Rape allegation against former US President Trump heads to civil trial
Carroll, a former columnist for Elle magazine, says she was raped by Trump in the changing room at the luxury Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in the mid-1990s. Writer and columnist E. Jean Carroll, (L), has accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of rape. NEW YORK: Jury selection is scheduled to start Tuesday in a civil trial pitting Donald Trump against a prominent former American columnist, who says he raped her in the 1990s. E. Jean Carroll, 79, says Trump sexually assaulted her in a New York department store and then defamed her after she went public with the allegations years later. Trump, who is facing a slew of legal woes that threaten to derail his 2024 run for a second term in the White House, denies the allegations. The start of the trial comes just weeks after his historic arraignment on criminal charges related to a hush-money payment made to a porn star just before the 2016 election. Carroll, a former columnist for Elle magazine, says s...