The anonymous plaintiff—identified only as "Katie Johnson" in an initial
legal filing that was dismissed in California, and "Jane Doe" in two subsequent legal filings in New York—said that she was raped by Trump during a party hosted by the now-deceased pedophile Jeffrey Epstein at his New York City apartment. In the third and final
lawsuit, Doe alleged she had numerous sexual encounters with Trump and Epstein at the latter's parties and said she was also raped by Epstein, as
BuzzFeed News reported at the time.
Among the lurid details of the lawsuit, Jane Doe alleged Trump tied her to a bed, "forcibly raped" her and threatened her and her family with physical harm, if not death, if she told anyone about the assault. "I understood that Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein knew that I was 13 years old," Jane Doe wrote in an affidavit.
Farrow alleges that after the suit was filed in September 2016,
Enquirer editor Howard and Trump lawyer Cohen were in contact frequently. (Cohen was
sentenced to three years in prisonlast December on charges including campaign finance violations for his part in hush payments to McDougal and adult film star Stormy Daniels.)
