NEW YORK (Reuters) – A onetime Elle magazine columnist who accused Donald Trump of raping her more than a quarter-century ago plans to file a new lawsuit against the former U.S. president over the incident, her lawyer said.
E. Jean Carroll plans to bring claims of battery and intentional infliction of emotional distress under a New York law giving adult survivors of sexual misconduct a one-year window to bring civil claims that would otherwise be time-barred, Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said in a letter filed on Tuesday.
Trump has denied raping Carroll and accused her of concocting the rape claim to sell her book.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Chris Reese)
