{"id":219847,"date":"2026-05-04T22:05:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:05:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219847\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T22:05:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T22:05:42","slug":"manhattan-appellate-court-orders-president-trump-to-disclose-new-financial-documents-in-lawsuit-against-his-niece","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/219847\/","title":{"rendered":"Manhattan Appellate court orders President Trump to disclose new financial documents in lawsuit against his niece"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday, April 16, 2026, en route Joint Base Andrews for a trip to Las Vegas.<\/p>\n

Official White House Photo by Molly Riley<\/p>\n

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A Manhattan<\/a> Appellate Court granted President Donald Trump<\/a>\u2019s niece, Mary Trump<\/a>, some fuel to defend herself last week against a lawsuit that the president initiated against her over her role in a New York Times investigation<\/a> into his finances.<\/p>\n

President Trump originally filed the lawsuit in 2021, claiming that his estranged niece should be held liable for breaching a confidentiality agreement when she provided financial documents to a team of Times journalists in 2016 that tracked the hundreds of millions of real estate assets the president received from his father early in his real estate career.<\/p>\n

In her defense, Mary Trump alleged that President Trump induced her to sign the settlement agreement at the heart of this lawsuit by fraudulently valuing it. Under New York law, Mary argued, a fraudulent agreement should render the contract\u2019s provisions null and void.<\/p>\n

She pleaded the fraud defense in 2023, including a motion for discovery to prove that the compensation President Trump promised under the agreement was fraudulent and misleading. Trump refused to produce that discovery\u2014which the court referred to as the \u201cestate valuation materials.\u201d<\/p>\n

Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Robert R. Reed previously denied Mary Trump\u2019s motion, but that decision has now been reversed by a panel of Appellate Court, First Department judges. The appellate court found that Reed had \u201cimprovidently exercised [his] discretion\u201d in stopping the discovery. It ultimately decided that the lower court should have been more liberal in its interpretation of the scope of necessary discovery in the Trump family dispute.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese principles entitle defendant to the requested discovery material to establish her affirmative defense,\u201d the court wrote in its decision.\n<\/p>\n

Neither Mary Trump\u2019s lawyer, Lee R. Crain of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, nor President Trump\u2019s lawyer, Michael T. Madaio of Madaio Eyet & Associates, responded to comment on the decision.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Prior to the appellate court\u2019s decision, the Supreme Court had set discovery in the case to conclude by late July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump speaks with members of the media before boarding Marine One on the South Lawn of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":203679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[86588,12143,86589,153,86590,86591,86592,75,84,83,4327,86593,9,86594,24,73697,63,86595,86596,86597,86598],"class_list":["post-219847","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-confidentiality-agreement-dispute","tag-contract-dispute","tag-discovery-ruling","tag-donald-trump","tag-estate-valuation-materials","tag-fraud-defense","tag-legal-battle-trump-niece","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-manhattan-supreme-court","tag-mary-trump","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-appellate-court","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-times-investigation","tag-nyc","tag-real-estate-inheritance","tag-robert-r-reed-decision","tag-trump-family-lawsuit","tag-trump-finances"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219847","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219847"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219847\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219847"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219847"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219847"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}