Melania Trump Sued by Author Michael Wolff Over Alleged Effort to Block Tell-All Book

Former First Lady Melania Trump is facing a new legal battle this time with journalist and author Michael Wolff, who has filed a lawsuit accusing her of trying to block the release of his upcoming book about her life.

According to court filings obtained by TMZ, Wolff claims Melania “deliberately and maliciously interfered” with his publishing contract and defamed him through public statements surrounding his forthcoming title, The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump (Redux).

Wolff alleges that Melania and her team spread false claims accusing him of fabricating interviews, intimidating sources, and “manufacturing lies for profit.” He says those accusations scared off international distributors and cost him a multi-million-dollar publishing deal.

The lawsuit further claims Melania personally directed a PR firm to contact media outlets and threaten legal action if they promoted or covered the book describing the effort as a “calculated campaign to destroy his reputation and livelihood.”

As evidence, Wolff included a letter from Melania’s attorneys demanding he retract and apologize for remarks he made to The Daily Beast linking her to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. In that interview, Wolff claimed Melania was “very involved” in the Epstein scandal and suggested she could be a key connection between Epstein and Donald Trump allegations her lawyers have called “false and defamatory.”

Wolff is asking the court to declare that his book’s contents are not defamatory and to rule that if Melania Trump continues efforts to obstruct or intimidate him, she will be liable for damages.