# EDGAR Filing Document

**Accession Number:** 0000794685
**File Stem:** 0001999371-25-015564
**Filing Date:** 2025-10
**Character Count:** 3429
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## Filing Content

## Filing Summary
**0001999371-25-015564.hdr.sgml**: 20251016

**ACCESSION NUMBER**: 0001999371-25-015564

**CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE**: N-23C-2

**PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT**: 1

**CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT**: 20251016

**FILED AS OF DATE**: 20251016

**DATE AS OF CHANGE**: 20251016

**EFFECTIVENESS DATE**: 20251016

**FILER**: 

**COMPANY DATA:**
- **COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:** GABELLI EQUITY TRUST INC
- **CENTRAL INDEX KEY:** 0000794685

**ORGANIZATION NAME:**
- **EIN:** 222736509
- **STATE OF INCORPORATION:** MD
- **FISCAL YEAR END:** 1231

**FILING VALUES:**
- **FORM TYPE:** N-23C-2
- **SEC ACT:** 1940 Act
- **SEC FILE NUMBER:** 817-00171
- **FILM NUMBER:** 251397719

**BUSINESS ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** ONE CORP CENTER
- **CITY:** RYE
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10580
- **BUSINESS PHONE:** 9149215070

**MAIL ADDRESS:**
- **STREET 1:** ONE CORPORATE CENTER
- **CITY:** RYE
- **STATE:** NY
- **ZIP:** 10580-1434

**SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION**

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

**NOTIFICATION OF REDEMPTION OF SECURITIES PURSUANT TO** 

**RULE 23c-2 UNDER THE INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT OF 1940**

Investment Company Act File No. 811-04700

**THE GABELLI EQUITY TRUST INC.**

(Name of Registrant)

**One Corporate Center**

**Rye, New York 10580-1422**

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

**Registrant's Telephone Number, including Area Code: (914) 921-5070**

The undersigned registered closed-end investment company hereby notifies the Securities and Exchange Commission that it intends to redeem securities of which it is the issuer, as set forth below in accordance with the requirements of Rule 23c-2 under the Investment Company Act of 1940 (the "Act"), and states that it is filing this notice with the Commission at least 30 days prior to the date set for the redemption.

**(1) Title of the class of securities of The Gabelli Equity Trust Inc. (the "Fund") to be redeemed:**

5.25% Series N Cumulative Preferred Stock, par value $0.001 per share, and liquidation preference of $100 per share (the "Series N Preferred Stock") (CUSIP #362397820).

**(2) The date on which the securities are to be called or redeemed:**

December 26, 2025.

**(3) The applicable provisions of the governing instrument pursuant to which the securities are to be called or redeemed:**

The Series N Preferred Stock is to be redeemed pursuant to Article I, Section 4(a) of the Fund's Articles Supplementary Creating And Fixing The Rights Of 5.25% Series N Cumulative Preferred Stock.

**(4) The principal amount or number of shares and the basis upon which the securities to be redeemed are to be selected:**

The Fund intends to redeem 100% (319,500 shares) of its outstanding Series N Preferred Stock at the redemption price of $100 per share, which equals the liquidation preference of $100 per share, together with the accumulated and unpaid dividends and distributions to the redemption date of December 26, 2025.

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<u>**SIGNATURE**</u>

Pursuant to the requirement of Rule 23c-2 of the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Fund has duly caused this Notice of Intention to Redeem Securities to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned on this 16<sup>th</sup> day of October 2025.

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| **THE GABELLI EQUITY TRUST INC.** | **THE GABELLI EQUITY TRUST INC.** |
| By: | /s/ John C. Ball |
| Name: | John C. Ball |
| Title: | President and Principal Executive Officer |

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