Newly Public Records Show Trump Placed Call to Former 'Apprentice' Contestant the Day of Alleged Sexual Assault
The call logs support the account of former "Apprentice" contestant Summer Zervos, wrote Zervos' lawyer Mariann Meier Wang of Cuti Hecker Wang in court filings.
November 05, 2019 at 06:11 PM
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President Donald Trump's phone records from more than a decade ago were made public Tuesday, showing that the timing of conversations between Trump and former "Apprentice" contestant Summer Zervos lines up with Zervos' account of their interactions in 2007 and 2008.
Zervos has accused Trump of sexual assault, and she sued him for defamation in New York County Supreme Court in January 2017 after he denied the accusation and described her as a liar.
In the Verizon records, all of Trump's calls are redacted except six calls between Trump and a number associated with Zervos. The records cover late December 2007 to March 2008, including a call made on the day of one of two alleged assaults.
The records were initially marked confidential, but Zervos' lawyer Mariann Meier Wang of Cuti Hecker Wang argued that there was no reason why records containing Trump's old phone number should be private, and she filed a motion to that effect in October.
In court filings, Wang wrote that the records support Zervos' account of what happened between her and Trump.
"The additional (records) corroborate Plaintiff's account of the sexual assaults with even more granularity and with a degree of precision that Plaintiff could not have known were she not telling the truth about those interactions when she spoke publicly about them before this case was filed," Wang wrote.
A spokeswoman for Kasowitz Benson Torres, the firm representing Trump, responded to the release in a statement Tuesday.
"That President Trump may have had several phone calls with Ms. Zervos, who had been a contestant on The Apprentice, in no way corroborates Ms. Zervos's allegations," the statement said. "In fact, at the time, Ms. Zervos, who initiated most of those calls, was pestering Mr. Trump for a job. Clearly, her counsel is resorting to litigating this case in the press because her claims have no merit in Court."
Deposition and discovery is ongoing in the case, and Trump has a deadline of Nov. 30 to provide four potential dates when he can be deposed, according to court papers. None of those dates can be later than Jan. 31, according to the papers.
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