AS DONALD Trump prepares for his inauguration as the 45th President of the USA, he has been hit with a lawsuit alleging that he defamed a woman who claimed he had sexually harassed her.

The bookmakers have also opened a market on Trump being impeached in the first six months of office – and they are only offering 4-1 on that eventuality.

America’s press corps have also vowed to fight any bullying or intimidation by him, but the fact that may well annoy Trump more than any other is that Madam Tussauds had to resort to special material to recreate his famous hairstyle – the hair of a yak.

Himalayan cattle hair aside, the wax effigy unveiled in London yesterday also has a feature not often seen on Trump as its mouth is shut.

Starting his final day as President-elect, Trump’s advisers will today be most concerned about the lawsuit instigated in New York by a former contestant on Trump’s television show The Apprentice.

Summer Zervos filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump via her lawyer Gloria Allred, who is representing several women who have made similar claims.

Speaking in Los Angeles late on Tuesday, Allred said she had filed the lawsuit over allegedly false statements Trump made in response to Zervos’ accusation that in 2007 at the Beverly Hills Hotel, theproperty magnate made unwanted sexual advances toward her on multiple occasions during a meeting, kissing her on the lips, pressing himself against her and groping her breast and body without her consent.

According to the lawsuit, Trump said Zervos and his other accusers were liars, and that she and the other women were motivated to come forward by the promise of “10 minutes of fame”.

The lawsuit adds: “In doing so, he used his national and international bully pulpit to make false factual statements to denigrate and verbally attack Ms Zervos and the other women who publicly reported his sexual assaults in October 2016.”

A spokeswoman for Trump told NBC News: “More of the same from Gloria Allred. There is no truth to this absurd story.”

Allred later said: “Ms Zervos is willing to dismiss her lawsuit if he will retract his false statements about her and acknowledge that what Summer said about Mr Trump and his alleged conduct is and was the truth.”

Meanwhile, popular Irish bookmaker and betting website Paddy Power is quoting odds of 4-1 about Trump being impeached within the first six months of his presidency. Paddy Power is also pretty sure that Trump will not finish his first four-year term, as it is quoting odds of just 7-4 against him completing four years in the White House.

It could be just wishful thinking on Paddy Power’s part, as the bookmaker admitted losing more than £3 million when Trump won the election – not least because it had already paid out on a Clinton victory.

Paddy Power is also offering odds of 25-1 that Trump’s first state visit will be to Scotland, with Russia the 11-10 favourite.

In another development, prominent journalists have written to Trump to warn him that they will not be intimidated from reporting news and events after Trump insulted a reporter at his press conference earlier this week.

Kyle Pope, editor of the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review, organised the open letter signed “The Press Corps” which stated: “We now recognise that the challenge of covering you requires that we cooperate and help one another whenever possible. So, when you shout down or ignore a reporter at a press conference who has said something you don’t like, you’re going to face a unified front.

“We’ll work together on stories when it makes sense, and make sure the world hears when our colleagues write stories of importance.”

Referring to Trump’s threat to ban publications and journalists, the letter added: “Telling reporters that they won’t get access to something isn’t what we’d prefer, but it’s a challenge we relish.”