Summer Zervos, center, with attorneys Mariann Meier Wang, left, and Gloria Allred, as they take questions from reporters following a December hearing in Zervos' defamation suit against President Donald Trump. Photo: Andrew Denney/NYLJ

President Donald Trump's lawyers are asking a New York state appeals court to throw out or freeze a defamation lawsuit by a former contestant on “The Apprentice” who has accused Trump of unwanted kissing and groping.

Notice of the appeal was filed Sunday.

Trump's lawyers are challenging a Manhattan judge's refusal last month to halt the lawsuit by former “Apprentice” contestant Summer Zervos.