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Former First Lady Melania Trump recalls her first encounter with now-husband Donald Trump in her recent memoir, Melania, which hit the shelves on October 8. According to Melania, she first met Donald at a Fashion Week party in 1998, where she was attending with a friend. At the time, Donald was accompanied by another “attractive blonde” woman. “I saw my friend wave at someone behind me. When I turned around, I noticed a man and an attractive blonde woman approaching us,” she wrote. When Donald approached her table, Melania recalled how he introduced himself, saying, “‘Hi. I’m Donald Trump,’” to...

Donald Trump visited Jeffrey Epstein regularly at his Palm Beach mansion, Epstein's housekeeper testified - but never had massages or stayed the night, and always ate his meals with the staff in the kitchen. Juan Alessi's 2009 deposition was made public on Friday as part of the third tranche of documents released by a Manhattan judge. The documents formed part of a 2015 defamation case filed by one of Epstein's victims, Virginia Roberts-Giuffre, against Epstein's right-hand woman, Ghislaine Maxwell. Alessi, who worked for Epstein from around 1990 until 2002, was asked whether Trump - whose Mar-a-Lago home is less than...