Queens County surrogate Court judge Peter Kelly, tossed out the lawsuit brought against Mary Trump and her publishers by the Trump family, to block the release of her tell all book.
Judge Peter Kelly cited “several improprieties” in Robert Trump’s filing that rendered it “fatally defective”—including that it was based on the official disposition of patriarch Fred Trump Sr.’s estate, which wrapped up in 2001 and is thus for legal purposes “nonexistent.” That settlement included a confidentiality clause that niece Mary Trump signed, and which the elder Trumps have argued prevents her from publishing the sort of titillating family secrets her memoir is set to contain, The Daily Beast reports.
Also, the surrogate court could not render the type of judgment needed to block the release of the book that the Trumps are seeking since the court ‘strictly handles the wills and assets of the deceased.’ Judge Kelly advised Robert Trump to take his case to the New York Supreme Court.
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