by Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book Substack
SDNY COURTHOUSE, Feb 9 – Journalist Michael Wolff filed a defamation lawsuit against Melania Trump in New York State court on October 21, 2025.
On December 29, Melania Trump through counsel filed a Notice of Removal to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, which Inner City Press closely covers and where it found it. The notice says that she is a resident of Florida and therefore diversity jurisdiction applies.
Her lawyers also wrote that "plaintiff falsely and maliciously asserted that Mrs. Trump was somehow 'involved' in the 'scandal' relating to Jeffrey Epstein [and] initiated this action in an improper effort to preempt a potential defamation lawsuit against him by Mrs. Trump."
On January 26 Melania Trump's lawyers moved to dismiss, or to transfer the case to the Southern District of Florida.
On February 9 Wolff's lawyer opposed - and filed Melania Trump's emails with Ghislaine Maxwell, and an FBI 203 about Paulo Zampolli, who Inner City Press reported on at the UN before being thrown out of the UN by Antonio Guterres, introducing the first couple, on Patreon here
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The SDNY case is Wolff v. Trump, 1:25-cv-10752 (Vyskocil)
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