A former Apprentice contestant who accused Donald Trump of unwanted kissing and groping has kicked off her defamation suit by demanding her own phone records, DailyMail.com can reveal.
Summer Zervos believes the data could prove crucial in her bid to prove the President defamed her by calling her a liar and dismissing her claims of sexual misconduct as 'another hoax.'
Attorneys for the 46-year-old have drawn up subpoenas demanding that AT&T hand over all 'paper and/or other forms of saved, older records dating back to 2007', raising questions that there may have been compromising conversations between her and Trump.
Zervos claims Trump first forced himself on her at a job interview in Manhattan's Trump Tower in 2007 then weeks later thrust his genitals against her and groped her breasts during a meeting in LA.
The President's legal team have opted not to contest the application filed on Wednesday at New York Supreme Court.
Summer Zervos, a former Apprentice contestant who accused Donald Trump of unwanted kissing and groping, has kicked off her defamation suit by demanding her own phone records
Attorneys for the 46-year-old have drawn up subpoenas demanding that AT&T hand over all 'paper and/or other forms of saved, older records dating back to 2007', perhaps to show compromising conversations she had with Trump
But the move is merely the opening move in what will likely be a bitterly contested legal bid to see a sitting US President called into court for sworn questioning.
Zervos got the green light to sue Trump in the summer of 2018 after a state court judge denied a motion to dismiss her suit but the President's attorney appealed the decision.
The Appellate Division, First Department ruled in the California-based businesswoman's favor last week when Justice Dianne Renwick noted that 'the President is still a person, and he is not above the law'.
The ruling means Zervos' lawyers can proceed – and may get the chance to grill Trump under oath about whether he defamed her by calling her a liar.
'We look forward to proving to a jury that Ms. Zervos told the truth about defendant's unwanted sexual groping and holding him accountable for his malicious lies,' her lawyer, Mariann Wang, told reporters.
Zervos, a Republican who appeared on The Apprentice in 2006, accused Trump of kissing her against her will at a 2007 meeting in New York, and later groping her at a Beverly Hills hotel.
She was among the more than dozen women who came forward to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct after the infamous 'grab them by the p***y' Access Hollywood clip that emerged during the 2016
