Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll, John Johnson and Ivana Trump at an NBC party in the late 1980s.
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former President Donald Trump Recently, his rape accuser E. Gene Carroll was mistaken for his ex-wife Marla Maples when his attorney questioned him about a decade-old photo of him and Carroll. defamation sue, a new public court filing shows.
Trump’s confidence That author Carroll was actually his second wife, Maples, underscores the New York real estate mogul’s repeated claims that he may not even have had sex with Carroll because she was “not my type.”
carol, 79, first accused A 2019 magazine article said Trump, who was then president, had raped her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in 1995 or 1996 after an encounter in the store.
Trump, 76, denied his claims, Carroll is accused of lying. He also said that Carroll was motivated in making the allegations by a desire to sell a book and create political animus.
“She’s not my type,” Trump told The Hill News site in 2019.
Carroll is suing Trump, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, in two cases in federal court in Manhattan for allegedly defaming her by characterization of her claims and her alleged motivations. One case was filed in 2019, after Trump first denied her allegations, and another was filed this fall, after she reiterated her claims about his motivation.
In the most recent case, she’s also on trial for battery for alleged rape under a new New York state law that opens a one-year window for adults to file sexual assault claims that would otherwise go ahead. Will be too old to grow up. Due to statute of limitations.
During an October 19 statement at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, which was made public on Wednesday, Trump was shown a photo from an NBC program circa 1987.
The image shows her from behind, facing Trump’s then-wife, Carole, with the late and her then-husband, television journalist John Johnson ivana trump is standing to his right.
Regarding the photo, Trump said, “It’s Marla.”
Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said, “You’re saying that’s Marla in this picture?”
Trump replied: “She’s Marla, yes. She’s my wife.”
Real estate mogul, reality television star and former potential presidential candidate Donald Trump was first married to Czech former athlete Ivana Trump. After 15 years of marriage, the pair had a very public and very messy divorce in 1992, which cost them their fortune. It may discourage dating a lesser man again, but “The Donald” is no shrinking violet. A year later he had a new bride on his arm in the form of actress and socialite Marla Maples, who was 17 years his junior. In 1997, the coup
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His attorney Alina Habba then interrupted, “No, that’s Carroll.”
Trump said, “Oh, I see.”
Kaplan then said, “The person you pointed to was E. Jean Carroll.”
When Hubba repeated to Trump, “That’s Carroll,” he replied, “That’s Carroll?”
Elsewhere in the statement, Trump said of Carroll, “She’s not my type.”
“She is not a woman I would ever be attracted to,” he later added.
It was linked to a statement filed in court last week by Carroll’s lawyers, but became public on Wednesday after Trump’s lawyers dropped their opposition to it being made public.
Last week, Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered other parts of the statement unsealed, ruling that Trump did not have a valid reason to keep them out of the public record in the case.
Trump married Maples in 1993, several months after the birth of their daughter, Tiffany. The couple, who began their romantic relationship when Trump was still married to Ivana, divorced six years later.
In 2005, Trump married his current wife, Melania Trump.
Kaplan begins hearing Carroll’s lawsuit in April.