Article snippet: A prominent author and advice columnist, E. Jean Carroll, has accused President Trump of sexual assault in the 1990s in her forthcoming book, an excerpt of which was published by New York magazine Friday. The White House denied the claim in a comment to New York magazine. President Trump, in a statement, said, “I’ve never met this person in my life. She is trying to sell a new book — that should indicate her motivation. It should be sold in the fiction section.” Carroll, a long-time advice columnist for Elle magazine and the author of several books, made the accusation in a piece detailing a series of incidents throughout her life when she was the victim of assault or molestation. The individuals Carroll describes as the “hideous men” in her life also include former CBS CEO Les Moonves, whom she interviewed for a 1997 Esquire story and who she says groped her repeatedly in an elevator, a claim Moonves denied to New York magazine. Carroll wrote that she encountered Trump, then a real estate developer, outside a New York City Bergdorf Goodman store in the mid-1990s, and the two recognized one another. Trump solicited Carroll’s help in choosing a gift for an unnamed woman, and she wrote that she and Trump considered various items in the department store before he suggested they look at lingerie. Carroll wrote that Trump goaded her to try on a bodysuit — “I wanna see how this looks,” he said, according to Carroll — and the two went into a dressing room. RELATED: The... Link to the full article to read more