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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.
Two distinct civil-era threads tied to the archive have named : a high‑profile commonly publicized under the pseudonym “”/“,” which was dismissed or voluntarily dropped after short-lived filings in an...
’s complaint accusing (and ) of raping a 13‑year‑old was filed in 2016 and later refiled and then withdrawn or dismissed that same year, and there is no active 2024 civil case against Trump under that...
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 “...
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...
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 ...
Court records show an anonymous plaintiff using the name “” filed at least one federal complaint in April 2016 naming and ; that docket contains a complaint, summons and routine docket entries and was...
A captioned was filed in the on April 26, 2016, initially under the name v. and and later refiled under a Doe caption; the pleading accuses Epstein and Trump of repeated of the plaintiff while she was...
The 2016 federal filings filed under v. (C.D. Cal. No. 5:16‑cv‑00797) primarily consist of a civil complaint that names material witnesses by pseudonym and routine docket filings such as a request to ...
There is reporting that a woman using the name (also referenced as ) gave at least one recorded interview about raped her when she was 13, and that in documents and media coverage . Major news outlets...
The filed under the pseudonym "" accused and of sexually abusing and raping the plaintiff when she was 13 years old at parties held at Epstein’s residence in 1994, describing forcible sex acts, threat...
filed a alleging sexual assault by and , but that lawsuit was and never proceeded to a trial where prosecutors or defense attorneys could respond to live testimony . Reporting and later commentary sho...
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...