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EXCLUSIVE: Troubled woman with a history of drug use who claimed that she was assaulted by Donald Trump at a Jeffrey Epstein sex party at age 13 MADE IT ALL UP
- On Friday, a lawsuit filed against Donald Trump by 'Katie Johnson' was dramatically dropped
- Speculation that the suit was dropped because of threats or a pay-off by Trump went viral
- But DailyMail.com has learned that the claims against Trump were fiction
- 'Katie Johnson's' shocking allegations first emerged in a lawsuit filed in California in April
- She claimed she was lured to a sex party by pedophile Jeffrey Epstein where she was forced into rough role-play sex with presidential candidate
- On Wednesday Johnson suddenly cancelled a press conference at which she was set to reveal herself for the first time
- Before that, she told her story to DailyMail.com
- Clinton supporters had seized on the story as a possible knock out blow
The woman who alleged that
Donald Trump raped her at age 13 at one of billionaire pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's notorious 'sex parties' fabricated the story, DailyMail.com has learned exclusively.
When the civil suit was initially filed last April, Trump's legal team branded the allegations 'disgusting at the highest level' and a 'hoax' clearly framed to 'solicit media attention or, perhaps... simply politically motivated'.
Clinton supporters had seized on the story as a possible knock out blow.
Then, last Wednesday, Katie Johnson suddenly cancelled a packed press conference at which she was set to reveal herself for the first time, saying she was 'too afraid' following a series of 'threats' against her.
On Friday, six months after legal papers were filed, the civil lawsuit was dramatically dropped.
Social media erupted with claims that the woman had been paid off by Trump or was so terrified by threats to her life from Trump supporters that she was forced to withdraw her claims.
But DailyMail.com has learned that the real reason the suit was dropped is because the claims were simply NOT true.
The woman first sued Trump and Jeffrey Epstein under the name Katie Johnson - a name we know not to be her real identity - on April 26 in California federal court and filed an amended complaint in New York federal court in October, claiming she was subject to rape, criminal sexual acts, assault, battery and false imprisonment.
The court papers offered no corroborative evidence that her claims were true.
News that the allegations were dropped dismayed Hillary supporters who had hoped the claims would be the knock out blow for Trump's
election campaign - already rocked in recent weeks by a string of sex assault claims.
Thousands of loyal Hillary followers had opened a discussion about the rape claims on Twitter and other social media networks hoping to damage Trump's push for the White House.
The Huffington Post jumped on the bandwagon of anti-Trump sentiment after she made her claims, asking: 'Donald Trump Is Accused Of Raping A 13-Year-Old. Why Haven't The Media Covered It?'