The two women, Lisa Birnbach and Carol Martin, were, like Carroll, prominent personalities in New York media in the ’90s
Photo: Craig Ruttle/AP/Shutterstock In a book excerpt published last week by New York Magazine, Elle advice columnist E. Jean Carroll wrote that President Donald Trump raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-’90s, and said that two acquaintances of hers — whom she confided in at the time — could corroborate her story.
. Birnbach is a best-selling author who has written and contributed to numerous books, the most famous of them being The Official Preppy Handbook, first published in 1980. Martin was a news anchor for New York’s WCBS-TV from 1975 until 1995. The Times notes that both women also knew Trump around the time of the alleged assault.
Just as Carroll describes in her piece, Birnbach and Martin told the Times their vastly different reactions to Carroll account. Birnbach told Carroll to go to the police with her story, while Martin told the Times of her own conversation with Carroll, “I said: Don’t tell anybody. I wouldn’t tell anybody this.” These conversations reportedly occurred within three days of the alleged attack.
The Times asked Carroll why she didn’t come forward in 2016, when many other women went public with allegations of sexual misconduct against Trump, to which Carroll responded that she assumed her story would only help him consolidate power. “It is a masculine, powerful, leader-like thing to do to take what you want,” she said, “to have as many women for your own pleasure as you can take.”
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