| Melania Trump Moved to
Dismiss Wolff Case He Cites
Florida 770 Notices Sent to Him in
NY
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Feb 28 – 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
On February 17
Melania Trump's lawyers
replied, leading with the
argument that there was be
effective service of process.
Full memo of law on Patreon here
On February 24,
Wolff argued "If specific
personal jurisdiction over
Trump has not been
established, Wolff has made a
sufficient showing of
302(a)(3) New York contacts to
warrant a fair opportunity for
discovery on that issue. See
Cross-Motion, ¶6 and ¶7 (ECF
13). Wolff has shown that the
770.01 Notice– a notice that
had legal consequences for
Wolff in New York –
establishes 302(a)(3)
jurisdiction over Trump in New
York" - 14 page filing on
Patreon here
More on X for
Subscribers here
and Substack here
The SDNY case is
Wolff v. Trump, 1:25-cv-10752
(Vyskocil)
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