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A New York appellate judge ruled on Wednesday that the publisher Simon & Schuster could go ahead with its plans to release a tell-all book by Mary L. Trump, the niece of President Trump, reversing a lower courts decision from this week that had temporarily halted publication.
The decision by the judge, Alan D. Scheinkman, means that Simon & Schuster can move forward in publishing the book, Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the Worlds Most Dangerous Man, which is scheduled to be released at the end of July. In court papers filed on Tuesday, Simon & Schuster claimed that tens of thousands of copies of the book had already been printed, adding that it is a best seller on Amazon.
Justice Scheinkmans ruling, however, put off addressing a central aspect of the bitter spat about the manuscript that has been roiling all month in the Trump family: whether, by writing the book, Ms. Trump violated a confidentiality agreement put in place nearly 20 years ago after a struggle over the will of her grandfather, Fred Trump Sr., Donald Trumps father.
In his decision, Justice Scheinkman ruled that Simon & Schuster was not a party to and thus could not be bound by the confidentiality agreement, which was signed by Ms. Trump, Donald Trump and the presidents two siblings, Robert S. Trump and Maryanne Trump Barry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/01/us/politics/mary-trump-book-lawsuit.html?searchResultPosition=1
Walleye
(31,048 posts)Simon&Schuster was not a party to the NDA. Let him sue his niece, should be interesting
UTUSN
(70,740 posts)malaise
(269,157 posts)He can't stop this
Blue Owl
(50,498 posts)n/t
demosincebirth
(12,543 posts)safeinOhio
(32,717 posts)Want to make sure it out sells The Art of the Deal.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)of her book and Donald Trump left flat broke in January.
I hope it happens.