Donald Trump sued by niece Mary Trump over millions of dollars in inheritance
- Lawsuit accuses US president of conspiring with his brother and sister to defraud her by undervaluing her share in family business
- Allegations follow publication of Mary Trump’s tell-all book about her uncle
US President Donald Trump has been sued by his niece Mary for allegedly conspiring with his brother and sister to defraud her of tens of millions of dollars by using falsified documents to undervalue her share in the family business.
The suit filed on Thursday by Mary Trump comes months after the publication of her damning tell-all book about the family, which a lawsuit by the president’s late brother, Robert Trump, failed to halt.
Mary Trump’s suit, which focuses on the settlement of disputed wills, brings to light more potentially damaging allegations less than six weeks before the presidential election.
She alleges that Donald Trump, along with Robert Trump and their sister Maryanne, failed to follow through on a pledge to “watch over her interests as fiduciaries” after she inherited minority interests in the family business following the death of her father Fred Trump, the president’s older brother, according to the complaint.
“They lied,” Mary Trump said in the complaint. “Rather than protect Mary’s interests, they designed and carried out a complex scheme to siphon funds away from her interests, conceal their grift, and deceive her about the true value of what she had inherited.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
