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csziggy

(34,120 posts)
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 12:48 PM Feb 2017

Melania Trump admits in lawsuit she planned to use White House for profit

Melania Trump missed out on ‘once-in-a-lifetime opportunity’ to make millions, lawsuit says
By Tom Hamburger February 6 at 11:02 PM

A lawyer for first lady Melania Trump argued in a lawsuit filed Monday that an article falsely alleging she once worked for an escort service hurt her chance to establish “multimillion dollar business relationships” during the years in which she would be “one of the most photographed women in the world.”

The suit, filed Monday in New York State Supreme Court in Manhattan against Mail Media, the owner of the Daily Mail, said the article published by the Daily Mail and its online division last August caused Trump’s brand, Melania, to lose “significant value” as well as “major business opportunities that were otherwise available to her.” The suit noted that the article had damaged Trump’s “unique, once in a lifetime opportunity” to “launch a broad-based commercial brand.”

“These product categories would have included, among other things, apparel accessories, shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, hair care, skin care and fragrance,” according to the lawsuit, which was filed on Trump’s behalf by California attorney Charles Harder.

Neither Harder nor the White House responded to requests for comment late Monday. Harder has represented several high-profile clients, including wrestler Hulk Hogan, who won a $140 million invasion of privacy verdict against Gawker last year.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/melania-trump-missed-out-on-once-in-a-lifetime-opportunity-to-make-millions-lawsuit-says/2017/02/06/3654f070-ecd0-11e6-9973-c5efb7ccfb0d_story.html
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Melania Trump admits in lawsuit she planned to use White House for profit (Original Post) csziggy Feb 2017 OP
More More More,,,,,, Cryptoad Feb 2017 #1
This suit makes her look worse than once being an escort does The Blue Flower Feb 2017 #2
First Lady of the United States... dchill Feb 2017 #3
Weird to draw attention to escort claim but then wanting to exploit being First Lady for profit wishstar Feb 2017 #4
Just being part of the family Jim Beard Feb 2017 #5

The Blue Flower

(5,420 posts)
2. This suit makes her look worse than once being an escort does
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 01:00 PM
Feb 2017

She's admitting she wants to use her position--which she isn't fulfilling anyway--for profit. No First Lady in history has ever done anything remotely like that. She ruining her own reputation.

wishstar

(5,267 posts)
4. Weird to draw attention to escort claim but then wanting to exploit being First Lady for profit
Tue Feb 7, 2017, 01:17 PM
Feb 2017

Without her frivolous lawsuits, many or most Americans may have never heard about any escort activities.

But more appalling than the possibility she was paid by wealthy men for escort services, is the notion that she was planning to cash in on the First Lady gig .

So in summary, accusations of her being a porn model and being an escort obviously didn't derail her from becoming First Lady but only from profiting from being First Lady- that is totally messed up.

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