”. An apology for an article filled with false information against Mrs. Trump is unusual enough. Add into the equation that the newspaper has also paid “substantial” damages plus legal fees and we have a bit of a story here.
The newspaper said Saturday it apologizes “unreservedly” to Mrs. Trump and her family for any embarrassment caused by the content of a cover story published Jan. 19 in the newspaper’s weekly magazine supplement.
“As a mark of our regret we have agreed to pay Mrs. Trump substantial damages as well as her legal costs,” The Telegraph said. The newspaper did not disclose the size of the settlement with Mrs. Trump.
The Telegraph said it falsely characterized Mrs. Trump’s father’s personality, falsely reported the reasons she left an architecture program, and falsely reported her career as a model was unsuccessful before she met Donald Trump.
But, wait, that’s not all. Also included from the article in the Washington Post:
“We accept that Mrs. Trump was a successful professional model in her own right before she met her husband and obtained her own modeling work without his assistance,” the newspaper said, also acknowledging it had incorrectly reported the year when the couple first met.
