I was young, fresh out of college, and had a great job that permitted shopping jaunts there in between trips to the Met and meetings at the United Nations. Not all of Carroll's details entirely add up. The women he was interested in then were young models and beauty queens. For nearly 30 years she has been the author of an eponymous advice column for Elle, the longest-running such column in the country. I’m a longtime reader of E’s, since she started the Ask E. Jean Column in the ’90s. Prominent advice columnist E. Jean Carroll has alleged that Donald Trump sexually assaulted her more than 20 years ago during an encounter in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room. Writer E. Jean Carroll has accused Donald Trump of violently sexually assaulting her in the mid-'90s. At the time, Carroll was the host of a cable advice show. “Regarding the ‘story’ by E. Jean Carroll, claiming she once encountered me at Bergdorf Goodman 23 years ago. She had on what she called sturdy but spiked heels, also seen in her, Next up, the security cameras. Nope. … It’s just as bad for people to believe it, particularly when there is zero evidence.”. (Which would have been about as close to Trump Tower (built 1983) as Bergdorf's. The altercation took three minutes or less, she wrote. Why would Trump pick such a place to shop for lingerie when there were so many other competitors with far bigger selections, starting with Saks down the street? Carroll describes Trump as all handsome and confident in her 1996 Bergdorf's encounter. It's easy to believe a story about him groping her in an elevator, because he did this sort of thing to so many others. Contribute. President Trump also said "it never happened" in response to an allegation from writer E. Jean Carroll that he sexually assaulted her in a dressing room in the mid-90s. It was trying to stay above water like almost everything else in New York at the end of the Dinkins era which meant lots of markdowns for people like me. E Jean Carroll, One of America's best known advice columnists claims that she was raped by Donald Trump inside a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in the mid-90s. It's possible she's telling the truth, but her memory may be mixing things up a little. If you would like to opt out of browser push notifications, please refer to the following instructions specific to your device and browser: Noted Advice Columnist Says Trump Raped Her in Manhattan Department Store in the '90s — 'Never Happened,' Trump Responds. I bought baby clothes on the 6th floor for friends and relatives with new babies (how I loved sending those Bergdorf packages, exquisitely packed, with really fancy baby dresses!) E. Jean Carroll and her harrowing account and allegation of Trump violently assaulting her in the 80's should be a major story, not just for today, but for weeks to come. Her account seems to be a mixture of truth and fiction. E Jean Carroll has accused President Donald Trump of raping her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s Photograph: John Minchillo/AP R e u t e r s Fri 15 Jan 2021 22.49 EST In a lengthy statement released by the White House, Trump denied Carroll’s allegation as he has similarly and steadfastly denied the other women’s accounts. I bought baby clothes on the 6th floor for friends and relatives with new babies (how I loved sending those Bergdorf packages, exquisitely packed, with really fancy baby dresses!) The Trump administration has denied the whole thing as "completely false.". Longtime advice columnist and former TV host E. Jean Carroll on Friday became the latest woman — in a group that now numbers more than a dozen — to accuse President Donald Trump of assault or misconduct. E. Jean travels with her dog, a standard poodle named Lewis Carroll, in a Prius that she calls Miss Bingley (after the mean girl in Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice”). The idea that it would be packed with evening gowns and bathing suits sounds like a Macys department store set-up, not a Bergdorf's one. E. Jean Carroll's Friends Confirm She Told Them of Sexual Assault by Donald Trump in the '90s More than a dozen women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, which he denies Published June 27, 2019 • Updated on June 27, 2019 at 1:36 pm. E. Jean Carroll (1995 or 1996) This section needs to be updated. His statement continued: “Shame on those who make up false stories of assault to try to get publicity for themselves, or sell a book, or carry out a political agenda. I know a woman that Trump flirted with in 1996 who was quite a bit younger and far more of a "looker." First, the accurate stuff: Her picture of herself in the outfit she was wearing at the time does look pretty much like the fashion of the time among the Bergdorf shoppers - a black Donna Karan coatdress, inky black tights, high heels. “He raped you. Alva Johnson, a former Trump campaign staffer, earlier this year sued Trump, claiming he forcibly kissed her in August 2016. “False accusations diminish the severity of real assault,” Trump said. ... and working in the ’60s, ’70s, ’80s, and ’90s, when a woman could scarcely walk down the street without getting hit on or take a job without being underpaid. Sure enough, this retail history shows that the lingerie department barely existed at the time, it was on the, « Joe Biden can’t keep his story straight, Incredible hypocrisy as Democrats demand Trump be arrested once he leaves office ». In an excerpt from her forthcoming book, published in New York magazine, Carroll wrote that Trump raped her in Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan in the mid ’90s. I don't even remember a lingerie department in those years. But lingerie? Elizabeth Jean Carroll (born December 12, 1943) is an American journalist and advice columnist. Writer E Jean Carroll Accuses Donald Trump, Les Moonves of Sexual Attacks in the Mid-’90s Both men deny accusations Sean Burch | June 21, 2019 @ … Columnist E. Jean Carroll Says Trump Sexually Assaulted Her in the 90s. Sure enough, this retail history shows that the lingerie department barely existed at the time, it was on the 2nd floor with the men's wear. In the excerpt from her upcoming book, E. Jean Carroll says Donald Trump assaulted her at … She reiterated that Trump assaulted her in the '90s. He was buying beauty contests at the time. Coyote Ugly Turns 20: Where Is the Cast Now? Mostly, the style looks about right. In a cover story for New York magazine, an excerpt from her book "What Do We Need Men For? The really nice but sturdy spiked heels she has on could have dated from the late 1980s, possibly Calvin Kleins. And she's not staying steady - she's now alternating between charges of assault and actual rape. He's also been accused of sexual misbehavior, often just bad talk, not acts, but there's never been any substantiation. I find it hard to believe - he wasn't bulletproof financially at the time. She had on what she called sturdy but spiked heels, also seen in her picture. Her hazy encounter with its serious charges (which are now shifting to look at Twitter) has the look of piling on, riding from other women's unsubstantiated accusations as if to score a political point. Lots of attention on that. I’ve never met this person in my life. Astrid Stawiarz/Getty; NICHOLAS KAMM/AFP/Getty I. Welcome to a meta edition of Five Rules For Life in which famed advice columnist E. Jean Carroll of ELLE shares even more advice with R18 readers! Credit: She is trying to sell a new book — that should indicate her motivation,” Trump said. “I am so shocked I shove him back and start laughing again. She looks like a wealthy housewife. Noted magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll says President Donald Trump raped her in the '90s, joining more than a dozen other women who have accused him of assault or misconduct. Markdowns and sales were pretty common at the time, even with its fancy store veneer but if you knew where to look, the place could be quite affordable. They are fuzzy and imprecise. That's pretty questionable, actually. Despite Trump’s claim he “never met” Carroll, there is a photo of him with her published in the New York piece. Noted magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll says Donald Trump raped her in the '90s, joining more than a dozen women who accused him of assault or misconduct “This never happened and is directly contradicted by multiple highly credible eyewitness accounts.”, RELATED: 7 Women Who Accused Trump, Including PEOPLE Writer, Tell Their Stories Onstage — ‘I Feel Triumphant’, Johnson’s suit referenced Stoynoff’s story and accusations by other women that the president has forcibly kissed them — which the suit described as “a pattern of predatory behavior towards women.”, Separately, Trump’s first wife, Ivana Trump, accused him of raping her in the late ’80s but later recanted. Her story echoes multiple other women who have accused Trump of assault or misconduct dating back decades. Would down-at-the-heels dowdy Bergdorf's have been the first customer? Elaine Low Senior TV Writer. Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll is selling a book of her steamy sexual misadventures and sure enough, there's a story about how Donald Trump, circa 1995 or 1996, raped the writer in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York, a pretty extreme charge buried under a big pile of stories about men who supposedly exploited her. Eventually the two made their way to the store’s lingerie section and into a dressing room where, according to Carroll, she believed she would succeed in having Trump jokingly try on a piece of women’s clothing. Trump was a billionaire on the outs at the time. More history of the use of security cameras, particularly on the 'prevent shoplifting' angle (which would have been likely used in more mass market department stores, not Bergdorf's with its locked dressing room doors) is worth looking into. An uncomfortable Anderson Cooper quickly went to commercial during an interview Monday night with the latest Trump sexual assault accuser, E. Jean Carroll… Last week, a story broke in New York Magazine (which was actually an excerpt from an upcoming book) claiming that President Donald Trump committed rape in a dressing room back in the mid-90s. “It is a disgrace and people should pay dearly for such false accusations,” he said. She said in a statement that while she “felt violated” at the time and “referred to this as a ‘rape’ … I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense.”, In a 2015 statement, she said, in part, “Donald and I are the best of friends and together have raised 3 children that we love and are very proud of.”, Asked in May 2016 about his ex-wife’s charge of rape, Trump told PEOPLE: “It never took place.”. Would, There's also the details about the lingerie department, which, Carroll says, was probably with the evening gowns and bathing suits. However, two unnamed friends of Carroll’s confirmed to New York that she told them what happened at the time. Her "Ask E. Jean" column appeared in Elle magazine from 1993 through 2019 and was ranked one of the five best magazine columns (along with Anthony Lane of The New Yorker and Lewis Lapham of Harper's Magazine) by the Chicago Tribune in 2003.. (February 2020) On November 4, 2019, writer E. Jean Carroll filed a lawsuit against Trump, accusing him of defamation by claiming she lied. She wrote that she did not report the incident to police and there were no witnesses; Bergdorf Goodman said they had no security footage from that time period, according to New York. I find it hard to believe. “All should condemn false accusations and any actual assault in the strongest possible terms.”. We’ll go together.”. One thing is pretty sure though: 1996 was one of the last pre-Internet era years out there, and IP security cameras seen now only came on the market in 1996. So … we may proceed to No. In a first-person account published in PEOPLE in 2016, Stoynoff recalled the incident while alone with Trump at a room in his club. I also own all of her books (“Hunter: The Strange And Savage Life Of Hunter S. Thompson” is a favorite) and am unapologetically a gigantic super fan of hers. “The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips,” she wrote. And yep, I shopped there all the time. In the days since E. Jean Carroll said that she was assaulted over 20 years ago by Donald Trump, she has been questioned and scrutinized for both … The idea that it would be packed with evening gowns and bathing suits sounds like a Macys department store set-up, not a Bergdorf's one. And would Carroll have been the woman he would choose? It’s a lie,” Trump has said of Stoynoff.). I had to look it up. “And I say … ‘Hey, you’re that real-estate tycoon!’ ”, The two had met before, Carroll wrote. Please update this article to reflect recent events or newly available information. But a lot of things are easy to look up, and it's possible to see contradictions and near contradictions to what she's saying. She never went public even in the heat of the election back when everyone was trying to take Trump down or even moreso in the bitter aftermath. I remember she sent me emails about it because she was disgusted that he was married, but all the same, he never went beyond flirting; flirtaciousness was actually his limit for those not giving him any encouragement. President Donald Trump denied allegations of sexual assault after magazine advice columnist E. Jean Carroll said he had attacked her at a New York luxury department store in … Find out what your cat is trying to tell you with a new cat app, Princess Diana died when Harry was just 12 years old, Engineer Creates App To Translate Your Cat, The Sweetest Photos of Princes Harry with Diana, Sean Connery's Cause of Death Revealed Weeks After He Dies at Age 90. Maybe that's why she placed her encounter with him at the bottom of her list, as a writer, she would know that you always put your strongest material first. You'll get the latest updates on this topic in your browser notifications. It's fair to say that memories fade, not all of mine are precise, either. Her description of the incident meets the legal definition of rape. Go to the police! He was bankrupt, and far from looking all handsome as she described, he looked shambling and seedy in 1996, according to, But the shoes I wonder about. I bought pretty much everything from Bergdorf - the designer stuff on sale on the 6th floor (man, did I score on the Donna Karan! Writer E. Jean Carroll Says Les Moonves, Donald Trump Assaulted Her in ’90s By Elaine Low. IAN LANGSDON/POOL/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock. He seizes both my arms and pushes me up against the wall a second time, and, as I become aware of how large he is, he holds me against the wall with his shoulder and jams his hand under my coat dress and pulls down my tights.”, Carroll continued: “The next moment, still wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens [my] overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, thrusts his penis halfway — or completely, I’m not certain — inside me.”. Meanwhile, I used to be the most enthusiastic of Bergdorf shoppers at that time. I recall wearing similar, a leopard-print Bergdorf labeled coatdress or sometimes a longish Philip Adec black wool blazer (with a second Bergdorf tag sewed in) over a black miniskirt with the black tights, too. E Jean Carroll among two-dozen who claim Mr Trump sexually assaulted them Support us. Next up, the security cameras. “Within seconds he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat,” she said then. Would someone like that have gone all criminally violent with some woman he didn't know to add to his legal troubles? A Modest Proposal, Carroll recalled allegedly running into Trump in the department store in Manhattan in either late 1995 or early 1996 and his subsequent attack on her in a dressing room. and I bought beautiful notebooks and vases and fancy candies on the 7th floor. 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