The publisher HarperCollins UK has said it removed “unverified” claims about First Lady Melania Trump from a recently published book and issued an apology.
“HarperCollins UK recently published a book by Andrew Lownie titled ‘Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York.’ We have, in consultation with the author, removed passages of the book that referenced unverified claims about the First Lady of the United States Melania Trump,” HarperCollins UK said in a statement posted on X on Tuesday.
“Copies of the book that include those references are being permanently removed from distribution. HarperCollins UK apologizes to the First Lady.”
Trump later shared the statement on her X account.
The book, about Britain’s Prince Andrew and his former wife Sarah Ferguson, features a chapter about the prince’s ties to the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The claim that Epstein had introduced President Donald Trump to his wife was published in about 60,000 copies of the book, The Telegraph newspaper reported in August. But it was edited to remove the claim after the first lady threatened to sue Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, for claiming in an interview that Epstein introduced her to her husband.
In her 2004 memoir, the first lady wrote that she met her husband at a party at the Kit Kat Club in New York City in 1998.
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