“After five years (of procedure), Ms. Zervos no longer wishes to have a dispute with the accused and has ensured the right to speak freely about his experience,” said her lawyers.
Summer Zervos gives up her legal fight. She withdrew her defamation complaint against the former US president whom she accuses of sexual assault while maintaining her allegations for facts dating back to 2007, according to information obtained on Friday from judicial sources.
Summer Zervos, is a former candidate for the reality show “The Apprentice” of which Donald Trump has long been the presenter. In January 2017, just before he entered the White House, Summer Zervos filed a civil libel complaint against the businessman because he called her a “liar”.
The real estate mogul has always denied it, but Summer Zervos accused him of groping and force kissing her in 2007 at a Los Angeles hotel. “All complaints are dropped,” reads a New York State Supreme Court court document dated Friday and signed by lawyers for both sides.
Summer Zervos “maintains her accusations”
“After five years (of procedure), Ms. Zervos no longer wishes to have a dispute with the accused (Donald Trump) and has ensured the right to speak freely about his experience,” the lawyers told AFP. complainant, Moira Penza and Beth Wilkinson.
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They specified that their client “maintained her accusations and had not accepted any” financial compensation.
On the side of the former US president, his lawyer Alina Habba described Summer Zervos’ decision as “prudent”. “She had no other choice because it was obvious that on the basis of the incriminated facts our client had done nothing wrong,” the lawyer told AFP.
Rape charge
Neither party has explained why Summer Zervos dropped her defamation claim. In total, around twenty women have accused the former president of sexual assault or harassment in recent years.
In addition to Summer Zervos, columnist E. Jean Carroll accuses the former real estate mogul of having raped her in a changing room at a New York department store in the mid-1990s. Donald Trump, who denied all allegations, has never been the subject of criminal proceedings for these long-barred charges.
Original article published on BFMTV.com
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