Correcting Another Melania Trump-Daily Mail Detail
Newspaper retracts 2016 article and agrees to pay damages, legal costs
In a now-retracted Aug. 20, 2016 Daily Mail article about Melania Trump, reporter Natalie Clarke wrote at one point that, ‘The first [magazine] cover Melania did was for the April 1996 edition of Spanish Harper’s Bazaar.’ That tidbit, a minor detail alongside much larger contentious claims about Trump’s early days as a model that were legally settled today in London, is incorrect.
A few weeks after the Daily Mail article, Univision published their own investigation of Melania’s early career, noting that the cover was in fact from the following summer, for the August 1997 issue of Harper’s Bazaar en Español.
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