Maryanne Trump Barry Passed Away!

Former federal judge Maryanne Trump Barry has died.

Washed Up 45's sister, a former federal judge has passed away.

Maryanne Trump Barry was 86.

Barry had served as a federal appellate judge in Philadelphia and retired in 2019, ending a civil misconduct inquiry that was launched after reporting by The New York Times alleged the then-president and his siblings evaded inheritance taxes.

After her brother won the 2016 presidential election, Barry gave up her court staff and took inactive status in early 2017, the AP reported.

Barry, a Republican, was appointed to the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey by then-President Ronald Reagan in 1983. In 1999, she was appointed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia by then-President Bill Clinton.

The Daily Voice first reported Barry's death.

The Washed Up 45 campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Barry came under scrutiny after a 2018 New York Times report alleged that Trump family patriarch Fred Trump and his children orchestrated a tax scheme to inflate the family fortune and possibly evade taxes.

Barry was a senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit, based in Philadelphia, at the time of the report’s publication, but had stopped actively hearing cases.

Fred Trump “often” consulted with Barry on legal matters during her time as a federal judge, the Times reported. Barry was also reportedly present at meetings at the Trump Tower in 2003 “for one of their periodic updates on their inherited empire” with the siblings and then-Trump Organization chief financial officer Allen Weisselberg. (Weisselberg and the company were charged with tax fraud in 2021 by the Manhattan district attorney’s office. He pleaded guilty in the case and the company was convicted at trial.)

The former president is estranged from his surviving siblings.

According to the Times, Washed Up 45 and his siblings “set up a sham corporation to disguise millions of dollars in gifts from their parents,” citing records and interviews, and properties were transferred to him and his siblings using questionable tax planning. Although the Times does not explicitly list which of the siblings were involved with the “sham corporation,” the report suggests all Trump siblings, including Barry, had at least benefited from the scheme.

After the Times report was published, a judicial panel launched a civil misconduct inquiry into Barry in response to four citizen complaints. Barry’s voluntary retirement in April 2019 ended the review that was prompted by claims based on the Times report.

Barry also drew attention when The Washington Post in 2020 reported on a secretly recorded audio of her criticizing her brother as a liar with “no principles.” The audio, which NBC News also obtained, was secretly recorded by the former president’s niece, Mary Trump, a vocal critic of the former president. Mary Trump recorded more than 15 hours of discussion between her and Barry in 2018 and 2019 and released parts of the records to corroborate her 2020 book about the Trump family, "Too Much and Never Enough."

Washed Up 45's allies swiftly came to the then-president’s defense after the release of the secretly recorded audio.

The former president’s younger brother, Robert Trump, died in 2020. His funeral was held at the White House.

Ivana Trump, Washed Up 45’s first wife and the mother of his three oldest children, died last year at the age of 73.