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Lawyers for US First Lady Melania Trump have sent Hunter Biden, the former president's son, a formal request to retract "defamatory" allegations linking the president's wife to convicted child sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, Fox News reported, citing sources.
In early August, Biden Jr. released a video in which he claimed that Epstein introduced Melania to Donald Trump. The Trumps have repeatedly claimed that the couple was introduced by modeling agent Paolo Zampolli at a New York Fashion Week party in 1998.
The document states that if Mr. Biden does not retract his statements, Melania will demand damages in the amount of more than $1 billion. The ultimatum, as reported by Fox News, expired on August 7.
Failure to comply will result in the First Lady using "the remedies available to her to recover the enormous financial and reputational damage she has suffered."
Epstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to organizing prostitution and was convicted of raping a minor, was arrested again in the US in the summer of 2019 and charged with trafficking minors and soliciting them for prostitution. A few weeks later, the billionaire was found dead in his prison cell before his trial.
