Melania Trump’s lawyers have threatened to sue a Croatian language school who advertised english classes on the a billboard with the First Lady’s picture and the words: ‘just imagine how far you can go with a little bit of English.’
The ad used a picture of Donald Trump’s wife giving her now-famous speech at the Republican Convention where she plagiarized the words of Michelle Obama, alongside the cutting words and details of the language school.
The billboard.
Unsurprisingly Melania wasn’t too pleased about the billboards appearing all across the Croatian capital of Zagreb. So much so that the language school has been forced to remove the ads.
‘I’m satisfied with the fact that the school admitted that they violated the law and that they are ready to remove the billboards and (Facebook) ads,’ Melania’s lawyer Natasa Pirc-Musar said in a statement. The First Lady has reportedly hired a law firm specifically to deal with cases of her image being used to sell products – especially in her home country of Slovenia.
A spokeswoman for the American Institue was quick to apologize for the mistake. ‘We are very sorry that the billboards were misunderstood as something intended to mock the US first lady. It was meant to be something positive, to show her as a role model,’ she said.
Melania was born in Novo Mesto in the southeast of Slovenia in 1970 and immigrated to the US in 1996 to pursue a career in modelling. Alongside her native Slovenian she speaks four languages fluently: English, French, Serbian and German.
This story was originally published on Grazia
