What specific allegations does the Jane Doe make in the lawsuit against Donald Trump and what evidence supports them?
Executive summary
A woman identified in court papers and reporting as "Jane Doe" accused Donald Trump of raping her at private parties tied to Jeffrey Epstein when she was 13 years old; the claim was made in a 2016 civil complaint and accompanied by multiple sworn declarations from the plaintiff and other anonymous witnesses, but the complaint was dismissed and later withdrawn or refiled and then withdrawn again before reaching trial rape-allegations-refiled-against-trump/" target="blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">[1] [2] [3].
1. The core allegation: rape at Epstein’s Manhattan parties when the plaintiff was 13
Jane Doe’s central claim, as described in the federal complaints filed in 2016 and refilled later that year, is that she was sexually assaulted and raped by Donald Trump at a series of private parties hosted at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan residence in 1994 when she was 13 years old; the complaint explicitly alleges repeated forced sexual encounters involving both Trump and Epstein [1] [2].
2. Supporting testimony filed with the suit: sworn declarations from the plaintiff and witnesses
The complaint was accompanied by sworn statements: a declaration signed by Jane Doe describing what she called a “savage sexual attack,” and at least one corroborating declaration from a woman using the pseudonym “Tiffany Doe,” who stated she had recruited the then-13-year-old to parties and said she witnessed multiple sexual encounters in which Jane Doe was forced to have sex with Trump and others — Tiffany’s declaration claims she witnessed four encounters involving Trump and two involving Epstein [1] [4] [2].
3. Additional claimed corroboration and anonymous affidavits referenced in reporting
Press accounts and consolidated reporting note that other anonymous affidavits were submitted or referenced alongside the filings — including assertions that an anonymous witness attested Epstein employed people to procure underage girls and that another anonymous person stated the plaintiff had told them about assaults at the time they occurred — details that the public record and media reporting cite as part of the evidentiary material accompanying the complaint [2] [1].
4. Procedural history that affects evidentiary weight: dismissals, refilings, threats, and withdrawal
The first version of the suit filed in April 2016 was dismissed the following month; the plaintiff refiled in New York in June and again in September 2016, then scheduled a press conference that was abruptly canceled amid reported threats to the plaintiff, and ultimately the publicly reported complaint was withdrawn before trial, leaving the allegations untested in court [2] [1] [3]. Reporting notes it is not publicly known why the suit was withdrawn [3].
5. Defendants’ response and limits of the public record
The Trump Organization publicly called the allegations “completely frivolous” and politically motivated in contemporaneous reporting and warned the plaintiff’s attorney about sanctions if the suit were refiled, indicating a forceful denial and a threat of counter-litigation; independent journalistic summaries also report that some filings included anonymous witnesses, which courts and news accounts often treat as less probative absent corroboration [1] [2]. Public reporting and the filings themselves provide sworn statements by the plaintiff and witnesses but do not include material corroboration introduced at trial — there was no judicial finding on the substantive truth of the rape allegations because the case did not proceed to full adjudication [1] [2].
6. What the available evidence does — and does not — establish
The available public record establishes that Jane Doe accused Trump of rape in detailed sworn statements and that at least one witness (Tiffany Doe) filed a declaration claiming to have witnessed multiple forced sexual encounters; the record also documents procedural pauses, dismissals, threats, refilings, and an ultimate withdrawal that prevented the claims from being litigated to a factual finding in court, and journalists have reported anonymous affidavits but no public court ruling validating the allegations [1] [4] [2] [3].