What other court dockets or case numbers involve Jane Doe or Katie Johnson allegations against Donald Trump or Jeffrey Epstein?
Executive summary
A pseudonymous plaintiff known in reporting as “Katie Johnson” or “Jane Doe” filed multiple federal complaints in 2016 alleging she was raped by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein as a minor; one suit was filed in California in April 2016 and was dismissed, then a substantially similar complaint was filed in New York in June 2016 and later withdrawn days before the 2016 presidential election [1] [2] [3]. Court pleadings and a PDF copy of a Southern District of New York complaint labeled Jane Doe v. Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein are publicly available in reporting and archive copies, but the reporting supplied here does not consistently list an official docket number for each filing [4] [5] [6].
1. The California federal filing: an April 2016 complaint that was dismissed
Reporting and summaries note a federal lawsuit filed in California in April 2016 that accused Trump and Epstein of raping a thirteen‑year‑old; that complaint was dismissed on procedural grounds within a month, and it is identified in multiple overviews of Trump’s assault allegations as the initial Katie Johnson filing [1] [2] [3]. Sources trace the California action as the first public court step by the pseudonymous accuser, but none of the supplied documents include a clear docket number for that April 2016 California filing in the materials provided here [1] [7].
2. The New York refiling: Jane Doe v. Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey E. Epstein
A second, refiled complaint identified the plaintiff as “Jane Doe” and was lodged in New York in June 2016; that New York suit repeated allegations of sexual assault at Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse and included sworn declarations from other pseudonymous witnesses such as “Tiffany Doe” and “Joan Doe” [3] [4] [1]. A PDF of the New York complaint and related filings has circulated in public archives and reporting, and at least one public docket aggregator links to a downloadable court docket entry for a Katie Johnson matter—indicating the existence of a formal federal docket, though the sources provided here do not present a single canonical case number in text for readers to copy [4] [5] [6].
3. Withdrawal, press plans, and public visibility around the 2016 election
The plaintiff’s planned public appearance with counsel weeks before the 2016 election was abruptly canceled amid threats reported by her attorney, and the lawsuits were withdrawn or dropped by early November 2016—reports consistently state the New York filing was withdrawn on or shortly before November 4, 2016 [3] [2] [8]. Multiple outlets note that the anonymous plaintiff used the pseudonyms Katie Johnson and Jane Doe across filings, and that she filed and then withdrew several suits related to Trump and Epstein over that period [9] [7].
4. Post‑2016 disclosures and the FBI/DOJ material that re‑surfaced the allegations
The renewed attention in 2025–2026 arose after the Justice Department released a large tranche of Epstein‑related files that included an FBI document summarizing a Jane Doe allegation and referenced the prior withdrawn lawsuits; media coverage of that disclosure emphasized the presence of the Jane Doe complaint but also quoted DOJ caveats that some released documents contained sensational and false claims and that inclusion in files does not establish guilt [10] [9] [11]. The DOJ’s release spawned new public copies and reporting of the earlier court documents, but the reporting here shows the FBI‑style complaints and internal files rather than adding new civil docket numbers beyond the original California and New York filings [10] [9].
5. What is known — and what the reporting does not provide
Available reporting and archived PDFs confirm at least two federal case events: the California April 2016 filing (Katie Johnson) and the June 2016 New York refiling as Jane Doe, with public copies of the New York complaint accessible via a PDF reproduced in reporting and via archive/docket aggregators [1] [4] [5] [6]. The materials provided here do not consistently display specific court docket numbers for every filing, and therefore a precise list of formal case numbers (docket IDs) cannot be compiled from these sources alone without further court‑record searches at the respective federal clerk’s offices or PACER [4] [6].
Conclusion
The record in the supplied reporting points to two principal federal legal entries tied to the pseudonymous accuser—an April 2016 California complaint and a June 2016 New York complaint filed as Jane Doe—with public PDFs and docket‑archive links corroborating those filings, but the exact case/docket numbers are not consistently published in the items provided and would require primary court‑record lookup to enumerate definitively [1] [4] [6] [5].