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In a political spat leading up to the Utah state primary election in March 2016, Republican candidate Donald Trump took exception to the appearance of a negative campaign ad featuring his wife, Melania, that used a nude photograph of her taken during a January 2000 photo shoot for the British version of GQ magazine: Trump blamed rival GOP hopeful Ted Cruz for the ad (which was actually created by the anti-Trump super PAC Make America Awesome, not the Cruz campaign) and responded by threatening via Twitter to spill the beans on Cruz's wife, Heidi: On 23 March 2016, the web site Nevada County Scooper published an article reporting that Donald Trump had followed through on his threat and claimed that Heidi Cruz was a former call girl: There was no truth to this report, however: Whatever beans Donald Trump may possess remain unspilled, as he has revealed no dark secrets about Heidi Cruz in a Skype interview (or anywhere else). This article was a fabrication of the Nevada County Scooper, whose disclaimer notes that it is a fake news web site that does not publish factual stories: In the end, Trump retweeted a follower who had posted a unflattering picture of Heidi Cruz alongside a glamor shot of Melania Trump, adding that there was no need to 'spill the beans'; the images are worth a thousand words:
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