Marion McKeone: Trump rape trial casts spotlight on former president’s misogyny
A civil lawsuit filed by former Elle columnist E Jean Carroll has heard evidence of a pattern of misbehaviour towards women
“Hey, you’re that advice lady.”
“Hey, you’re that real-estate tycoon.”
The banter between two high-flying, middle-aged New Yorkers during a chance encounter in an upscale Fifth Avenue department store sounds like a scene from a Nora Ephron rom-com.
What followed is a case study in why women are so reluctant to involve the courts and the criminal justice system when they are sexually assaulted or raped by an acquaintance.
During the civil lawsuit currently taking place in a Manhattan courtroom, the author and former Elle advice columnist E Jean Carroll provided a harrowing and detailed account of the rape that allegedly followed.
