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There’s been a lot of controversy surrounding Andrew Lownie’s book, Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York. It’s a book about Prince Andrew, but there’s one particular story that is causing more heat than any other — and it’s not about the royal.
The book, which was released Aug. 14, included an allegation that Jeffrey Epstein was the person who introduced Donald Trump to his now-wife, Melania Trump. There are currently 60,000 copies in circulation that contain the story, but future copies will not include those details, per People. EBooks and audiobooks have already been updated with the changes, per The Telegraph.
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“We can confirm that several passages from Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York by Andrew Lownie have been removed in consultation with the author,” a spokesperson for HarperCollins UK told the media outlet. “Entitled is published in the UK by HarperCollins. In the US, the book is self-published by Mr. Lownie.”
The controversy didn’t start with Lownie, though; it actually started with a now-retracted Daily Beast Podcast interview with Michael Wolff, a biographer who wrote the critical book, Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, about the president’s first administration. He was the one who first claimed Melania was “very involved” with Epstein’s inner circle, which is how she met her now-husband.
Hunter Biden then repeated those claims in a July interview with YouTube host Andrew Callaghan and the fight only became more complicated. Donald Trump has since refuted the allegations and told Fox News Radio last week, via The Telegraph, “Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with Melania and introducing. It was another person, actually… but it wasn’t Jeffrey Epstein.”
Melania has since threatened Biden with a $1 billion lawsuit, citing that his comments were “false, disparaging, defamatory” and “extremely salacious,” per The Hill. So, Lownie’s Prince Andrew book, which told a similar tale about how Donald and Melania Trump allegedly met, is hoping to avoid any threat of lawsuits.
The couple’s beginnings have several different tales, as told by the first lady. In September 2024, she sat down with Fox News to discuss their rather formal first date. He took her on a business visit to Bedford, New Jersey, where he wanted to buy property.
“And it was very nice, because we were two of us alone in the car for hour, hour and a half, and it’s no other noise, no other people, because at that time, he was already known and a celebrity,” she said. “So, it was really nice to be just two of us.”
In 2016, she shared a very different tale to Harper’s Bazaar about a trendy night on the town at a celerity hotspot at the time. “Remember Moomba?” she asked the reporter. “It was a great place, wasn’t it? I remember that night like it was two months ago.”
It sounds like Melania and Donald Trump’s origin story is a bit of a mystery.
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