Prince Andrew Guide Removes Declare About Melania Trump and Jeffrey Epstein After First Woman Threatened $1B Lawsuit to Hunter Biden

A brand new e-book about Prince Andrew has eliminated the declare that Jeffrey Epstein launched President Donald Trump to his spouse, first girl Melania Trump.

The primary 60,000 copies of Andrew Lownie’s Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York, launched on Aug. 14, embrace the allegation.

Throughout Hunter Biden‘s Aug. 5 interview with Andrew Callaghan on YouTube, Biden repeats biographer Michael Wolff’s declare that Jeffrey Epstein was the one who initially launched the president to his third spouse.

Entitled included an identical declare. Now, future print editions of Lownie’s e-book, the e-book and the audiobook mirror the change.

A HarperCollins UK spokesman advised The Telegraph that the passages that debate the declare have been eliminated after conversations with the writer and Lownie, 64. The writer’s consultant confirmed that though the e-book is printed within the U.Okay. by HarperCollins, it’s self-published within the U.S.

PEOPLE reached out to HarperCollins UK for remark.

Lownie and HarperCollins’ choice follows studies that Melania’s lawyer, Alejandro Brito, despatched a letter to Biden on Aug. 6, demanding a full retraction of an interview. The primary girl, 55, and Brito demanded that Biden, 55, “instantly retract the false, defamatory, disparaging and inflammatory statements made about Mrs. Trump.” 

“Certainly, the video has since been re-published by numerous media shops, journalists, and political commentators with hundreds of thousands of social media followers which have disseminated the false and defamatory statements therein to tens of hundreds of thousands of individuals worldwide,” Brito continued.

If Biden didn’t comply, Melania deliberate to sue Biden for $1 billion to “recuperate the overwhelming monetary and reputational hurt that you’ve got brought about her to endure,” Brito wrote. They gave Biden till Aug. 7 to adjust to their calls for of each a retraction of the video and an apology. 

Shortly after, the president, 79, advised Fox Information’ Brian Kilmeade on Aug. 12 that he was the one who inspired Melania to “go ahead with it.”

“I advised her, ‘Let’s go forward and do it,’ ” Donald stated, including, “I let her use my legal professionals.” 

“Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with Melania and introducing,” the president stated. “It was one other particular person really… however it wasn’t Jeffrey Epstein.”

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Days later, on Aug. 14, Biden returned to Callaghan’s present and stated, “F— that. That is not gonna occur.”

Biden then once more cited Wolff, who allegedly made the identical declare. In July, Wolff was cited by the Day by day Beast in a narrative titled “Melania Trump ‘very concerned’ in Epstein Scandal: Creator.” Wolff allegedly made claims just like Biden’s. However after being threatened with authorized repercussions, the outlet deleted the story in its entirety.

Political analyst James Carville additionally just lately issued an apology to the primary girl after making similar claims on his Aug. 7 podcast and promptly listening to from Melania’s legal professionals.

The Trump administration is dealing with strain to launch information associated to Epstein, to whom the president has been publicly linked. Donald was associates with the disgraced financier and pedophile for a few years, however the two had a falling out within the mid-2000s, Donald advised reporters shortly earlier than Epstein died by suicide in 2019.

His identify was talked about in flight logs launched earlier this yr by Lawyer Normal Pam Bondi a complete of seven occasions. Regardless of his identify showing within the flight logs, it doesn’t essentially point out wrongdoing, as most of the people named might have been on Epstein’s aircraft for official causes.

In early July, the FBI and Division of Justice released a joint memo saying their investigation into Epstein’s alleged crimes and subsequent dying was full. The memo additionally said the investigation discovered that Epstein’s long-rumored “consumer checklist” didn’t exist.