E. Jean Carroll: Elle Magazine Fired Me Over Trump’s Smear Campaign
E. Jean Carroll, the Elle magazine advice columnist who publicly accused President Trump of raping her in a department store dressing room over two decades ago, said she was fired by the magazine after Trump defamed her.
“Because Trump ridiculed my reputation, laughed at my looks, & dragged me through the mud, after 26 years, ELLE fired me,” Carroll wrote on Twitter Tuesday evening. “I don’t blame Elle. It was the great honor of my life writing ‘Ask E. Jean.’”
In a Tuesday filing, Carroll’s lawyer wrote that the president’s “defamatory comments” about the advice columnist “damaged her reputation... and have diminished her readership’s goodwill towards her.”