Carroll, 79, filed her lawsuit last year against Trump, 76, claiming he raped her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in 1995 or 1996, and then defamed her by denying it happened. The former Elle magazine advice columnist is seeking unspecified monetary damages.
Her defamation claim concerns an October 2022 post on Trump's Truth Social platform in which he called her allegations a"complete con job" and"a Hoax and a lie". At trial, her lawyers showed jurors a videotape of Trump giving a deposition in which he is shown a picture of him and Carroll together at an event. In the video Trump is seen mistaking Carroll for his former wife, Marla Maples.
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