{
  "id": 17468501,
  "title": "Trump’s $10 Billion Defamation Lawsuit Against WSJ, Murdoch Dismissed With Prejudice",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/31/trumps-10-billion-defamation-lawsuit-against-wsj-murdoch-dismissed",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-31T20:12:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "TheWrap",
    "slug": "thewrap",
    "url": "https://www.thewrap.com/industry-news/public-policy-legal/trump-wall-street-journal-murdoch-defamation-lawsuit-dismissed-epstein/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "President Donald Trump's $10 billion defamation lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal and publisher Rupert Murdoch has been dismissed with prejudice, effectively ending the year-long legal battle. Judge Darrin P. Gayles ruled that Trump failed to prove any defamatory comments were made with actual malice, dismissing his first amended complaint. The lawsuit began in July 2025 after the Journal published what Trump claimed were his 50th birthday messages to Jeffrey Epstein from 2003, which he later amended in April 2026 after the initial suit was dismissed for being \"nowhere close\" to defamation. Trump's team was described as \"grasping at straws\" in an attempt to \"manufacture\" flaws in the initial WSJ report.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}