As a practical matter, how far do you think the plaintiff(s) would get without a criminal conviction? I can think of OJ, but not many other instances. In that case, too, it was a handy change of venue. Regrettably, venue more than the law determines the verdict. IMAGINE suing an Obama Administration official in the DC federal court. ha!
As a practical matter, if she is sued, the plaintiffs would be entitled to discovery of hundreds if not thousands of pages of documents.
Failure to produce them would be a legal admission that what they are alleged to include would be accepted as facts by any court.