{UAH} Melania Trump Sues Daily Mail Over 'Escort' Claims

Melania Trump, wife of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on Thursday filed a lawsuit against two media entities for libel over reports that she was an "escort" in the 1990s.

"Melania Trump filed suit today in the state circuit court for Montgomery County, Maryland against Mail Media, Inc. which publishes the Daily Mail Online, and against Webster G. Tarpley who publishes a weblog in Montgomery County, Maryland," Melania Trump's attorney, Charles Harder, said in a statement.

"These defendants made several statements about Mrs. Trump that are 100% false and tremendously damaging to her personal and professional reputation."

In late August, the lawyer for Melania Trump had notified news agencies, including the Daily Mail and Politico, of potential legal action against those who have defamed Mrs. Trump as "having been an 'escort' in the 1990s," Harder said in an email statement to CNN.

The Daily Mail, The Week, Politico, Inquisitr, Tarpley, Before It's News, Liberal America, LawNewz, Winning Democrats and Bipartisan Report were the publications addressed in the email warning, the Trump lawyer told CNNMoney on Monday.

The Daily Mail referenced a report in a Slovenian magazine about the escort claim and several organizations repeated the potentially libelous report.

Harder, who represented Hulk Hogan in his defamation suit against Gawker, told CNNMoney the notices represented a threat to sue and warning to issue a correction or a retraction.

Inquisitr and Bipartisan Report both issued retractions of the "hearsay" reports Monday.

Legal experts told CNN Money an outlet in the U.K. is more susceptible to a libel lawsuit than those in the U.S. because of laws that favor the plaintiff.

The U.S. libel laws put more burden of proof on the plaintiff

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