Donald Trump has agreed to combine two defamation lawsuits filed against him by former magazine columnist ejeancarroll, who accused him of raping her in the 1990s and later sued after he claimed she lied about the allegations.
An attorney for Carroll wrote a letter to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan on Friday to request the separate defamation lawsuits be consolidated into one, noting the move would be crucial to avoid “jury confusion” as both cases focus on the same factual question. If approved, the trial would begin on April 25 and cover damage and liability from both cases.
The agreement marks the latest in a yearslong legal battle brought by Carroll, who sued Trump for defamation in 2019 after he denied claims he had raped her in a New York department store in the mid-1990s. Carroll filed the suit after Trump repeatedly denied the allegations, describing her as “not my type.”Carroll filed a second lawsuit in October after Trump wrote in a Truth Social post that the allegations were a “hoax and a lie.
Trump has vehemently denied raping Carroll, who has accused him of sexually assaulting her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store after an alleged encounter in the mid-1990s. Trump has also pushed back on accusations of defamation, arguing his denial was a fair response to her claims.
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