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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMelania Trumps lawyers admit she hoped to cash in on being First Lady by selling clothes/fragrances
Plaintiff had the unique, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as an extremely famous and well-known person to launch a broad-based commercial brand in multiple product categories, each of which could have garnered multi-million dollar business relationships for a multi-year term during which plaintiff is one of the most photographed women in the world, the lawsuit outlines.
These product categories would have included, among other things, apparel, accessories, shoes, jewelry, cosmetics, hair care, skin care and fragrance, it continues.
Mrs. Trump is alleging $150 million in damages in their filing to the Manhattan Supreme Court.
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/02/melania-trumps-lawyers-admit-she-hoped-to-cash-in-on-being-first-lady-by-selling-clothes-and-fragrances/
irisblue
(33,081 posts)Solly Mack
(90,819 posts)Phoenix61
(17,038 posts)Does she think she would be treated any different than Ivanka?
MrScorpio
(73,631 posts)There's tone deafness and then there's tonal catatonic schizophrenia.
TubbersUK
(1,439 posts)not the venality, but the brazen way they go about it, the total lack of embarrassment.
Cha
(298,334 posts)"According to a report from the New York Post, the court documents allege the Daily Mail caused such financial harm that Mrs. Trump could no longer use her position in government to enrich herself, her brand and products."
Unreal if that's true
Initech
(100,182 posts)NanceGreggs
(27,822 posts)... that's pretty thin soup.
Had Melania already been in negotiation with manufacturers and fragrance designers, and had reached agreements with distributors and stores to sell her merchandise, there might be an argument here - especially if said agreements were cancelled or withdrawn due to the "defamation" she allegedly suffered.
To say, "Well, I could have made money doing this" doesn't cut it. There is no proof that she ever had any intention of launching a line of merchandise, and certainly no way of calculating what income she would have derived from doing so - or, in the alternative, how much money she could have lost if such a venture failed.
Thin soup indeed.
avebury
(10,953 posts)As soon as she tried to "use her position in government to enrich herself" the pitchforks would come out and a demand to boycott her stuff even worse then what Ivanka has experienced.
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