Tuesday, February 7, 2017

Melania Trump Reaches Settlement in Libel Lawsuit Against Blogger

First lady Melania Trump has settled her defamation lawsuit against a Maryland blogger, who agreed to apologize to the Trump family and pay her a “substantial sum,” her lawyers said in a statement they released Tuesday morning.

“I posted an article on August 2, 2016 about Melania Trump that was replete with false and defamatory statements about her,” the blogger, Webster Tarpley, said in the statement provided by Trump’s attorneys.

Tarpley, 71 of Gaithersburg, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. One of his attorneys, Danielle D. Giroux, confirmed that a settlement had been reached.

The blogger’s article in August, reported about unfounded rumors that Melania Trump once worked as an escort.

“I had no legitimate factual basis to make these false statements and I fully retract them,” according to comments attributed to Tarpley by the Trump attorneys in their statement. “I acknowledge that these false statements were very harmful and hurtful to Mrs. Trump and her family, and therefore I sincerely apologize to Mrs. Trump, her son, her husband and her parents for making these false statements.”

 -RW

(via The Washington Post)

4 comments:

  1. Wow. Free speech is fine just don't insult my wife. What threats must have been thrown at Tarpley?

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  2. You mean the escort lied to me? She wasn't Melania? She wasn't even a model? She wasn't even a Slovakian woman? She wasn't... a woman?

    Aaaaargh!

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  3. Damn, Can't Tarpley throw in a "9/11 was an inside job" while hes got the spotlight?

    That was very dumb of him to publish such rubbish if it was unfounded. He wrote a great book the unauthorized biography of george h w.bush. Notice he wasn't sued that THAT, lol
    When I met Tarpley at a conference years ago i thanked him for writing that book on Bush. it was epic.

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