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A veteran New York lifestyle journalist in a first-person essay published Friday says Donald Trump raped her in a dressing room at a ritzy Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s — one of the most serious accusations of sexual assault ever lobbed against the president.
E. Jean Carroll, best known for hosting a namesake talk show on NBC between 1994 and 1996, made the claim in New York magazine.
Carroll, now 75, said the rape took place in the fall of 1995 or spring 1996 while she was shopping at Bergdorf Goodman.
Trump — who has been accused of sexual misconduct by at least 19 women and has himself bragged on tape about his proclivity for grabbing women’s genitals — vehemently denied Carroll’s allegation via a White House spokesman.
“This is a completely false and unrealistic story surfacing 25 years after allegedly taking place and was created simply to make the president look bad,” the spokesman said.