Melania Trump, the wife of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump, demanded Thursday that People magazine retract a portion of an article that alleged he made an unwanted advance on the author while she visited the Trumps' Mar-a-Lago estate to write about the couple's first wedding anniversary.
But the letter does not mention the most provocative parts of the article _ that as Melania Trump, then pregnant, went upstairs to change, Donald Trump guided writer Natasha Stoynoff into a room, closed the door behind them, pushed her against a wall and shoved his tongue down her throat.
Stoynoff, in an article published on People's website Wednesday night, wrote that she tried to "unpin" herself, but that Donald Trump only stopped when a butler interrupted them to say that his wife was returning.
Melania Trump is demanding a retraction and apology about a portion of the article where Stoynoff recounts running into the former super model months later in front of Trump Tower in New York City. Stoynoff wrote that Melania Trump asked why the couple no longer saw the author and gave her a hug. By then, Melania Trump had given birth to a boy, Barron, and Stoynoff wrote that she affectionately squeezed the boy's foot.
Trump's attorney says all of this is false.
"The true facts are these: Mrs. Trump did not encounter Ms. Stoynoff on the street, nor have any conversation with her. The two are not friends and were never friends or even friendly. At the time in question, Mrs. Trump would not have even recognized Ms. Stoynoff if they had encountered one another on the street," wrote attorney Charles J. Harder.
The letter says if People magazine does not make a retraction and apology within 24 hours, Trump would consider legal action against the magazine.
An attempt to reach a representative of People was unsuccessful Thursday evening.
The retraction demand comes as Donald Trump battles allegations from multiple women that he touched their bodies and kissed them against their will. The women, including Stoynoff, said they decided to speak out about their years-old experiences because the GOP presidential nominee dismissed a recording of him speaking crassly about women as "locker room talk."
Trump has responded by dismissing all the allegations as false concoctions and threatening to sue The New York Times.
He also spoke out against Stoynoff on the campaign trail on Thursday, saying that the writer wrote a beautiful "love story" about the couple and questioned why she did not include the groping allegation in her piece, which he said would have made it "one of the biggest stories of the year."
Trump, speaking to supporters in West Palm Beach, Fla., then alluded to the writer's looks.
"Take a look at her. Take a look at her words. You tell me what you think," Trump said. "I don't think so."
