Fox News ' Brooke Singman reported Wednesday that first lady Melania Trump has issued a $1 billion legal notice to Hunter Biden , alleging "false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements" from a video interview in which he claimed that sex offender Jeffrey Epstein "introduced Melania to [President Donald] Trump"—and that their "connections are, like, so wide and deep."

Newsweek reached out to Biden's lawyer for comment via email on Wednesday.

Why It Matters

The Trump administration has been roiled by renewed scrutiny of Epstein, the disgraced financier, since the Department of Justice (DOJ) announced last month that it would not release any additional information related to its investigation of his prison death in 2019, which was ruled a suicide.

The announcement

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