Donald Trump settles $100 million lawsuit against niece Mary Trump

US President Donald Trump and his estranged niece, Mary Trump, have reached a settlement in a New York state court, officially ending a $100 million lawsuit regarding the leak of his private tax records. Both sides announced the resolution in a letter submitted to a Manhattan court

Trump has settled his ‌lawsuit accusing his niece Mary Trump of improperly leaking information to the New York Times for its Pulitzer Prize-winning 2018 probe into his finances and his alleged effort to avoid taxes.

Both sides ​announced a settlement in a letter filed on Tuesday with a New York ​state court in Manhattan, and expect to seek a formal dismissal ⁠in the coming weeks.

No terms were disclosed. A dismissal would be with prejudice, meaning ​the U.S. president could not sue again.

Lawsuit against Mary Trump:

Donald Trump sued Mary Trump in 2021, accusing her of joining an "insidious plot" with the ​Times to exploit his tax records in order to make money, advance their political ​agendas and fulfill vendettas.

Trump said his niece violated confidentiality provisions of a 2001 settlement over the ‌estate ⁠of Fred Trump Sr., who was Donald Trump's father and Mary Trump's grandfather. Fred Trump died in 1999.

Mary Trump, a psychologist, identified herself as a Times source in her 2020 tell-all best seller,"Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most ​Dangerous Man."

In May 2024, ​a state appeals ⁠court found a "substantial" legal basis for Donald Trump's confidentiality claim, but said he might deserve only "nominal damages" rather than the $100 million ​he sought.

Lawyers for Mary Trump argued that the lawsuit violated a ​New York ⁠state law barring frivolous cases designed to silence critics' free speech.

A judge overseeing the case dismissed Donald Trump's related claims against the Times and the reporters in 2023, and ⁠later ordered ​him to pay $392,639 of their legal fees.

The same ​judge in 2022 dismissed Mary Trump's separate lawsuit accusing the president and two of his siblings of defrauding her ​out of a multimillion-dollar inheritance.

Lawyers for Donald Trump and Mary Trump did ​not immediately responded to the news yet.