{"id":2384,"date":"2026-06-20T06:36:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2026-06-20T06:36:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T06:36:26","slug":"trump-settles-100-million-lawsuit-against-niece-over-financial-leaks-to-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=2384","title":{"rendered":"Trump settles $100 million lawsuit against niece over financial leaks to New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>President Trump settled a $100 million lawsuit against his niece, Mary Trump, over his accusations that she leaked his confidential information to The New York Times for an investigation into his finances.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=2382\">Investment in defense tech is soaring as Pentagon encourages venture capitalists to participate<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe 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,\u201d attorneys for both wrote in a joint letter filed Tuesday with a New York state court in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p>A formal dismissal, which would be with prejudice, meaning Mr. Trump could not sue again, is expected in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>The president accused his niece of engaging \u201cin an insidious plot\u201d to leak confidential information to the outlet that led to its Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into his tax and financial records. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 2018 probe reported that Mr. Trump\u2019s father, Fred Trump Sr., gave his son at least $413 million through his real estate empire over the years, with the help of \u201cdubious tax schemes during the 1990s.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump sued his niece in 2021 alongside the NYT and three of its reporters, arguing they conspired to leak sensitive records and were \u201cmotivated by a personal vendetta.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=2380\">Ukrainian anti-corruption agency says security employee bugged investigator\u2019s home<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He said Ms. Trump\u2019s leak was a \u201cblatant breach\u201d of a confidentiality agreement in a 2001 settlement over the estate \u2060of Mr. Trump\u2019s father and Ms. Trump\u2019s grandfather, as the reporters \u201cconvinced\u201d her to \u201csmuggle records out of her attorney\u2019s office and turn them over to The Times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Trump\u2019s lawyers dubbed the lawsuit \u201cbaseless.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Trump wields the confidentiality provision as if it were virtually unlimited in scope and time, precluding speech on issues that became of central public concern once he first ran for President of the United States. His interpretation is unreasonable and has already been rejected by Dutchess County Supreme Court Justice Greenwald,\u201d her lawyers wrote in court filings.<\/p>\n<p>Ms. Trump, a clinical psychologist, identified herself as a source in her 2020 memoir, \u201cToo Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World\u2019s Most Dangerous Man,\u201d which Mr. Trump called \u201can ill-conceived effort to profit\u201d off the leak.<\/p>\n<p>A judge dismissed the president\u2019s lawsuit against the newspaper and its reporters in 2023 and ordered Trump to pay almost $400,000 of their legal fees.<\/p>\n<p>However, in 2024, a state appeals \u2060court found a \u201csubstantial\u201d legal basis for Mr. Trump\u2019s confidentiality claim against his niece, with \u201cnominal\u201d damages rather than the $100 million he sought.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/homebuyerrelocation.com\/?p=2378\">Waymo recalls 3,800 vehicles after they drove themselves into construction zones<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Trump settled a $100 million lawsuit against his niece, Mary Trump, over his accusations that she leaked his confidential information to The New York Times for an investigation into his finances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,35],"tags":[14,1575,1574,642],"class_list":["post-2384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-trump-central","tag-donald-trump","tag-fred-trump-sr","tag-mary-trump","tag-the-new-york-times"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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