Melania Trump sues website, blogger for 'their many lies'

VARIETY REPORTS that

Melania Trump

, wife of you-know-who, filed a libel lawsuit Thursday against the

parent company of the Daily Mail and Maryland blogger/author/activist historian Webster Tarpley.

Melania's mouthpiece, attorney Charles Harder, who recently handled Hulk Hogan's big court win against Gawker Media, said in a statement that the defendants "made several statements about Mrs. Trump that are 100 percent false and tremendously damaging to her personal and professional reputation."

That'll be fun to prove.

Harder went on: "Their many lies include, among others, that Mrs. Trump supposedly was an 'escort' in the 1990s before she met her husband. Defendants' actions are so egregious, malicious, and harmful to Mrs. Trump that her damages are estimated at $150 million."

Tarpley, a Princeton alum who writes frequently on politics and has penned such books as Just Too Weird, about Mitt Romney, and Surviving the Cataclysm, about not going broke when everyone else does, was cited for his Aug. 2 blog post commenting on Melania's alleged reaction to her plagiarism incident at the GOP convention.

Tarpley used the words "apoplectic fit," which Harder objected to. Tarpley also mentioned that Melania feared revelations about her time as a "high end escort." Harder claims she didn't.

The suit says that Melania "did legitimate and legal modeling work for legitimate business entities. Plaintiff was not an escort or a prostitute."

The suit claims that Tarpley "acted with actual malice" by posting his post, which he later removed and apologized for.

The Aug. 19 story at the Daily Mail website ran with the headline, "Naked photoshoots, and troubling questions about visas that won't go away: The VERY racy past of Donald Trump's Slovenian wife."

The story there cited a book claiming that Melania's modeling agency functioned more like a "gentleman's club."

The suit says that the Daily Mail "acted with actual malice."

The article was removed from dailymail.co.uk, but the site has not issued a retraction or apology.

Tattle has spent many hours listening to

Little Steven Van Zandt

's "Underground Garage" on road trip radio.

Aside from being an actor and rocker, he's also an excellent radio programmer.

Now this renaissance man is adding another talent to his list: Tweeter.

On Wednesday, Sept. 7 and Friday, Sept. 9 (before he joins Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band on stage at Citizens Bank Park) WMGK is going to let Little Steven take over the station's Twitter account (twitter.com/wmgk) from 2 p.m. to 2:20 p.m. each day.

Want to ask a question? Use #askLITTLESTEVEN.

Or send your questions in early to beat the rush.

"Little Steven's Underground Garage" airs Sunday nights at 10 on WMGK.

* In semi-related news, Foxborough, Mass., has decided to extend its concert curfew by 15 minutes, just for the Boss.

The Sun Chronicle reports that the Foxborough board of selectmen voted to extend the concert curfew for the rocker's Sept. 14 show at Gillette Stadium to 11:30 p.m. The typical curfew for weeknight concerts is 11:15 p.m.

The stadium's director of external affairs says Springsteen has played Gillette twice before with no issues, and he's been playing 3 1/2- to four-hour sets on his latest tour. Foxborough is his last stop.

Not everyone agrees with the move. Board member Ginny Coppola opposed extending curfew.

Look, Ginny, if a 66-year-old man can rock a stadium for four hours, Foxborough is just going to have to deal with it.

* The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences has announced the winners of the awards they no longer show live on Oscars night.

The 2016 Governors Awards recipients will be global chopsocky superstar Jackie Chan, film editor Anne V. Coates, casting director Lynn Stalmaster and documentary filmmaker Frederick Wiseman, whose High School was shot at Northeast High in 1968.

The winners will be presented with their honorary Academy Awards on Saturday, Nov. 12 in Hollywood.

* Beach Boys singer Mike Love has detailed the band's brief late 1960s relationship with cult leader Charles Manson in a new memoir.

People magazine reports Love writes that Manson and his followers moved in with bandmate Dennis Wilson in 1968, a little more than a year before Manson's cult killed seven people, including actress Sharon Tate.

Love recalls being at the house with Beach Boy Bruce Johnston, when Manson handed out LSD and was "orchestrating sex partners" for some of his female followers. Love says he tried to bow out of the situation and went to take a shower, but was confronted by Manson, who Love says told him, "You can't leave the group."

Love's memoir, Good Vibrations, is set for release this month.

* Entertainment Weekly reports that Mel Gibson is working on a sequel to Passion of the Christ.

The film would focus on the resurrection.

Of Jesus or Mel's career?

- Daily News wire services

contributed to this report.

gensleh@phillynews.com @DNTattle