First lady Melania Trump isn’t mincing words, or numbers. She’s threatening to take Hunter Biden to court for a jaw-dropping $1 billion after he repeated a claim, originally pushed by controversial author Michael Wolff and later retracted by The Daily Beast, falsely alleging she was introduced to Donald Trump by Jeffrey Epstein.
Demanding a full retraction
In an August 6 letter obtained by Fox News, Melania’s attorney Alejandro Brito accused Biden of making “false, defamatory, and lewd” remarks during an August 5 appearance on Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan.
The 55-year-old son of former President Joe Biden claimed, citing controversial author Michael Wolff’s already-retracted allegation that Epstein and Trump were connected through a “model agent” — a baseless story her legal team has condemned as entirely false and defamatory.
“Given your vast history of trading on the names of others… it is obvious that you published these false and defamatory statements about Mrs. Trump to draw attention to yourself,” Brito’s August 6 letter gave Biden until August 7 to retract and apologize.
Six days past the deadline — and counting
As of Wednesday night, the episode in question was still available on YouTube. Brito’s letter warned that failure to comply would leave Melania with “no alternative but to enforce her legal and equitable rights… including by filing legal action for over $1 billion in damages.”
Melania’s East Wing spokesperson Nick Clemens confirmed her legal team is ensuring immediate retractions and apologies from anyone who spread what they call “malicious, defamatory falsehoods.”
“The true account of how the First Lady met President Trump is in her best-selling book, ‘Melania,’” Clemens added.
A history of fighting back
This isn’t the first time the first lady has taken swift legal action over public remarks. Just last week, longtime Democratic strategist James Carville was forced to publicly apologize and remove false, disputed comments about Melania from his podcast—a decisive legal win for the first lady.
While old photographs do show Melania alongside her husband, Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell at public events, her attorneys stress that any link between Epstein and her introduction to Trump is entirely false.
And this time, they say, the stakes aren’t just reputational, they’re financial. With the threat of a billion-dollar lawsuit looming, the first lady’s message to Biden is crystal clear: You are on notice.
