A former contestant on the reality show "The Apprentice" filed a defamation lawsuit Tuesday against President-elect Donald Trump over his response to her allegations that he groped her during a job interview in 2007.

Summer Zervos, a California restaurant owner who appeared on the show in 2006, accused Trump of aggressively kissing and grabbing her when she went to his bungalow at the Beverly Hills Hotel to discuss a possible job at the Trump Organization a year later.

In her suit, Zervos alleges that Trump defamed her when he denied her account of their interactions in the hotel room, accusing her and other women who made similar accusations of lying and fabricating their accounts. Zervos said she would drop her lawsuit, which was filed in New York, without seeking monetary damages if Trump would retract his claim that she lied and acknowledge his actions.

On the one hand, Trump will want this lawsuit to go away to avoid opening a Pandora's box.  On the other, his YOOOOGE ego will prevent him from retracting his statements.

Which "Friends" Character Are You?

You got: Rachel

Dr. Starr chronicled the state's rise and influence in national life, and its perpetual grip on the general public's imagination, in a sweeping and critically acclaimed multi-volume series called "Americans and the California Dream," from its transfer of sovereignty from Mexico to the United States in 1848 and the subsequent Gold Rush, to the Progressive Era, the 1920s, the Great Depression, the Second World War and other colorful chapters of California's past.

His books were a celebration of the state's creativity, its innovation and openness to ideas, covering in considerable detail and depth a vast array of topics critical to California's development and image of itself, whether in architecture, agriculture, industry, commerce, literature, water infrastructure, environment or arts & entertainment.

"No other historian has been able to capture California's exceptionalism, its vitality and its promise in such detail and yet invest it with the immediacy and excitement of a page-turning novel. Kevin Starr's love for California and his breadth of knowledge about the Golden State's magic and unique diversity was obvious not just in his speeches and lectures as a professor, but also in casual conversation."
- Greg Lucas, California State Librarian, on the occeasion of his predecessor's passing (January 15, 2017)

London's disclosure of the infamous Zimmerman Telegram had its intended effect in the U.S., as American public opinion was enraged, particularly when Greman Foreign Secretary Arthur Zimmerman confirmed on March 3, 1917 that the diplomatic message was real and its content was as the British claimed it to be. Relations between Mexico and the U.S. were generally hostile at the time, and the Germans sought to exploit the bad blood between the two neighbors for their own purposes.

One month later on April 6, the United States declared war on Imperial Germany and entered the war. The Carranza government in Mexico wisely remained neutral.