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NEW YORK, March 17 (Reuters) - Former President Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll have agreed to a single trial on whether Trump defamed the former Elle magazine columnist by denying he raped her in the mid-1990s. Carroll has been pursuing separate lawsuits over those statements, with the first scheduled for trial on April 10. Carroll sued again three years later after Trump called the rape claim a "hoax," "lie," "con job" and "complete scam" in a social media post. Both sides proposed asking that court on April 17 to defer any decision until the trial is over. The cases are Carroll v. Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, Nos.

☆ Trump cannot exclude 'Access Hollywood' tape from rape accuser's trial
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-10 | by ( Jonathan Stempel | Industry Insight | What A Law Firm Client Development Manager Says About Client Listening Programs | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +3 min

Carroll sought to introduce an excerpt from the tape, which was recorded in 2005 and where Trump boasted about forcing himself on women, as evidence that Trump had a propensity for sexual assaults comparable to hers. In the "Access Hollywood" excerpt, Trump graphically described his unsuccessful attempt to have a sexual encounter with a married woman, and described himself as being attracted to beautiful women. The tape was released in October 2016 and threatened to upend Trump's White House run. Kaplan also rejected Trump's bid to exclude testimony from two other women who claimed he sexually assaulted them, and evidence that Carroll suffered emotional harm. The cases are Carroll v. Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, Nos.

[1/3] Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Florence Regional Airport in Florence, South Carolina, U.S., March 12, 2022. Trump said his post was "clearly about" and merely repeated his formal response to the first lawsuit, and was therefore covered by "absolute litigation privilege" under New York law, dooming the defamation claim. Carroll's lawsuit also includes a battery claim under New York's Adult Survivors Act, which lets sexual abuse victims sue their attackers even if statutes of limitations have run out. A Washington appeals court is deciding whether Trump should be immune from Carroll's first lawsuit, but not her second, because he was acting as president when he spoke. The case is Carroll v. Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No.

[1/2] Former U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during a rally at Florence Regional Airport in Florence, South Carolina, U.S., March 12, 2022. Kaplan said Trump's offer would "almost certainly" delay a scheduled April 25 trial and unduly harm Carroll, who has long accused Trump of stalling. Joseph Tacopina, who joined Trump's legal team two weeks ago, and Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan declined to comment. Carroll originally sought Trump's DNA to compare against a dress she said she wore when the alleged rape occurred. The second lawsuit came in November after Trump repeated his denial, using similar language, in a social media post the prior month.

A former Fox News employee sued the network Wednesday, alleging that the late Fox News chairman and CEO Roger Ailes sexually abused her for years. Ailes allegedly made it clear that if she tried to speak out or stop the abuse, Luhn would experience “severe personal humiliation and career ruin,” according to the suit. Luhn says in the suit that in 2011 she sent a letter to Fox’s general counsel detailing Ailes’ abuse. The suit says the network withheld over 30% of the payment for taxes. The sexual abuse that she suffered while working at Fox News was some of the worst imaginable,” said Luhn’s attorney, Barbara Whiten Balliette, a partner at Reid Collins & Tsai LLP.

☆ A former Fox News staffer said Roger Ailes told her she was his 'sex slave' and took videos of the abuse to use as 'blackmail,' but the network would dismiss claims with 'boys will be boys,' lawsuit s
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-26 | by ( Kelsey Vlamis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Luhn filed a lawsuit on Wednesday alleging Fox News enabled and covered up the abuse. In a statement to Insider, Fox called the allegations against the network "meritless." The lawsuit named Fox News, Twenty-First Century Fox, and William Shine, a former Fox News executive who also had a brief stint in the Trump White House. The sexual abuse that she suffered while working at Fox News was some of the worst imaginable. "New York's Adult Survivors Act recognizes the lifelong trauma that sexual abuse victims can suffer.

The investigation focuses in part on a phone call Trump made to Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, a Republican, on Jan. 2, 2021. Trump asked Raffensperger to "find" enough votes needed to overturn Trump's election loss in Georgia. Legal experts said Trump may have violated at least three Georgia criminal election laws: conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with performance of election duties. Both investigations involving Trump are being overseen by Jack Smith, a war crimes prosecutor and political independent. NEW YORK CRIMINAL PROBEAlthough Trump was not charged with wrongdoing, his real estate company was found guilty on Dec. 6 of tax fraud in New York state.

☆ Trump said he 'can't think of any complaints' when asked if he ever forcibly kissed a woman; 26 have accused him of sexual assault
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-14 | by ( Laura Italiano | Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Excerpts of Trump's deposition were released Friday in author E. Jean Carroll's defamation case. Asked by Carroll's lawyer if he ever forcibly kissed a woman, Trump said he "can't think of any complaints." At least 26 women have accused Trump of sexual assaults dating back to the 1970s; he has denied them all. Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, asked Trump during the October 19 sworn deposition, which he taped from Mar-a-Lago. "Well, I don't — I can't think of any complaints," Trump answered, according to the transcript unsealed Friday.

☆ Trump loses bid to dismiss rape accuser's second defamation lawsuit
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-13 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

NEW YORK, Jan 13 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday rejected Donald Trump's bid to dismiss writer E. Jean Carroll's second lawsuit accusing the former U.S. president of defamation for denying he raped her in the mid-1990s. He also rejected Trump's argument that Carroll's battery claim under New York's Adult Survivors Act must be dismissed because the law denied him due process under the state's constitution. Lawyers for Trump did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Carroll's lawyers did not immediately respond to similar requests. Carroll has accused Trump of raping her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in late 1995 or early 1996.

☆ Trump tried to fight E. Jean Carroll's defamation lawsuit in court on Tuesday. Here's a rundown of where all the litigation stands.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-10 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

E. Jean Carroll, who alleges Trump raped her, sued him for defamation more than three years ago. Carroll filed a second lawsuit in November, adding a defamation claim and accusing him of battery. Five months later, Carroll sued Trump for defamation, alleging he attacked her reputation by claiming she made the story up. Trump won't be able to invoke the Westfall Act in Carroll's second lawsuit, which means at least one of her defamation claims will likely move forward. If the DC Circuit allows Carroll's first lawsuit to proceed, a trial could happen in the next few months.

☆ Trump is headed to court Tuesday to argue that presidents can't be sued for defamation. Here's what's at stake.
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Ashley Collman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

An appeals court is set to weigh in on E. Jean Carroll's defamation suit against Donald Trump. Trump and the DOJ argue that he can't be personally sued for statements he made in office. Carroll sued Trump for defamation in November 2019, saying her career suffered "as a direct result of Trump's defamatory statements." Seth Wenig/APThe Westfall Act protects government employees from being sued for actions in the line of their work. Because he made those comments after leaving the White House, he won't be able to claim Westfall Act protection.

☆ Judge orders unsealing of part of Trump deposition in E. Jean Carroll rape defamation suit
▼ + stars: | 2023-01-09 | by ( Dan Mangan | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

E. Jean Carroll is seen outside State Supreme Court on March 4, 2020, in New York. But the unsealed pages of Trump's deposition were not immediately available in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. And Trump's attorneys later Monday filed a letter with Judge Lewis Kaplan asking for three days to oppose the unsealing of the section of the deposition. Carroll originally sued Trump for defamation in late 2019 in New York state court. In October, she filed a second lawsuit, after he wrote a scathing Oct. 12 social media post about her rape claim, which Carroll said constituted another act of defamation.

☆ Trump lawyers argue that calling rape accuser E. Jean Carroll a liar doesn't defame her as a journalist
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-22 | by ( Michelle Mark | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Former President Donald Trump has filed a motion to dismiss a second lawsuit from E. Jean Carroll. Trump's attorney argued he never defamed Carroll because he didn't disparage her professionally. Carroll previously sued Trump in 2019, alleging that the then-president defamed her by claiming she invented the rape allegations. Trump's court filing on Wednesday argued that Trump's October 12 statement didn't qualify as defamation because it doesn't disparage Carroll's "trade, business or profession." In response to Insider's request for comment, Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said Carroll's team looks forward to going to trial in April 2023.

REUTERS/Carlo AllegriDec 21 (Reuters) - Donald Trump plans to argue that a New York law allowing a writer to sue the former U.S. president over claims that he raped her decades ago is unconstitutional, according to a court filing. Trump has denied Carroll's claim that he raped her in a dressing room in a Bergdorf Goodman department store 27 years ago. The former Elle magazine columnist is suing Trump for defamation and battery under New York's Adult Survivors Act. Carroll had sued Trump for defamation in 2019 for denying her allegations, and a trial is scheduled in that case for April. Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York; Editing by David GregorioOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

☆ I was a member of the Twitter Trust and Safety Council, which is now being dissolved. The platform is no longer the Twitter I signed up for, and I worry it's no longer safe.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-21 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Eirliani Abdul Rahman is a former member of Twitter's Trust and Safety Council. Abdul Rahman and two other members resigned earlier this month, and Twitter disbanded the council days later. Abdul Rahman is the co-founder of Youth, Adult Survivors & Kin In Need (YAKIN) and a former member of Twitter's Trust and Safety Council. Earlier this month, she resigned from the council, which Twitter later disbanded via email less than an hour before the group was scheduled to meet. I loved Twitter as a platform because I felt it was so unique, and even today I don't think there's any equivalent.

☆ E. Jean Carroll said in deposition she held back Trump rape allegation to not be seen as 'spoiled goods'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-20 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Excerpts from E. Jean Carroll's deposition in her rape lawsuit against Trump were filed in court. She explains she held back her allegation because rape victims were seen as "spoiled goods." Carroll says Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman's changing room in the 1990s. Trump denied Carroll's allegation and called her a liar, prompting Carroll to file a defamation lawsuit against him. In her deposition, Carroll said it took time to understand the impact the alleged attack had on her life.

☆ Elon Musk told ex-Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey 'almost no one was working on child safety' when he took over
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-10 | by ( Sam Tabahriti | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Elon Musk tweeted it was a "crime" child safety wasn't prioritized at Twitter before he took over. Former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey responded via Twitter that Musk's claim was "false". Musk doubled down and added it was his "top priority" with new trust and safety chief Ella Erwin. Dorsey responded that Musk's claim was "false." Musk contradicted Dorsey and said: "When Ella Irwin, who now runs Trust & Safety, joined Twitter earlier this year, almost no one was working on child safety."

☆ 3 members of Twitter's Trust and Safety Council quit: 'Red lines have been crossed'
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-09 | by ( Sarah Jackson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +5 min

Three members of Twitter's Trust and Safety Council resigned this week. Twitter's Trust and Safety Council, formed in 2016, consists of several dozen people and independent organizations that Twitter says help "advocate for safety and advise us as we develop our products, programs, and rules." Our answer is a categorical 'no,'" the departing council members' release continued. Council members have been "mystified by the lack of communication" since Musk took charge, according to Collier. I'm deeply saddened to see the rise in racist, violent and hate speech in recent months."

WHITE HOUSE RUNOn Nov. 15 Trump launched his campaign for the Republican nomination to take on Democratic President Joe Biden. NEW YORK CRIMINAL PROBEAfter Tuesday's verdict in the tax fraud case, the New York state judge set sentencing for Jan. 13. GEORGIA ELECTION TAMPERING PROBEA special grand jury was empanelled in May for a Georgia prosecutor's inquiry into Trump's alleged efforts to influence that state's 2020 election results. Trump asked Raffensperger to "find" enough votes needed to overturn Trump's election loss in Georgia. Legal experts said Trump may have violated at least three Georgia criminal election laws: conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with performance of election duties.

☆ Bill Cosby sued for sexual abuse under new NY lookback law
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-06 | by ( Eric Levenson | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

CNN —Two former actresses on “The Cosby Show” are among five women who filed a lawsuit against Bill Cosby in New York state court on Monday accusing him of sexual assault and abuse dating back decades. According to the suit, Cosby drugged and raped Bernard, who played Mrs. Minifield on “The Cosby Show,” in New Jersey and Nevada in 1990 and at his Manhattan home in 1991. Gittens alleges Cosby invited her to his Manhattan home in 1989 or 1990 to discuss working on “The Cosby Show” but then drugged her and sexually assaulted her. Thompson alleges Cosby made her inappropriately touch him without her consent at his Manhattan home in 1988 when she was 18. Ladd alleges Cosby drugged her and raped her in 1969.

NEW YORK CRIMINAL PROBEFollowing Tuesday's verdict, the New York state judge set a sentencing date for Jan. 13. U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland on Nov. 18, three days after Trump announced his 2024 presidential run, appointed Jack Smith special counsel to take over two Justice Department investigations. Trump has accused the Justice Department of engaging in a partisan witch hunt. Trump asked Raffensperger to "find" enough votes needed to overturn Trump's election loss in Georgia. Legal experts said Trump may have violated at least three Georgia criminal election laws: conspiracy to commit election fraud, criminal solicitation to commit election fraud and intentional interference with performance of election duties.

Kaplan did not rule on Carroll's request to hold one trial combining the lawsuit, which the former longtime Elle magazine columnist filed in November 2019, with a second lawsuit she filed last week accusing Trump of battery. Trump, 76, opposed combining the lawsuits, with his lawyers saying they did not know who would represent him in the second lawsuit. Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan said she was pleased with the new trial date, and understood the decision to defer rulings in the second case. Carroll made the rape accusation in her memoir, and sued Trump after he claimed in June 2019 not to know her and said she was "not my type." Her first lawsuit has been delayed as appeals courts consider whether Trump was acting as president when he scoffed at the rape claim.

A former financier and associate of Jeffrey Epstein was sued Monday on allegations that he raped a woman in Epstein’s New York City mansion in spring 2002, according to court filings. The review, carried out by a New York law firm, declared that Black wasn’t involved in Epstein’s criminal activities. At the time, Epstein didn’t disclose Black’s name to Pierson, and she didn’t ask, according to the suit. Black then said ‘Black, my name is Leo Black,’” according to the filings. Another woman, Guzel Ganieva, sued Black last year, accusing him of rape and defamation, according to court filings.

[1/2] Leon Black is pictured here in Beverly Hills, California, U.S. May 1, 2018. Pierson's lawsuit in a New York state court in Manhattan seeks unspecified damages from Black for sexual assault and intentional infliction of emotional distress, and from Epstein's estate for negligence. Her law firm Wigdor LLP also represents Guzel Ganieva, a former Russian model who in June 2021 sued Black for defamation, saying he falsely claimed she tried to extort him after accusing him of rape. In a Nov. 19 letter to the Wigdor firm, Estrich said: "Mr. Black never sexually assaulted anyone anywhere at any time." His former associate Ghislaine Maxwell is appealing her conviction and 20-year prison sentence for enabling Epstein's abuse of underage girls.

☆ Lawsuit alleges investor Leon Black raped a woman inside Jeffrey Epstein's home
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-28 | by ( Ramishah Maruf | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

New York CNN Business —Billionaire investor Leon Black has been sued by a woman alleging he “brutal[ly]” raped her at Jeffrey Epstein’s Manhattan townhouse in spring 2002. Wigdor filed Pierson’s complaint Monday under New York’s Adult Survivors Act. The firm’s Doug Wigdor helped advocate for the new law, which was passed in May and went into effect last week. After that he called again and asked to see her, according to the complaint, but Pierson refused to see him again. In 2008, Epstein pled guilty in Florida to two felony offenses: procuring a person under the age of 18 for prostitution and solicitation of prostitution.

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