Melania Trump, the ex-model and third wife of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, denied reports Thursday that questioned whether she had worked illegally as an immigrant.

It is the third controversy about her in less than three weeks that the potential first lady or the Trump campaign has been forced to address as her husband inflames the political establishment with his divisive campaign for the White House.

"There has been a lot of inaccurate reporting and misinformation concerning my immigration status back in 1996," Melania Trump said in a statement Thursday.

"Any allegation to the contrary is simply untrue," said Melania Trump, who became a US citizen in 2006 - a year after she married the New York billionaire.

On July 18 she delivered a speech at the Republican National Convention that plagiarized a speech by First Lady Michelle Obama - a scandal initially dismissed as "Absurd" by the Trump campaign, but which they later admitted.

In recent interviews, Melania Trump herself did not claim that she had a degree, only that she had "Studied" design and architecture before dropping out to pursue a modeling career in Milan and later Paris.

After the New York Post published the racy pictures this week, the Trump campaign said the images were "Nothing to be embarrassed about" and "a celebration of the human body as art."

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