Trump Children Dropped From Suit Over ‘Apprentice’ Pitches
- Voluntary dismissal will streamline case for trial, judge told
- Suit filed in 2018 set to go to trial in Manhattan in January
Donald Trump Jr, from left, Ivanka Trump and Eric Trump
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Donald Trump won’t be joined by his children when he goes to trial in a civil suit alleging he ripped off viewers of his Celebrity Apprentice TV show for years by pitching investments in a doomed desktop videophone — a device he insisted was the next big thing.
Former Trump fans who filed the suit five years ago voluntarily dropped Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump as defendants to streamline the dispute ahead of a trial set for January, according to a stipulation between the parties signed Friday by the judge overseeing the case.