Author Michael Wolff sues Melania Trump over her effort to block his latest Trump tell-all book

Michael Wolff is suing First Lady Melania Trump for her effort to stop the publication of his latest planned book which may include allegations about ties she may have had to the disgraced, late pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, according to the New York Daily News. 

Wolff has written four bestselling, controversial books about President Donald Trump. 

Wolff claims that Melania Trump launched a campaign of threats to intimidate him and keep him from delving into the friendship between the Trumps and Epstein. 

“These threatened legal actions are designed to create a climate of fear in the nation so that people cannot freely or confidently exercise their First Amendment rights,” Wolff’s 17-page lawsuit states. “The threats are also intended to shut down legitimate inquiry into the Epstein matter.”

Wolff claims in his lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in Manhattan Supreme Court, that the first lady threatened to sue him for $1 billion if he went forward with the book, titled “The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump (Redux).”

In the book, Wolff claims to have hours of interviews he did with Epstein, and he says that Epstein claimed that the Trumps first had sex together while flying on his private jet. He also claims that the Trump marriage is a “sham.”

Wolff made public some claims from the book in a Daily Beast podcast in July. But the news site later retracted and apologized to Melania Trump for the story they published based on Wolff’s salacious claims.  

Wolff has been called out before over his use of anonymous sources, such as following the publication of his 2019 book, “Siege: Trump Under Fire,” in which he claimed that Special Counsel Robert Mueller had drafted an obstruction of justice indictment against Trump, but had decided not to go forward with it, according to CNN.  

Mueller’s office responded to Wolff’s accusation, saying that “The documents that you’ve described do not exist.” Wolff stood by his claim.