Donald Trump's niece loses lawsuit over inheritance

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Source: Reuters

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Donald Trump has defeated his niece Mary Trump in a lawsuit where she accused the former U.S. president and two of his siblings of defrauding her out of a multimillion-dollar inheritance.

In a decision on Monday, Justice Robert Reed of a New York state court in Manhattan said Mary Trump released her claims against her relatives in a 2001 settlement over the estate of Donald Trump's father Fred Trump Sr.

Reed said the settlement, which gave Mary Trump with more than $2.7 million, was neither "a product of overreaching and unfair circumstances" nor "a case where defendants' alleged threats preluded the exercise of plaintiff's free will."

Lawyers for Mary Trump had no immediate comment.

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[LetMyPeopleVote]

1. It is hard to invalidate a release

[Srkdqltr]

2. So she got 2.7mill. Than signed off in a settlement.

Her lawsuit now was for more. Over what she already got?

[jimfields33]

3. I can see why she lost.

Any judge would have found this unable to go forward or even give more money.

[TheRickles]

5. She must've known this, so I wonder why she pursued it. She's shown excellent judgment elsewhere....

[Srkdqltr]

6. She is still a Trump no matter how reasonable she sounds on the talk shows.

[electric_blue68]

15. Wow what a blanket statement. So NO One (from many & our POV) from a larger part of a disgusting...

family turn out to be on the decent side?

see posts 7 & 9 for financial short changing chicanary

[Srkdqltr]

18. 7 & 9 were not posted when my #6 was posted.

It's Trump business and I dont care really. I'm not getting any.

[Mawspam2]

4. Just like TFG does with his real estate...

...they lowballed her inheritance when she deserved more.

[rickford66]

7. She has said the settlement was based on fraud.

The family understated the value of the estate etc. She had the records to prove it after many years.

[Bengus81]

9. Exactly what two of the KKKoch brothers did to the other two

When they sold out of the family biz. Charles and his brother David cooked the books to make Koch look worth much less. The other two brothers later sued and won.

[SWBTATTReg]

14. Did not know this, I wonder when the one brother recently died (last year or so) if the other one

ripped his family off too?

[jaxexpat]

8. I don't see that the judge addressed the contention that Mary was given false information.

It looked to me that she signed a release thinking it was a fair settlement only to later discover the numbers she'd been given were incorrect. Isn't that fraud on someone's part?

How do these son-of-a-bitches get away with that? The judge's credentials seem as shiny as a new penny. I mean, would it kill somebody if the bad guys could lose once in a while?

Is it that the laws are purposely written to protect the guilty? (Or written in hieroglyphics?) Asking for a nation stuck in a self-generating cycle of cynicism, anger and depression.

[rsdsharp]

10. Ordinarily, fraud is grounds to invalidate an agreement.

In addition, the statute of limitations doesn’t begin to run until the defrauded party discovers, or in the exercise of reasonable care, should have discovered the fraud.

She says she discovered the fraud after retrieving documents for the NY Times. However, she retrieved them from HER attorney, so she wasn’t defrauded, because she had the information of the true value of the estate all along. It’s just that she, and presumably her attorney, didn’t look at it.

[jaxexpat]

11. Is she, then, a victim of her attorney's incompetence?

Even as I typed that out, it smelled off. Though I know from personal experience, attorneys come in classes of competence which, and much like doctors, is never mentioned by their peers.

[rsdsharp]

12. If they didn't review the documents, or tell about them if they did, then yes, probably.

[jaxexpat]

13. Is there redress?

[rsdsharp]

16. I suppose she could sue for malpractice, although the statute may have run.

If she’s deemed to have had constructive possession of the records, it’s definitely run.

[jaxexpat]

19. Oh well. Too bad for Mary Trump.

She'll just have to scrounge by somehow with a meager $2.7 million (less attorney fees).

Thanks for the straightforward responses.