Tehran 10 January_A longtime Elle magazine advice columnist may proceed with her lawsuit accusing US President Donald Trump of defamation for denying he raped her approximately 24 years ago in a Manhattan department store, a New York state judge has ruled.
TEHRAN, Young Journalists Club(YJC)-In a decision this week, Justice Doris Ling-Cohan of the state supreme court in Manhattan said Trump failed to show that the judge lacked jurisdiction to hear plaintiff E. Jean Carroll’s claims, or that Carroll’s efforts to gather evidence should be temporarily put on hold.
“Although defendant Trump, through his counsel, claims lack of personal jurisdiction, notably, there is not even a tweet, much less an affidavit by defendant Trump in support of his motion,” the judge wrote.
Lawyers for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
They had said Trump made his alleged defamatory statements in Washington, D.C., his home since becoming president in January 2017, and therefore could not be sued in New York.
Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for Carroll, said in a statement on Thursday: “We look forward to moving ahead in this case and proving that Donald Trump lied when he told the world that he did not rape our client and had not even met her.”
Carroll went public last June with her account of the alleged rape in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, which she said occurred between the fall of 1995 and spring of 1996.
The account was published in New York magazine, excerpted from her memoir released in July.
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