A woman who accused the United
States of America’s President Donald Trump of raping her more than 23 years ago
in a New York department store sued him on Monday over statements he made in
June denying that the attack occurred and criticizing her for coming forward.
E. Jean Carroll, a longtime Elle
magazine advice columnist, said in a complaint filed in a New York state court
in Manhattan that Trump lied about attacking her, and “smeared her integrity,
honesty, and dignity” by concocting a “swarm of related lies” to explain why
she would make the incident up.
Carroll’s account of the alleged
rape at Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue, which she said occurred between the
autumn of 1995 and spring of 1996, had been published in New York magazine in
June, excerpted from her memoir released the following month.
“The lawsuit is frivolous and the
story is a fraud – just like the author,” White House Press Secretary Stephanie
Grisham said in a statement. “The story she used to try and sell her trash book
never happened, period.”
Carroll’s lawsuit followed
statements that Trump made after her account was published, including that he
did not rape Carroll and had never met her, and that she was “totally lying” as
part of an effort to boost book sales.
“I’ll say it with great respect:
Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, it never happened. It never
happened, OK?” he told The Hill newspaper in Washington.
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