Donald Trump, E. Jean Carroll, John Johnson and Ivana Trump at an NBC party, late 1980s.
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Former President Donald Trump recently mistook rape accuser E. Jean Carroll for his ex-wife Marla Maples when questioned by her attorney about a decades-old photo of him and Carroll because libel lawsuit, a New court records made public Shows.
Trump’s Faith that the writer Carroll was actually his second wife, Maples strongly undercut the New York real estate mogul’s repeated claims that he wouldn’t even have sex with Carroll because of her He’s “not my type.”
Carol, 79 years old, first accused in a 2019 magazine article that Trump, then president, raped her in the dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in 1995 or 1996 after a chance encounter in the door. row.
Trump, 76, refused her request, accused Carroll of lying. He also said Carroll was motivated by a desire to sell a book and was politically motivated when making the allegations.
“She’s not my type,” Trump said The Hill news site 2019.
Carroll is suing Trump, who is seeking the Republican presidential nomination in 2024, in two lawsuits in federal court in Manhattan for allegedly defaming her by characterizing him to her statements and her purported motives. One case was filed in 2019, after Trump first denied her allegations, and a second was filed this fall, after he repeated his statement about her motives. she.
In the most recent case, she’s also suing him for the offense, for the rape itself, under a new New York state law that opens up a one-year time limit for adults to file sexual abuse complaints. education that would otherwise be too old to pursue. because of the statute of limitations.
19 hearing at his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida, announced Wednesday, Trump was shown a photo from an NBC event circa 1987 .
The image shows him from behind, facing Carroll and her then-husband, television journalist John Johnson, with then-wife Trump, trying to Ivan Trump stand to his right.
“That’s Marla,” Trump said of the photo.
Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said: “Are you saying that Marla is in this photo?”
Trump replied: “That’s Marla, that’s right. That’s my wife.”
Real estate mogul, reality TV star and potential former presidential candidate Donald Trump is first married to former Czech athlete Ivana Trump. After 15 years of marriage, the couple had a very public and messy divorce in 1992 that cost him . This might turn a low-key man away from dating, but “The Donald” doesn’t shrink purple. A year later, he has a new bride in his arms, actress and social activist Marla Maples, 17 years younger than him. In 1997, the coup d’etat
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His attorney Alina Habba then interjected, “No, that’s Carroll.”
Trump said, “Oh, I get it.”
Kaplan then said, “The person you just pointed to is E. Jean Carroll.”
When Habba repeated to Trump, “That’s Carroll,” he replied, “Is that Carroll?”
Elsewhere in the testimony, Trump said of Carroll, “She’s not my type.”
“She’s not a woman I’ve ever been attracted to,” he added later.
The deposition was attached to a court filing by Carroll’s lawyers last week, but was made public on Wednesday after Trump’s lawyers dropped their objection to it being made public.
Last week, Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered other parts of the affidavit unsealed, ruling that Trump had no good reason to keep them out of public record in the case.
Trump married Maples in 1993, months after their daughter Tiffany was born. The couple began their romantic relationship while Trump was still married to Ivana, divorcing six years later.
Trump married his current wife, Melania Trump, in 2005.
Kaplan has set the trial of Carroll’s cases to begin in April.
