The U.K. tabloid Daily Mail settled a defamation case after spreading the rumor in 2016.

In summer 2025, posts on social media sites such as X and Facebook shared a copypasta (text repeatedly copied and shared verbatim online) claiming that Melania Trump, the U.S. first lady, worked as an escort before she met her now-husband, President Donald Trump. The copypasta also claimed that Melania Trump met Donald Trump at a party hosted by the former socialite Ghislaine Maxwell, who was convicted of child sex trafficking in 2021 due to her connections with the disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. 

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