Famed magazine columnist: 'Donald Trump assaulted me' This woman is trying to PULL a Brett KAVANAUGH story on President Trump The Deep State sinking to new lows with this story. "Magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll alleges she was sexually assaulted by President Trump during the 1990s, in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman. Carroll makes the allegations in her upcoming book What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal (published July 16), and excerpted in the latest issue of New York magazine’s The Cut. The article is titled, “Hideous Men. Donald Trump assaulted me in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. But he’s not alone on the list of awful men in my life.” The 75-year-old advice columnist, who then worked as a cable television host, says she was shopping at the luxury department store one evening in either 1995 or 1996 when “One of New York’s most famous men” walked in and said, “Hey, you’re that advice lady!” “Hey, you’re that real-estate tycoon!” Carroll, then 52, responded. According to Carroll, Trump was at the store to buy a present for “a girl” whom he didn’t name. However, the now-president was married to Marla Maples (the mother of Tiffany Trump) from 1993 to 1999. Noting that Trump “yammers about himself like he’s Alexander the Great ready to loot Babylon,” the pair walked around the store, debating handbags and hats, making their up to the lingerie floor where Trump allegedly demanded that Carroll, try on a lacy, sheer bodysuit. Carroll demurred but says Trump grabbed her arm and guided her to a dressing room. The moment the dressing-room door is closed, he lunges at me, pushes me against the wall, hitting my head quite badly, and puts his mouth against my lips,” wrote Carroll. “I am so shocked I shove him back and start laughing again. He seizes both my arms and pushes me up against the wall a second time, and, as I become aware of how large he is, he holds me against the wall with his shoulder and jams his hand under my coat dress and pulls down my tights.”