Donald Trump battles to keep his divorce records under wraps after accusation of rape retracted by first wife
Two newspapers have requested to see the court records to gain more transparency on the Republican presidential candidate
Donald Trump is engaged in another lawsuit to keep the details of his divorce from Ivana Trump out of the public eye.
The New York real estate mogul turned presidential candidate divorced his first wife and the mother of his three eldest children in 1990, and 26 years later publications including the New York Times have requested to view the papers.
The request comes as Mr Trump is also being called upon to release his tax returns, evidence of his donations of “millions of dollars” to charity and his full medical report.
The publications seeking the divorce papers argued that they needed more evidence as to how Mr Trump treated his ex-wife following her accusation that he raped her in 1989.
Mr Trump denied the claim and Ms Trump later retracted the allegation, saying she had not meant rape “in the criminal sense”.
Their divorce was granted on the ground of “cruel and inhuman treatment” and they reached an undisclosed settlement.
Further transparency on the candidate is also in the public interest, argue the New York Times and the Gannett newspaper, following his controversial and "sexist" comments about women, with whom he is ranking low in the polls.
State law mandates that divorce records only should be made public “under special circumstances”.
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