Major Book Publisher Apologizes to Melania Trump for ‘Unverified’ Epstein Claims

David Gilmour Oct 8th, 2025, 6:49 am

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HarperCollins UK issued a formal apology to First Lady Melania Trump on Tuesday and pulled copies of a book about Prince Andrew that repeated an unverified claim that Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump .

The apology, the third from a major media outlet in recent months, marks an increasingly aggressive push by Melania Trump’s legal team to stamp out any association between her and the disgraced financier.

The First Lady shared a statement from the publisher on X:

“We have, in consultation with the author, removed several passages of the book that referenced unverified claims about the First Lady of the United States, Melan

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