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The allegation that Donald Trump raped a 13‑year‑old identified in court papers as “Katie Johnson” originates from a 2016 civil lawsuit that accused Trump and Jeffrey Epstein of raping an underage gir...
Three separate civil filings by an anonymous plaintiff using the names “Katie Johnson” and later “Jane Doe” accused Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump of raping a 13‑year‑old in the 1990s; the first fed...
Jane Doe is the pseudonymous plaintiff who has filed — and in some instances voluntarily dismissed — civil suits accusing Donald J. Trump of sexually abusing or raping her as a minor in lawsuits tied ...
An anonymous plaintiff using the pseudonyms “Katie Johnson” and later “Jane Doe” filed lawsuits in 2016 accusing Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein of raping her in 1994 when she was 13; those suits wer...
Court records from 2016 show that an anonymous plaintiff—filing as “Katie Johnson” and later as “Jane Doe”—filed federal complaints alleging graphic sexual assaults, including rape, by Donald J. Trump...
Several women have publicly accused Donald Trump of rape or of raping a minor; the most prominent civil finding of sexual abuse involved writer E. Jean Carroll, where a jury found Trump liable for sex...
Multiple news outlets and legal records show that several women have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct that they say occurred when they were minors; the most-discussed minor-related accusation...
Tiffany Doe is a pseudonymous witness who filed a sworn declaration in federal court saying she worked for Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s and personally witnessed sexual abuse of a then‑13‑year‑old plai...
The affidavit attributed to "Katie Johnson" would most likely appear on the federal district court docket for the Central District of California case styled Katie Johnson v. Donald J. Trump, case numb...
Tiffany Doe is a pseudonymous witness whose sworn declaration says she "was physically present at each of the four occasions" where the plaintiff (Jane/Katie Johnson) was allegedly sexually assaulted ...
— a pseudonym used in civil complaints filed in 2016 — accused and of repeatedly raping her when she was 13 at Epstein’s residence and named both men in lawsuits that were later withdrawn or dismissed...
The 2016 complaints in the included a civil complaint and multiple sworn declarations filed as exhibits — notably a declaration by and supporting declarations by and — and those filings are available ...
Public records and court filings show the accuser in the high‑profile Trump/Epstein suit proceeded under a pseudonym—“Jane Doe” (also referred to in some reporting as “Katie Johnson” or other pseudony...
Prosecutors did not bring criminal charges in the Katie Johnson matter; the civil case was filed and then dismissed or withdrawn in 2016 after judges found the complaint legally deficient and the plai...
Tiffany Doe’s sworn declaration alleges she witnessed sexual abuse by Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump in the 1990s and that she worked for Epstein and helped procure girls; the affidavit was filed in...
Since the anonymous witness known as “” filed a sworn declaration tied to the civil complaint alleging that and raped a 13‑year‑old plaintiff, that declaration itself remains the central piece of purp...
The public record in v. / includes sworn declarations filed as exhibits — most notably the declaration — but the reporting and docket entries provided show no publicly released court deposition transc...
Three federal civil complaints filed in by an anonymous plaintiff who used the names “” and “” accused and of ; those filings appear in at least three docketed cases: 5:16‑cv‑00797 (C.D. Cal.), 1:16‑c...
Public, contemporaneous evidence about the so‑called 1994 lawsuit consists mainly of the civil complaints and accompanying sworn declarations filed under pseudonyms, media reports summarizing those co...
The central piece of public evidence that underpins the declaration is the sworn affidavit itself, filed under a pseudonym as Exhibit B in a federal complaint alleging by and . Beyond that declaration...