The writer’s account of the Trump trials is packed with revenge and barbed wit. She has little to hide
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t his wedding to Marla Maples in December 1993, two months after the birth of their daughter, Tiffany, Donald Trump got talking to Howard Stern. According to the shock jock, Trump allegedly opined, charmingly: “Vagina is expensive.” Trump and Maples split in 1997. Nearly 30 years later, E Jean Carroll, an adjudicated victim of Trump’s verbal and sexual abuse, might at least in one way concur with his crude and sexist analysis.
Carroll was assaulted by Trump in a changing room at Bergdorf Goodman, the New York department store. Thanks to court cases arising from that encounter, Trump owes her “slightly over $100m”, Carroll writes.
Subtitled One Woman vs a President, at 368 pages her book – Not My Type – is a breezy read, packed with revenge, joy and barbed wit. Carroll is a former writer for Elle and Saturday Night Live, a biographer of Hunter S Thompson. At 81, she has little to hide.
