Donald Trump must turn over information about other women who’ve accused him of sexual misconduct because his predecessor President Bill Clinton had to do the same thing, a former “Apprentice” contestant argues in new court papers.
Onetime reality TV contestant Summer Zervos is suing Trump for defamation after he called her a liar for accusing him of groping her in 2007.
Trump lawyer Marc Kasowitz has refused to give Zervos documents related to other accusers, calling the demand a “fishing expedition.”
But Zervos argues in a Manhattan Supreme Court filing that in Clinton v. Jones, where a former state employee named Paula Jones sued the then-president for sexual harassment in 1994, Clinton had to “provide discovery about other women he had propositioned or had sex with.”
In fact, a judge even ordered Clinton “to respond to interrogatories requiring him to identify every state or federal employee, and every person contacted through a state trooper, who he propositioned or had sexual relations” with over a five-year period, Zervos attorney Mariann Wang notes in the filing.
The judge in Clinton v. Jones determined the information was potentially relevant to “establishing a pattern of conduct,” Wang writes.
Kasowitz did not immediately return a message seeking comment.
Manhattan Supreme Court Justice Jennifer Schecter will ultimately determine what Trump must disclose in the coming weeks.