A New York judge has dismissed Mary Trump’s lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, saying her claims are barred by a previous settlement reached more than 20 years ago.
Mary Trump, the former president’s niece, had alleged in the lawsuit that she was defrauded out of millions of dollars in a 2001 family settlement.
In 2020, Mary Trump sued Donald Trump. his sister Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired judge; and the executor of her late uncle Robert Trump’s estate, alleging that they “conceived and executed an elaborate scheme to siphon funds from her interests, conceal their grief, and deceive her as to the true value of what she had inherited.”
Mary Trump claimed that the full nature of the alleged fraud only came to light after the New York Times in 2018 published an article titled “Trump Engaged in Suspicious Tax Scheme as He Reaped Wealth from His Father,” which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Expository Reference. . Mary Trump provided reporters with 19 boxes of files she obtained through the 2001 settlement.
During a hearing in January, lawyers for both Mary Trump and Donald Trump argued over whether her lawsuit could go forward.
The dismissal of the lawsuit is the second legal victory for the former president this week, after a federal judge dismissed a retaliation lawsuit by Michael Cohen on Monday. Cohen, a former personal lawyer for Donald Trump, had alleged that Donald Trump, former Attorney General William Barr and others put him back in jail to prevent him from promoting his upcoming book while under house arrest.
