Gawker threatened with lawsuit over story on Donald Trump's hair

Donald Trump's hair.
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Gawker Media is being threatened with yet another lawsuit, this time over a story about Donald Trump and his (alleged) thousand-dollar hair plugs.

For the article, published in May, Gawker's Ashley Feinberg investigated whether Trump's hair is actually a "$60,000 weave," based on information from an anonymous tipster. The source told Gawker that Trump sought a hair restoration treatment called a "microcylinder intervention," performed by Ivari International, a company with a New York office conveniently located inside Trump Tower.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.