President Donald Trump has reached a settlement in his $100 million lawsuit against his niece, Mary Trump, whom he accused of helping leak confidential family financial records to The New York Times for its Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into his tax history.
Both sides announced the agreement in a joint court filing Tuesday, signaling an end to a legal battle that began in 2021.
“The parties are pleased to report that they have reached a settlement and anticipate being able to stipulate to the dismissal of this action with prejudice in the ensuing weeks, following completion of certain conditions precedent,” the filing stated.
Terms of the settlement were not disclosed. Once finalized, the case will be dismissed with prejudice, preventing Trump from bringing the same claims against his niece in the future.
Trump originally sued Mary Trump, The New York Times, and reporters Susanne Craig, David Barstow, and Russell Buettner over the newspaper’s 2018 investigation into his finances and tax records. The report concluded that Trump received at least $413 million, adjusted for inflation, from his father’s real estate empire and benefited from what the newspaper described as questionable tax strategies.
The investigation, which took 18 months to complete, earned the three journalists the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting.
In his lawsuit, Trump alleged that Mary Trump violated a confidentiality agreement she signed in 2001 by providing sensitive financial records to the newspaper. He claimed she worked with the reporters in what he described as an “insidious plot” motivated by personal animosity.
According to the lawsuit, Trump accused the reporters of persuading his niece to obtain confidential documents from her attorney’s office and share them with The New York Times. He also argued that the newspaper profited from publishing stories based on the records.
Trump further claimed that Mary Trump sought to benefit financially from the controversy through her 2020 bestselling memoir, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, which offered a highly critical account of the Trump family.
