The Central Park Five sued Trump for defamation due to statements made during the Harris debate.

• The Central Park Five jogger rape case led to the wrongful conviction of five men, who later sued Donald Trump.
• In Pennsylvania federal court, the men accused in a lawsuit claimed that the Republican presidential candidate falsely stated they were guilty of murder.
• In September, during his debate with Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic nominee, Trump made a claim about the men.

On Monday, five men who were falsely accused of rape as teenagers in the Central Park Five case sued Donald Trump for defamation, alleging that he wrongly claimed they killed someone and pleaded guilty.

In Philadelphia federal court, a lawsuit was filed, accusing Trump of making defamatory remarks about the men during the Sept. 10 debate with Kamala Harris.

The civil suit stated that Defendant Trump falsely claimed that Plaintiffs were responsible for the murder of an individual and pleaded guilty to the crime, despite the statements being demonstrably false.

The complaint stated that the plaintiffs did not plead guilty to any crime and were later exonerated of all charges. Additionally, the victims of the Central Park assaults did not die.

The suit claims that Trump's behavior during the debate was part of a longstanding pattern of extreme and outrageous conduct, making it a continuing tort.

The defendants in the case are Yusef Salaam, Raymond Santana, Kevin Richardson, Antron Brown and Korey Wise. Salaam is a council member in New York City.

The suit, which accuses of defamation, false light, and intentional infliction of emotional distress, seeks damages of over $75,000, with the total compensatory and punitive damages to be determined at trial.

CNBC has requested comment from a spokesman for Trump's campaign.

The lawsuit states that the defendants, who were teenagers at the time, were found guilty of a series of assaults that took place in Central Park, New York City in April 1989. Despite being between 14 and 16 years old, they were sentenced to prison and served time for their convictions.

The suit stated that less than two weeks after the sexual assault on a jogger in the park, Trump paid for a full-page ad in New York newspapers that "implied the assaults in Central Park without mentioning the suspects and urged the City of New York to "[b]ring back the death penalty and bring back our police," the suit noted.

In 2002, the five men were cleared of the charge of raping the jogger due to new DNA evidence.

Over a decade after being falsely arrested and maliciously prosecuted, the men sued New York City for racially motivated conspiracy. The city eventually settled the lawsuit, agreeing to pay the men $41 million.

In two separate lawsuits, Trump was found liable for defaming E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of raping her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. Juries awarded Carroll $88.3 million in damages after trials in those cases.

In Manhattan federal court, Trump is challenging the decisions made in those cases.

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