Perverted Lives of the Rich and Famous > Trump Rape Lawsuit Begins in NY; CNBC's Gamble gets around

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Civil rape case against Donald Trump begins in Manhattan court

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Posted: Apr 25, 2023 1:55 PM PDT

E. Jean Carroll, who accuses former U.S. president Donald Trump of rape, arrives for the start of a civil trial at Manhattan federal court in New York City on Tuesday. She alleges Trump raped her in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. (Brendan McDermid/Reuters)

Shawn Crowley, who represents the former Elle magazine advice columnist, said during her opening statement on Tuesday that Trump "slammed Ms. Carroll against the wall" and "pressed his lips to hers," an account that other witnesses were prepared to verify.

"This is not a 'he said, she said' case," Crowley said in federal court in Manhattan.

Joe Tacopina, a lawyer for Trump, countered in his opening statement that the evidence will show that his client did not assault Carroll.

Tacopina also asked jurors to set aside feelings they may have about Trump, who has long inspired strong opinions from supporters and opponents across the political spectrum.

"You can hate Donald Trump. It's fine.... But there's a time and a secret place for that. It's called a ballot box in an election. It's not here in a court of law," Tacopina said. "Nobody's above the law, but no one is beneath it."

'Not my type'

Crowley and Tacopina spoke after U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan sat nine jurors who will decide whether Trump raped Carroll in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s, and then defamed her by denying it happened.

In an October 2022 post on his Truth Social platform, Trump, 76, had called Carroll's rape claim a "hoax" and "complete Scam," said she made it up to promote her memoir, and declared that Carroll was "not my type!"

During sworn questioning in October, though, he misidentified Carroll in a photograph as his ex-wife Marla Maples.

While under oath, Trump hurled insults at woman who accused him of rape, unsealed deposition reveals

Carroll, 79, is seeking unspecified damages for what she calls significant pain and suffering, lasting psychological harm and invasion of privacy.

She invoked a new New York state law giving adult sexual abuse victims a one-year window to sue their alleged attackers even if statutes of limitations expired long ago.

The trial is expected to last one to two weeks. Trump's lawyer will also give an opening statement.

CNBC’s Hadley Gamble also romantically linked to TPG’s David Bonderman

By Josh Kosman and Alexandra Steigrad

April 25, 2023 3:59pm  Updated

NYPost

The TV anchor who brought down NBC Universal CEO Jeff Shell also had a romantic entanglement with a married Texas buyout tycoon who treated her to a luxurious, jet-setting lifestyle, The Post has learned.

Hadley Gamble — a CNBC correspondent who was revealed to be the woman who had an “inappropriate relationship” with Shell for more than a decade until 2019 — was also tied during the same period to David Bonderman, the billionaire chairman of private equity firm TPG, according to a whistleblower complaint reviewed by The Post.

Bonderman — the 80-year-old co-owner of the NHL’s Seattle Kraken, with an estimated net worth of $6.6 billion, according to Forbes — has been renowned for his extravagant lifestyle, hiring bands like the Rolling Stones to play at his lavish parties. 

According to an explosive whistleblower complaint filed by a former TPG executive in 2015, Bonderman counted Gamble among his “female companions” and treated her to frequent trips on the firm’s private jet.

Gamble was revealed to be the woman who had an “inappropriate relationship” with Jeff Shell.

“TPG’s founder, David Bonderman, is known within the company to have regular female companions on which he lavishes gifts or to whom he otherwise provides benefits,” former TPG executive Adam Levine alleged in his complaint filed with the SEC on March 2, 2015.

“Mr. Bonderman is rumored to pay most, if not all, of the living expenses for these women, and often brings them with him on business trips,” according to the complaint.

“Ms. Gamble, especially, is known to fly with him regularly on TPG’s planes.”

Bonderman founded TPG Capital and has an estimated net worth of $6.6 billion.

AP

The allegations are a match for Gamble’s on-air persona, according to insiders — with some noting that Gamble made headlines worldwide two years ago after interviewing Russian President Vladimir Putin while wearing a tight black dress at an economic conference in Moscow.

Putin was caught on camera making flirty faces with Gamble before they went onstage — where he then suggested she was “too beautiful” to understand some of his answers, The Hill reported.

“She’ll be interviewing someone with a Louboutin [high-heeled shoe] dangling from her toe,” a source told The Post.

Gamble was accused of flirting with Russian President Vladimir Putin during an interview in 2021.

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Levine, TPG’s former managing director for global public affairs, accused the firm of securities law violations relating to billing investors for costs that should have been borne by TPG Capital, in the filing with the SEC.

Gamble, 41, was not the focus of the complaint, which TPG settled in 2017 without admitting guilt for $13 million, according to the SEC.

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