The first of three bombshell cases facing Donald Trump in his home state will head to trial this week in a civil rape lawsuit brought by writer E. Jean Carroll — including allegations waiting five years to make it before a panel of New Yorkers.
Jury selection starts Tuesday in Manhattan federal court in Carroll’s sexual battery and defamation suit against Trump, who was indicted this month on criminal charges related to hush money payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels and is also the subject of New York Attorney General Letitia James’ $250 million financial fraud lawsuit.
Carroll, 79, alleges that Trump raped her inside a changing room at Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in the fall of 1995 or spring of 1996 after they bumped into each other in a happenstance encounter, and he asked her to help pick out lingerie.
