Donald Trump rape accuser E. Jean Carroll seeks his DNA for dress test
- Aim is to determine whether US president’s genetic material is on outfit she wore during alleged incident
- In 1998, Bill Clinton acknowledged ‘inappropriate intimate relationship’ with White House intern Monica Lewinsky after his DNA was found on her dress
Lawyers for a woman who accuses US President Donald Trump of raping her in the 1990s are asking for a DNA sample, seeking to determine whether his genetic material is on a dress she says she wore during the encounter.
Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers served notice to a Trump lawyer on Thursday for Trump to submit a sample on March 2 in Washington for “analysis and comparison against unidentified male DNA present on the dress”.
Carroll filed a defamation suit against Trump in November after the president denied her allegation. Her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, then had the black wool coat-style dress tested. A lab report with the legal notice says DNA found on the sleeves was a mix of at least four people, at least one of them male.
Several other people were tested and eliminated as possible contributors to the mix, according to the lab report, which was obtained by Associated Press. Their names are redacted.
While the notice is a demand, such demands often spur court fights requiring a judge to weigh in on whether they will be enforced.