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Daily Mail, a UK newspaper, has agreed to pay damages to US first lady Melania Trump for publishing a report alleging that she once worked as an escort.

Trump had filed a lawsuit gainst Daily Mail in the United Kingdom, and its digital operation, Mail Online, in the United States.

Although the lawsuit sought $150m (£120m) in damages, the amount awarded to the US first lady by London’s high court was not disclosed.

The allegations were published during the US election campaign last year but the newspaper later retracted the claims.

Trump has accepted the damages as well as a public apology from the newspaper.

In the apology to Trump, the newspaper acknowledged that it published allegations that she provided services beyond modelling.

The article also claimed that Melania and husband, Donald Trump, may have met three years before they actually did, and later staged their first meeting.

“We accept that these allegations about Mrs Trump are not true,” the newspaper said.

Melania Trump was signed to a modelling agency in her late teens. The contract took her around Europe and the US, appearing in high-profile ad campaigns.