CNN: Trump Accuser Summer Zervos Seeks Recordings of the ‘The Apprentice’

‘They want them to turn over all documents, video, or audio that feature Summer Zervos or Donald Trump speaking about Summer Zervos’

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BLITZER: "Tonight, a new legal move by one of President Trump’s accusers. The former “Apprentice” contestant, summer Zervos, seeking access to recordings of the reality TV show, looking for evidence in her defamation case against the president. Let’s go to our national correspondent, Athena Jones. Athena, tell us more about this new request by Zervos and her lawyer."
JONES: "Hi, wolf, that’s right. Zervos’ lawyer is asking metro Goldwyn may er, which owns the archives of “The apprentice” to provide a series of documents to her legal team. They want them to turn over all documents, video, or audio that feature Summer Zervos or Donald Trump speaking about Summer Zervos and all video in which trump speaks about women in an inappropriate matter. Here’s what they’re explicitly asking for. Any recordings of trump talking or commenting about the female candidates or female potential candidates of any season of “The apprentice” in any sexual or inappropriate manner, including, without limitation, any statements or comments by trump concerning any female candidates or potential candidate’s body or body parts and/or his sexual or romantic desire or intention concerning any female candidate or potential candidate. So they — the lawyer for summer Zervos, Marianne Wang, tells me, we are gathering evidence that will prove that defendant trump lied when he falsely denigrated Mrs. Zervos and denied sexually assaulting her. Of course, Zervos is suing trump for defamation, for denying those allegations, calling her a liar. She has accused him of sexually assaulting her in 2007. So this is interesting, we also know that they want to depose a representative from mgm, to ask them how are all of these audio and video recordings from any tapings or additions related to the apprentice, how are they maintained, how are they stored? Who has access to them? Were any ever destroyed? They want to be able to ask mgm representatives directly about those recordings. They’re also asking for records from the Beverly hills hotel. That is the location where Zervos says was one of the incidents where she says that trump groped her back in 2007. That subpoena is seeking records of any stay by trump from 2005 through the end of 2009, plus any documents related to Keith Shiller, his longtime body gard, and also Rhona Graf, his longtime assistant or summer Zervos. They also want to depose a representative from the Beverly hills hotel, to ask similar questions about how the records are maintained. They also want to find out if there are any video recordings that depict the entrances, common areas, or bungalow areas of the Beverly hills hotel during the month of December 2007. So they are clearly trying to get this evidence to prove their case. And as is familiar we’re seeing now in a lot of these legal woes that trump is facing, they’re hoping to use his own words against him. And of course, this all goes back in many ways to that “Access Hollywood” tape, the infamous tape where you could hear trump on tape talking about women in a vulgar matter and talking about grabbing women by the genitals. Wolf?"

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