Lawyers for former President Trump are attempting to block a long-stalled defamation suit by writer E. Jean Carroll by using her successful $5 million verdict in a different case she won against Trump.
The Manhattan federal court filing argues that Trump could not have defamed Carroll by denying her rape accusation in the pending case because a jury in the other caseThe “operative question in this case is, and has always been, whether a rape occurred in the Bergdorf Goodman dressing room," the filing said, and the jury"found that one did not.”in the Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.
Jurors did not speak to reporters after the verdict to explain their decision. Carroll had testified she was attacked from behind and did not see how Trump penetrated her.The first alleged then-President Trump defamed Carroll by calling her claims a"hoax" and a"con job" when she went public in 2019. In a filing last month, Carroll's attorneys sought to amend the earlier lawsuit to add a new defamation claim after TrumpThe proposed amended suit also changed mentions of"rape" to sexual abuse or sexual assault. Trump's filing notes the amended complaint removed 71 uses of the word rape.
"Faced with the Carroll II jury's rejection of her rape accusation, Ms. Carroll now sees to remove nearly every reference of the word 'rape' in her complaint and abandon the narrative she has conveyed to the public for years," Habba said.
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