Former US President Donald Trump, who was accused of rape in the 1990s by a journalist, E. Jean Carroll, mistook her for his ex-wife Marla Maples in a photo, according to a court document from an October testimony in New York emerges.
Former US President Donald Trump, 76, is scheduled to appear in a New York court on April 10, 2023 in a defamation lawsuit brought by E. Jean Carroll, 79, who alleges he raped her in a dressing room in a New York ward have loading 1995 or 1996.
A double civil trial for alleged defamation and rape has been fought by former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll against Donald Trump, 76, billionaire businessman and Republican president, since 2019, then 2022, from 2017 to two before the federal courthouse in Manhattan submitted their affidavits last October.
During his Oct. 19 testimony via video link — released this week — Donald Trump reiterated his line of defense: “I will say this with the utmost respect: First, she’s not my type; second, this is not my type; never happened”. But when shown a photo of himself with E. Jean Carroll at a reception in the 1990s, he replied, “This is Marla, this is my wife,” before his own attorney, Alina Habba, corrected him. Donald Trump was married to actress Marla Maples, 59, from 1993 to 1999 and met his current wife, Melania, in 1998.
Donald Trump, who denies raping columnist E. Jean Carroll and says she is “not[his]type,” mistook her for ex-wife Marla Maples during testimony in this photo (she is at left).https:/ /t.co/ohABrQyJt1 pic.twitter.com/AzRZevA5ba
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In the defamation lawsuit, E. Jean Carroll sued Trump in November 2019. She alleges that he defamed her because he called her rape allegations an “outright lie” in June of that year. The then White House tenant always responded that E. Jean Carroll was “not his kind of woman,” and his attorneys claimed he was protected by his immunity as head of state in 2019. As for the rape allegations, E. Jean Carroll was unable to file a complaint in 2019 because the alleged facts were established.
However, on November 24, 2022, a New York state law (“Adult Survivors Act”) went into effect that allows victims of sexual assault to resume their civil suit for one year. The alleged victim therefore filed a new complaint in New York in November for “slander”, but also “assault” and “terror” and applied for a civil trial for damages, which is scheduled to take place on April 10th.