President Donald Trump has reached a settlement in a $100 million lawsuit he brought against his niece, Mary Trump, resolving a long-running legal dispute tied to the disclosure of family financial information connected to a major 2018 New York Times investigation. The case stemmed from allegations that confidential tax-related records were improperly shared and later used in reporting on the Trump family’s financial history.
According to a joint court filing submitted this week, both sides confirmed they had agreed to settle the matter and intend to dismiss the case with prejudice in the coming weeks after completing remaining procedural requirements. A dismissal with prejudice would permanently close the case, preventing it from being refiled in the future. The financial or contractual terms of the settlement were not made public.
The lawsuit, filed in 2021, also initially included The New York Times and several of its journalists involved in the Pulitzer Prize-winning investigation into Trump’s taxes. The reporting detailed decades of financial arrangements within the Trump family business, including substantial transfers of wealth and tax-related strategies.
Trump alleged that Mary Trump breached a confidentiality agreement signed years earlier and worked with reporters to provide internal documents. He further claimed the actions were motivated by personal hostility and that she later benefited financially from public attention through a memoir published in 2020.
In 2023, a court dismissed the claims against the newspaper and its reporters and ordered Trump to pay legal costs. The settlement with Mary Trump concludes the remaining portion of the litigation. The agreement effectively ends a multi-year dispute over access to sensitive family financial records that had drawn significant public and legal attention since the original investigation was published, while closing one of several related legal battles surrounding the case. The matter is now effectively resolved entirely.
