Have news reports or court dockets referenced sworn statements by Katie Johnson?
Executive summary
News coverage and at least one public court docket have referenced sworn statements connected to the person using the pseudonym "Katie Johnson": a Sacramento News & Review piece reports she "swore under penalty of perjury" about events in 2014 [1], and the archived civil complaint in the Epstein/Trump suit cites another witness — "Tiffany Doe" — as having agreed to provide sworn testimony that "fully verif[ies] the authenticity" of Katie Johnson’s claims [2]. Reporting is contested and entangled with allegations of fabrication and outside actors, and the public record available in the provided sources is limited and partial.
1. What the reporting actually says about Katie Johnson’s sworn statements
A long-form local report in Sacramento News & Review states that Katie Johnson "was an adult in 2014 when she swore under penalty of perjury" that she had been raped by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein in 1994, and the article also notes that she appeared on camera under a pseudonym and wig to make her accusations public [1]. That same article recounts that lawyer Lisa Bloom placed the allegation "on the record in a court of law," which the piece treats as evidence that a sworn statement exists in the legal sphere [1]. These are the specific claims about sworn statements contained in that news report; the Sacramento News & Review frames them amid skepticism and surrounding controversy [1].
2. What the court docket text in the archive actually shows
The archived civil complaint text linked in the search results includes a passage naming "Tiffany Doe" as a former employee of Jeffrey Epstein who "has agreed to provide sworn testimony in this civil case and any other future civil or criminal proceedings," and that Tiffany Doe will "fully verify the authenticity of the claims of the Plaintiff, Katie Johnson" [2]. That language is in the pleading itself and thus indicates the complaint asserted the existence or promise of sworn testimony corroborating Katie Johnson’s allegations [2]. The archived document does not, in the provided snippet, supply the actual sworn declaration from Katie Johnson nor the transcript of any testimonial hearing — it records an allegation by the plaintiff in the complaint that another witness would provide sworn testimony [2].
3. Points of dispute, alternative narratives, and motive signals in the public material
The Sacramento News & Review piece explicitly signals controversy: commentators and other actors have argued the "Katie Johnson" story was concocted by outside figures such as Norm Lubow, and the article indicates the story has been widely debated and labeled by some as debunked or politically motivated [1]. The piece also highlights that putting allegations "on the record" via counsel (Lisa Bloom) is not the same as an uncontested verified court transcript, and it relays skeptics’ claims that courtroom filings can be part of orchestrated narratives [1]. The archived complaint’s invocation of a promised witness statement (Tiffany Doe) can be read either as a normal litigation tactic to establish corroboration or as a contested factual claim awaiting proof; the document itself does not adjudicate truth [2].
4. What the available record does not show or settle
Neither of the two provided sources contain a standalone, authenticated sworn declaration from Katie Johnson herself accessible in the public snippets provided here, nor do they present a court transcript in which a Katie Johnson gives in-court sworn testimony; the Sacramento article reports that such a declaration was made "under penalty of perjury" while the docket text records that another witness "agreed to provide sworn testimony" [1] [2]. Therefore, based solely on these sources, one can say news reporting and a complaint docket have referenced sworn statements connected to Katie Johnson, but the public excerpts supplied do not let this analysis confirm the underlying declarations’ full content, provenance, or any judicial finding on their veracity [1] [2].
5. Bottom line for readers following the record
The public materials provided show both a news outlet saying Katie Johnson swore under penalty of perjury in 2014 and a court complaint that asserts a witness would provide sworn testimony verifying Katie Johnson’s claims [1] [2]. Those references establish that sworn statements are part of the narrative and the litigation strategy, but the sources here do not supply the primary sworn affidavits or court rulings that would definitively verify their content or credibility; competing accounts and allegations of fabrication are explicitly part of the public debate recounted by the Sacramento News & Review [1].