HarperCollins UK apologizes to Melania Trump, removes claims about her from book following legal threat

HarperCollins UK issued an apology to First Lady Melania Trump after it published unverified suggests about her in a book HarperCollins UK just now published a book by Andrew Lownie titled Entitled The Rise and Fall of the House of York We have in consultation with the author removed passages of the book that referenced unverified insists about the First Lady of the United States Melania Trump HarperCollins UK wrote in a declaration Tuesday Copies of the book that include those references are being permanently removed from distribution HarperCollins UK apologizes to the First Lady the report added Melania Trump shared the report which was first posted on HarperCollins UK's X account to her nearly million X followers FIRST LADY MELANIA TRUMP PUTS HUNTER BIDEN ON B NOTICE OVER 'FALSE DEFAMATORY' EPSTEIN COMMENTSThe book which focuses on Prince Andrew examines the disgraced royal's ties to the late financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein Lownie alleged that Epstein introduced Donald Trump to Melania Representatives for the first lady rejected the claim pointing to her own book which states she met her husband at New York City's Kit Kat Club in and was not introduced to him by Epstein Melania Trump's unit has taken swift action towards those who've promoted the false claim Back in July The Daily Beast retracted an article it had published based on comments made by Michael Wolff who echoed the fabricated Epstein connection The outlet later issued an apology DAILY BEAST APOLOGIZES TO MELANIA TRUMP OVER RETRACTED EPSTEIN CLAIMS ARTICLE The Daily Beast in recent days published a story headlined Melania Trump Very Involved in Epstein Shame Author based on an interview with Michael Wolff Upon reflection we have determined that the article did not meet our standards and has therefore been removed from our platforms The Daily Beast reported in a message last month In response to a letter from the first lady s attorneys The Daily Beast has also removed a portion of an episode of The Daily Beast Podcast titled Trump s Epstein Disgrace Can t Stop Won t Stop referencing the first lady the announcement continued The first lady points to her bestselling book Melania as the definitive account of her life story We apologize to the first lady and our readers Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville repeated the claim on his own podcast and similarly issued a retraction and an apology In last week's podcast episode we spoke with Judd Legum Carville disclosed After the episode we received a letter from Melania Trump's lawyer He took issue with our title of one of those YouTube videos from that episode and a couple of comments I made about the First Lady We took a look at what they complained about and we took down the video and edited out those comments from the episode I also take back these statements and apologize Attorneys for Melania Trump also sent a billion legal threat against Hunter Biden after he made the claim as a guest on Channel with Andrew Callaghan Biden dismissed the threat and refused to apologize CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST MEDIA AND LIFESTYLE NEWS CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP