Former President Donald Trump mistakenly identified E. Jean Carroll, the columnist who alleges he raped her in a New York department store in the 1990s, as his ex-wife Marla Maples in an old photograph he was shown during a deposition, court transcripts unsealed on Wednesday revealed.
Trump has denied raping Carroll, previously saying she’s “not my type.”
During the deposition in October, Trump was shown a 1987 photo that featured him, his accuser and her husband, and his then-wife Ivana Trump. Pointing to Carroll, he declared: “It’s Marla.”
“You’re saying Marla is in this photo?” responded Roberta Kaplan, attorney for Carroll, per an excerpt of the testimony released by U.S. District Court for Southern New York.
“That’s Marla, yeah. That’s my wife,” Trump replied.