Mary Trump makes final pitch to judge to compel her uncle to hand over Fred Trump estate 'valuation' docs

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Source: Law & Crime

Jul 26th, 2025, 7:57 am


Mary Trump's lawyers made their final pitch to a judge in the hopes that he'll ultimately compel the discovery of documents on the "valuation" of Fred Trump Sr.'s estate and boost their defense as they try to defeat her uncle, Donald Trump, in his lawsuit. The reply in support of reargument from the president's defendant niece and her attorney, Theodore Boutrous, on Friday stated that New York Supreme Court Justice Robert R. Reed was wrong to exclude so-called "Estate Valuation Materials" from discovery.

Those materials, the daughter of Fred Trump Jr. insists, will help her prove she was fraudulently induced into a 2001 Trump family settlement and, therefore, the "confidentiality provision" she had signed was void — torpedoing Donald Trump's breach of contract case. The estate materials are "relevant, indeed central, to a live affirmative defense in this case," wrote the defense.

"Defendant seeks the 'Estate Valuation Materials' because they are necessary to demonstrate that she was deliberately misled into entering into the settlement agreement by Plaintiff's misrepresentations about the value of assets at issue in the underlying estate litigation," the filing said. "Those materials are plainly relevant and discoverable under the CPLR."

"Defendant respectfully submits that, by denying her discovery from the Plaintiff on her affirmative defense of fraud, the Order deprived Defendant of the opportunity to develop a factual record and present her defense on the merits," the reply in support of further argument over discovery continued. "Further, the Order is likewise hindering Defendant's ability to obtain third-party discovery because, as of the filing of this reply, a third party has refused to provide subpoenaed discovery relevant to Defendant's affirmative defense of fraud on the ground that the Court has concluded it is outside the scope of relevant discovery."

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Full headline: 'She was deliberately misled': Mary Trump makes final pitch to judge to compel her uncle to hand over Fred Trump estate 'valuation' docs

Link to FILING (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26031737/453299-2021-donald-j-trump-v-mary-l-trump-et-al-memorandum-of-law-i-188.pdf