| Melania Trump Moves to
Dismiss Wolff Defamation Case or
Transfer it to SDFL
by
Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Book
Substack
SDNY
COURTHOUSE,
Jan 26 – 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.
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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