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A civil lawsuit filed in 2016 by a plaintiff using the names Katie Johnson and Jane Doe against Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump.
There is no credible, documented evidence that paid off “minor victims” in the way viral posts have claimed; multiple fact-checks and news investigations found no court records or verifiable settlemen...
Tiffany Doe is not a publicly identified person but a pseudonymous “material witness” whose affidavit appeared in court papers tied to a 2016 set of civil suits in which a woman using the names Katie ...
Media coverage and social-platform circulation of the so-called filings have been a patchwork of recirculation, correction and contextual clarification: while social posts repeatedly resurfaced an ano...
Multiple civil suits brought by women accusing of produced mixed legal outcomes: the most consequential were ’s lawsuits, which resulted in multi‑million dollar judgments that were later the subject o...
There is an allegation in the recently released Epstein-related files that a girl was forced to perform oral sex on at about age 13–14, but that allegation is unproven and—according to the notes in th...
— the pseudonymous plaintiff who in accused and of holding her as a “sex slave” and raping her as a 13‑year‑old — filed complaints that included anonymous witness statements but produced no publicly v...
A federal judge in California dismissed the April 2016 Katie Johnson complaint on procedural — not evidentiary — grounds, finding that the pleading failed to state cognizable federal civil‑rights clai...
A person using the name "Katie Johnson" filed multiple lawsuits in 2016 accusing Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her as a 13‑year‑old in 1994; those filings were publicly docum...