President Donald Trump on Tuesday settled a $100 million lawsuit with his niece, which stemmed from allegations that she improperly leaked his tax records to the media.
Trump sued Mary Trump in 2021, accusing her of leaking information to the New York Times for its 2018 coverage and violating confidentiality provisions of a 2001 settlement over the estate of Fred Trump Sr., the president’s father. This week, the yearslong legal quarrel came to an end when both sides filed a letter with a New York state court in Manhattan, announcing a settlement.
“The parties are pleased to report they have reached a settlement and anticipate being able to stipulate to the dismissal of this action with prejudice in the ensuing weeks, following completion of certain conditions precedent,” the letter said.
Mary Trump has emerged as the Trump family’s leading critic of their relative, labeling her uncle as “utterly incapable of leading this country.”
Trump sued his niece amid concerns that she and the New York Times “engaged in an insidious plot to obtain confidential and highly sensitive records” about the president’s finances, leading him to suffer $100 million in damages. The 2018 article discussing his finances alleged the president “participated in dubious tax schemes … including instances of outright fraud.”
The president’s complaint claimed Mary Trump “smuggled” his tax records out of her attorney’s office after gaining access to them through the 2001 agreement involving the Fred Trump estate, allegedly violating a nondisclosure and confidentiality agreement in that estate settlement
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It also stated that Mary Trump revealed details about the disclosure in her 2020 book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man.
“I had to take Donald down,” she wrote in the book.