Donald Trumps niece says ruling in Prince Andrew case helps her suit

Mary Trump, the niece of Donald Trump, has said that the ruling against Prince Andrew would help her own inheritance case against the former United States President.

The ruling, which denied the prince’s appeal for dismissal, was about the civil suit he faces in the US for sexually abusing Virginia Roberts Giuffre when she was 16. 

 U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected an argument by Andrew’s lawyers that Virginia Giuffre’s lawsuit should be thrown out at an early stage because of an old legal settlement she had reached with Jeffrey Epstein, the financier she claims set up sexual encounters with the prince. 

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This judgement might help bolster Mary Trump’s case, her lawyer believes. 

Mary Trump’s suit accuses her family of defrauding her of millions of dollars. One of the arguments given by Donald Trump is an older settlement agreement from 2001, which he believes releases him and the entire family from her claims. 

But Mary’s current lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, has claimed that her lawyer at that time was colluding with her family to deceive her and got her a bad deal, New York Post reported. 

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Kaplan wrote a letter on Thursday to Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Robert Reed, referring to the Giuffre ruling to deny Donald Trump’s motion to dismiss.

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“Judge Kaplan … in denying a motion to dismiss based on the scope of a prior release, reiterated the same principle that Your Honor [Reed] discussed with the parties at oral argument earlier this week — namely, that ‘it is not open to the court now to decide, as a matter of fact, just what the parties to the release … actually meant,'” Roberta Kaplan wrote in the letter, New York Post reported. 

Mary Trump had published a tell-all book on the Trump family in 2020, titled ‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man’. Two years prior to that, she worked with reporters for New York Times story on how her uncle, his brother, and his sister allegedly defrauded her and the government through dubious tax schemes.