特朗普妻子怒告《每日郵報》造謠 索賠1.5億美元

Melania Trump is suing a British newspaper and a US Blogger for $150m over allegations she was a sex worker in the 1990s, her lawyer says.

據律師透露，梅拉尼亞·特朗普正在起訴英國一家報社和美國一位美國博客作者，就其污衊自己曾在上世界90年代從事過性服務進行指控，並要求1.5億美元的賠償金。

The Daily Mail suggested Mrs Trump may have worked as a part-time escort in New York, and met husband Donald Trump, who is now running for the White House.

《每日郵報》此前聲稱梅拉尼亞曾在紐約兼職當妓女，後來遇到了自己的丈夫、現在的美國總統候選人特朗普。

Blogger Webster Tarpley wrote that Mrs Trump feared her past becoming public.

博客作者韋伯斯特·塔普利之前曾寫道，梅拉尼亞·特朗普害怕她的過去被公之於衆。

The claims were "outright lying", lawyer Charles Harder said.

但是梅拉尼亞的律師查爾斯·哈德表示，這些都是“一派胡言”。

"These defendants made several statements about Mrs Trump that are 100% false and tremendously damaging to her personal and professional reputation," Mr Harder said in a statement.

查爾斯·哈德在一份聲明中說道：“這些被告人作出了好幾份關於梅拉尼亞的聲明，其內容是完全錯誤的。並且對她個人和職業聲譽造成了巨大的損害。”

Mrs Trump, 46, was born in Slovenia and moved to the US to work as a model in the 1990s. She married Mr Trump in 2005.

梅拉尼亞·特朗普今年46歲，出生於斯洛文尼亞，上世紀90年代移民到美國，從事模特工作。2005年她和特朗普結婚。

The article on the Daily Mail's website quoted claims published in Slovenian magazine Suzy that the modelling agency Mrs Trump was working for also functioned as an escort agency, court papers show.

據法庭的文件顯示，《每日郵報》網站上的文章引述了出版在斯洛文尼亞雜誌《Suzy》上的內容，稱模特中介人梅拉尼亞·特朗普同時也是一個皮條客。

The newspaper also quoted Slovenian journalist Bojan, author of an unauthorised biography, who claimed Mrs Trump had posed for nude photos in New York in 1995 and alleged that she had met Mr Trump that year, three years before their reported first meeting in 1998. Her lawyers say she moved to the US in 1996.

《每日郵報》還引述了斯洛文尼亞記者博揚（他是一本未經授權傳記的作者）的話，聲稱梅拉尼亞曾於1995年在紐約拍過裸照，並且斷言就是在那一年梅拉尼亞邂逅了特朗普，比兩人報道的於1998年才第一次相遇要早了3年。但是梅拉尼亞的律師稱她是在1996年才移居到的美國。

Mr Tarpley meanwhile alleged that Mrs Trump was "reportedly obsessed by fear of salacious revelations by wealthy clients from her time as a high-end escort" and had suffered a "full-blown nervous breakdown".

韋伯斯特·塔普利聲稱，梅拉尼亞·特朗普“無法擺脫她在當高級妓女時和有錢嫖客們結下的下流關係”，並且爲此“焦頭爛額、甚至崩潰”。

Both Mr Tarpley and the Daily Mail have since retracted their articles.

據悉，韋伯斯特·塔普利和《每日郵報》現在都已經撤銷了他們的文章。