Melania Trump: Did Melania Trump ask $250,000 for an interview with CNN? Here is what we all know

CNN Thursday got here up with a report claiming that they reached out to Melania Trump‘s e-book writer for an interview with the previous first woman forward of the discharge of her memoir however the writer despatched an uncommon demand of $250,000. Melania has remained elusive this election season, apparently busy together with her e-book although she appeared on a Fox interview and spoke on quite a lot of points.
The CNN report stated other than the $250,000 which was termed as a licensing really feel, the Skyhorse Publishing despatched a doc to CNN labeling “confidentiality and nondisclosure settlement” that laid out strict phrases for an interview and use of fabric from the e-book.
CNN didn’t signal the settlement, the report stated.
A CNN journalist reached out to the publishing home asking in regards to the payment and the NDA to which the writer stated it was a mistake.
“Neither Melania nor anybody from her workforce knew something in regards to the NDA and the doc that was despatched mirrored an inside miscommunication,” Tony Lyons, the president and writer of Skyhorse, informed CNN in an announcement. “Had CNN signed an NDA, within the regular course of enterprise, we’d have approached Melania’s workforce to debate [specifics of the interview],” Lyons stated.
The report stated Melania Trump’s spokesperson declined remark.
The report added that although the writer known as the cost an inside error, Melania was reportedly paid $237500 for an April even of the Republican celebration for a talking engagement.
“Information present Melania Trump was additionally paid $250,000 for a Log Cabin Republican occasion in December 2022, one in every of three funds for $250,000 or extra that she acquired for talking that month, simply after the previous president introduced he was operating for reelection, in accordance with Donald Trump’s prior yr monetary disclosure type,” the CNN report stated.
What was the NDA?
The NDA was to make sure that “the unpublished manuscript of the Work, notes, letters, photographs, or verbal data of any form and any data obtained from any third celebration that Writer or Creator treats as proprietary and designates as Confidential Materials.”
Any CNN worker who would work on the interview would wish to signal the NDA, the contract states, and every breach of the NDA would entitle Trump and/or her writer “liquidated damages” of $100,000, in accordance with the doc.
The NDA has signature traces for CNN, Lyons, president of Skyhorse Publishing, which is distributed by Simon & Schuster, and the previous first woman’s agent Marc Beckman.