First Lady Melania Trump threatened to sue Hunter Biden, the son of former President Joe Biden, for "over $1 billion" for suggesting that she may have been introduced to her husband through late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump's attorney, Alejandro Brito, wrote an August 6 letter to Biden and his lawyer, Abbe Lowell, demanding that he "immediately retract the false, defamatory, disparaging, and inflammatory statements" made during his Channel 5 with Andrew Callaghan interview earlier this month.
“Failure to comply will leave Mrs. Trump with no choice but to pursue any and all legal rights and remedies available to her to recover the overwhelming financial and reputational harm that you have caused her to suffer,” Brito wrote in the letter obtained by FOX News.
Biden acknowledged President Trump's past ties to Epstein during the YouTube interview.
“The connections are, like, so wide and deep,” he said.
Brito referred to Biden as a "serial fabulist" in the letter.
“Given your vast history of trading on the names of others – including your surname – for your personal benefit, it is obvious that you published these false and defamatory statements about Mrs. Trump to draw attention to yourself,” Brito said.
The attorney also demanded that Biden “immediately issue a full and fair retraction of the Video” and “immediately issue an apology for the false, defamatory, disparaging, misleading, and inflammatory statements.”
“If you do not comply with the above by August 7, 2025, at 5:00 p.m. EST, Mrs. Trump will be left with no alternative but to enforce her legal and equitable rights, all of which are expressly reserved and are not waived, including by filing legal action for over $1 Billion Dollars in damages,” he added. “You are on notice.”
Last month, the Daily Beast took down its story alleging that Melania Trump had ties to Jeffrey Epstein and issued an apology for suggesting such after being contacted by the first lady's attorneys. Democratic strategist James Carville was also forced to issue a public apology and scrub an episode of his Politics War Room podcast after suggesting she had an "Epstein connection."
“We took a look at what they complained about, and we took down the video and edited out those comments from the episode,” Carville said at the beginning of the following episode. “I also take back these statements and apologize.”
Melania Trump said she met her husband at a September 1998 Fashion Week party at the Kit Kat Klub in New York City in her self-titled memoir published last year.