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Writer E. Jean Carroll arrives as jury selection is due to begin in the libel case against former US President Donald Trump brought by Carroll, who accused him of raping her in the 1990s, before Federal Court in Manhattan, New York on April 25, 2023.
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Writer E. Jean Carroll on Monday filed court documents seeking ‘very substantial’ damages from former President Donald Trump for his scathing remarks about him at a CNN town hall a day after he lost a 5-year lawsuit. million dollars sued by her earlier this month.
Carroll’s decision came as his lawyers asked a federal judge in Manhattan to research judge to seek permission to amend the original defamation lawsuit she filed against Trump in 2019 to reflect her new statements on CNN about him, which they say are also defamatory.
Carroll’s second lawsuit, filed in late 2022 and alleging rape and defamation, ended by a jury in this court after less than three hours of deliberations finding Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. last fall when he denied her allegations.
The writer said Trump raped her in the mid-1990s in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan.
He denies sexually assaulting her, but has made a series of comments over the years accusing her of making up the complaint.
Carroll’s new amended prosecution proposal notes that during his May 10 CNN town hall interview, “Trump falsely stated that he did not sexually abuse Carroll, that he had no idea who was Carroll and that Carroll’s now proven accusation was a ‘false’ and ‘made up story’ created by ‘crazy labor’.”
“Trump also insulted Carroll’s character and downplayed his sexual abuse by asking ‘what kind of woman does someone meet’ and then ‘within minutes’ plays ‘handkerchief in a dressing room,'” the amended complaint states.
If Judge Lewis Kaplan allows Carroll to change his pending lawsuit, it would be the latest example in a series of Trump statements about him adding to his civil legal peril.
Carroll, 79, went public with his allegation against Trump in June 2019 new York magazine article, at a time when he was still president.
She filed her first lawsuit against him in New York State Court in November 2019, claiming he defamed her by saying she was lying and was motivated by a political agenda and desire. to increase sales of a book upon its claims.
The first lawsuit moved to federal court in Manhattan when the Justice Department sought to replace Trump as defendant, on the grounds that he was acting as president when he made the statements. Judge Kaplan refused to let the DOJ stand in Trump’s stead, but appeals of his decision prevented the lawsuit from going all the way to trial.
Carroll filed a second lawsuit in federal court in Manhattan last year, taking advantage of a new New York state law that allowed accusers in sexual assault or misconduct cases to sue prosecution within one year if they would otherwise be barred by the civil statute of limitations.
That second complaint also alleged defamation, citing statements by Trump last fall that repeated his claim that she had made it up to being raped, calling his allegations “completely stupid” and saying that Carroll was not his. “kind”.
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