Overview

• Maryanne Trump Barry, a retired federal judge and the older sister of former President Donald Trump, has died at the age of 86 at her home in Manhattan.
• Barry was first appointed to the U.S. District Court of New Jersey in 1983 by then-President Ronald Reagan, and then to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, in Philadelphia, by then-President Bill Clinton in 1999.
• She retired in 2019 amid an investigation into her family’s tax practices.
• In 2020, Barry’s niece, Mary Trump, revealed that she had secretly recorded her aunt while promoting a book that denounced the former president. In the recordings, Barry could be heard sharply criticizing her brother, at one point saying the former president “has no principles” and is “cruel.”
• Donald Trump acknowledged in a post on his social media platform Truth Social that his decision to run for president in 2016 made his sister's life difficult, accusing the media of going after her mercilessly.