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A civil complaint alleging sexual assault was filed in U.S. district court by Katie Johnson against Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein in 2016.
Katie Johnson’s allegations were presented in court papers and media interviews and were accompanied in some filings by affidavits and ancillary documents that circulated online, but independent corro...
Snopes and other fact‑checkers concluded that the lurid "Katie Johnson" court documents are genuine legal filings that originated in 2016 but do not establish the truth of the allegations they contain...
Several civil lawsuits and court filings contain allegations or submitted documents that link Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, most prominently a 2016 California complaint filed under the pseudonym “...
The 2016 court filings by a plaintiff using the name "Katie Johnson" accused Jeffrey Epstein and Donald J. Trump of sexually abusing her beginning when she was 13, and sought substantial damages; the ...
The public record shows a short-lived series of civil filings by an anonymous plaintiff who used the name "Katie Johnson" (later identified as "Jane Doe" in New York filings) that were filed and then ...
Katie Johnson’s civil filings — including the complaint and related sworn materials that have been circulated as affidavits — are part of a federal lawsuit captioned Katie Johnson v. Donald J. Trump, ...
The public record confirms that a civil complaint by a plaintiff using the name "Katie Johnson" (also referred to as Jane Doe) was filed against Donald J. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein in 2016, and that d...