In a New Book, E. Jean Carroll Chronicles Her Legal Battles With Trump

New York Times

13-06-2025

E. Jean Carroll, the journalist who accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her and won two multimillion dollar judgments against him, is publishing a behind-the-scenes account of her legal entanglements with the president.
Carroll's new book, 'Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President,' is due out on Tuesday.
The book, which Carroll spoke about in an interview with New York magazine, is described by her publisher as a 'hilarious, hopeful, revelatory behind-the-scenes account' that 'puts you in a better seat than the jury box.'
Carroll sold the book in March 2024, and she and her publisher went to unusual lengths to keep it secret. Booksellers were required to sign nondisclosure agreements, and Carroll and her editor sometimes communicated over Signal, an encrypted messaging platform, according to Elisabeth Dyssegaard, the executive editor at St. Martin's.
Carroll's account of the trial is delivered in her idiosyncratic, buoyant style. The memoir opens with a Trump attorney asking her to list all of the people she's ever slept with ('As I am excessively fond of my lovers, my answers to her question give me several minutes of happiness,' she writes), and includes courtroom transcripts that are peppered with her colorful commentary. She describes being cross-examined about why she didn't scream during the assault — she didn't want to make a scene, she explained — and the intense moment when she and Trump locked eyes in the courtroom.
In a phone interview on Friday, Carroll said she decided to write about the trial because, as a reporter, she couldn't resist the chance to narrate a surreal experience and major story.
'I found myself, an old journalist, in the middle of a high comedy surrounded with characters that not even Jonathan Swift himself could have created,' she said, evoking the famous satirist. 'I just could not help myself.'
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