Permanent record
E. Jean Carroll's public allegation record
- Event date
- Category
- Sexual-misconduct allegations and litigation
- Posture:
- Public allegation later adjudicated in civil proceedings
E. Jean Carroll alleged in a first-person New York magazine excerpt that Trump sexually assaulted her in a department-store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
- Conduct
- Sexual misconduct
Evidence basis
primary-plus-independent
Documented response
Trump denied the allegation, said he had never met Carroll, and continued to contest the resulting civil judgments and damages awards.
Disposition
Separate civil juries later found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarded damages; those adjudications remain separate ledger rows. Civil liability is not a criminal conviction, and the jury did not find rape under the then-applicable New York penal-law definition.
Dated sources
- — New York magazine / The Cut (Original first-person publication)
- — Axios claimant-by-claimant review (Independent reporting and source review)
- — Second Circuit Carroll opinion (Federal appellate opinion reproduction)
Correction status
No substantive correction recorded for this version.
Canonical citation
E. Jean Carroll's public allegation record. Donaldtrumpler.com. https://donaldtrumpler.com/records/2019-06-21-e-jean-carroll-public-allegation/
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