Melania Trump threatens Hunter Biden with $1 billion lawsuit over Epstein claims
Melania Trump has threatened to sue Hunter Biden in a $1 billion lawsuit over claims he made about her links to notorious child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
It’s the latest update in the seemingly never-ending Epstein drama. Former president Joe Biden’s son, Hunter, claimed in a recent interview that Melania was introduced to now-husband Donald Trump by the convicted paedophile.
Speaking to filmmaker Andrew Callaghan, Biden claimed: “Epstein introduced Melania to Trump – the connections are so wide and deep,” adding elsewhere in the interview that the alleged Epstein files would ‘implicate’ President Trump.
Melania’s legal team issued Biden a letter, the BBC reports, demanding he retract the ‘false, disparaging, defamatory and inflammatory’ statement and apologize, or face a lawsuit of at least $1 billion.
The letter notes Biden’s claim was partially attributed to journalist Michael Wolff, who said in a since-deleted Daily Beast interview that Melania was ‘known’ to an associate of Epstein when she met Trump.
Hunter Biden made the comments in a recent interview (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
The outlet retracted the story after receiving a letter of their own from Melania’s attorneys.
On the archived version of the Daily Beast story is a correction that reads: “After this story was published, The Beast received a letter from First Lady Melania Trump’s attorney challenging the headline and framing of the article. After reviewing the matter, the Beast has taken down the article and apologizes for any confusion or misunderstanding.”
There’s no verified evidence that Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. In fact, Melania said she and her now-husband met at a 1998 modelling agency party.
Melania would’ve been around 28 years old, and Trump around 52.
The BBC asked Melania’s lawyer, Alejandro Brito, about the legal threat. He referred the publication to a statement from her aide, Nick Clemens, which reads: “First Lady Melania Trump’s attorneys are actively ensuring immediate retractions and apologies by those who spread malicious, defamatory falsehoods.”
Epstein, a wealthy American financier, had built up a sprawling network of powerful connections before being exposed for the serial sex trafficking of underage girls. After a controversial 2008 plea deal, he was arrested again in July 2019 on federal sex-trafficking charges; days later, he was found dead in his Manhattan jail cell, officially ruled a suicide.