Melania scores big win on Epstein claims

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00:00Melania scores big win on Epstein claims.

00:03HarperCollins UK has apologized to First Lady Melania Trump

00:07after removing passages from a recently published book

00:10that contained unverified claims about her.

00:13HarperCollins UK recently published a book by Andrew Loney

00:17titled, Entitled, The Rise and Fall of the House of York.

00:22We have, in consultation with the author,

00:24removed passages of the book that referenced unverified claims

00:27about the First Lady of the United States.

00:29Melania Trump, the publisher said in a statement posted on X.

00:34Copies of the book that include those references

00:36are being permanently removed from distribution.

00:39HarperCollins UK apologizes to the First Lady.

00:42President Donald Trump's past relationship with Epstein

00:45drew attention after the Department of Justice announced in July

00:48that it would not release additional files

00:50from Epstein's trafficking investigation,

00:53despite earlier commitments to do so.

00:55According to The Telegraph,

00:57around 60,000 copies of the book were printed before the retraction.

01:01One of the problematic claims in the earlier edition

01:03is an allegation that Epstein introduced the president to his third wife,

01:07a claim now removed.

01:09In her 2024 memoir, Melania,

01:12the First Lady wrote that she and Donald met at a party

01:15at New York's Kit Kat Club in 1998

01:17and were introduced by someone else,

01:20not Epstein.

01:21Separately, in August,

01:23Melania threatened legal action against Hunter Biden,

01:26accusing him of making false, defamatory,

01:29disparaging, and inflammatory statements.

01:32In an interview suggesting the president and Epstein

01:34were very close friends,

01:36and that Epstein had introduced the couple,

01:38Nick Clemens, a spokesperson for the First Lady,

01:41told NBC News,

01:43First Lady Melania Trump's attorneys

01:44are actively ensuring immediate retractions

01:47and apologies by those who spread malicious,

01:49defamatory falsehoods.

01:51The true account of how the First Lady met President Trump

01:53is in her best-selling book, Melania.

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