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Reporter On Leave Over Personal Relationship With RFK Jr.
A prominent writer for New York Magazine and New Jersey native was placed on leave after engaging in a relationship with Robert F. Kennedy Jr, who recently ended his independent presidential campaign. Olivia Nuzzi, who was raised in Middletown and attended Middletown High School, is believed to have started her relationship with Kennedy after writing a profile on him in November 2023, the Washington Post says citing a vague memo to staff from David Haskell. “We learned about the personal nature of Olivia’s relationship a few days ago,” editor David Haskell wrote in the memo. “She told …
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Liable Again: Trump Defamed E. Jean Carroll Second Time By Denying Sexual Abuse, Judge Rules
Months after a jury concluded that former President Donald Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll decades ago and then defamed her by calling her a liar, a federal judge in New York has found Trump liable in Carroll’s second defamation lawsuit. In his ruling issued Wednesday, Sept. 6, in US District Court in Manhattan, Judge Lewis Kaplan said Carroll has already proven that Trump defamed her, and the upcoming trial will only decide how much the former president must pay her in damages. Wednesday’s ruling comes after a federal jury in the first lawsuit awarded Carroll, now age 79 and l…
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Gilgo Beach Murders: Woman Who Worked For Accused Killer Shares Disturbing Details
A new account by a woman who worked for Gilgo Beach serial murders suspect Rex Heuermann details how he liked to hire petite women fitting the description of his alleged victims.In the New York magazine story headlined, "My Boss the Monster," Mary Shell, who reported to Heuermann at his architecture agency located on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan, also noted how he frequently boasted about his passion for hunting, but never mentioned his wife and two children who lived with him on Long Island, in Massapequa Park. "My former colleagues described how he gushed about his bear-hunting trip…
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E. Jean Carroll Wants New Damages From Trump After His Comments At CNN Town Hall, Report Says
Former President Donald Trump’s words at a televised town hall may come back to bite him if writer E. Jean Carroll gets her way. On Monday, May 22, Carroll asked a Manhattan federal court to award her a “very substantial” additional amount of damages in her civil sexual abuse and defamation case against Trump, CNN reports. According to the outlet, the move is in direct response to Trump’s appearance at a CNN town hall on May 10, in which he continued to deny Carroll’s claims that he sexually abused her in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s, calling the allegation “fake”…
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Donald Trump Sexually Abused, Defamed E. Jean Carroll, Jury Finds; Awards $5M In Damages
Former President Donald Trump sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store in the 1990s and then defamed her when he claimed she was lying about the allegation, a New York jury found in a unanimous verdict. The Manhattan federal jury read its verdict shortly after 3 p.m. Tuesday, May 9 after deliberating for approximately 2.5 hours. Jurors found Trump liable for battery based on Carroll’s sexual assault claim, as well as defamation. The jury did not, however, find Trump liable for the alleged rape. Carroll was awarded total damages of nearly $5 million, which includes $2.7…
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'Donald Trump Raped Me,' NY Accuser Testifies As Trial Starts
E. Jean Carroll testified that she hasn’t had a romantic or sexual relationship since the 1990s, “because Donald Trump raped me,” The Washington Post reports. The New York columnist's remarks came on the first day of testimony in her civil battery and defamation trial against the former president, which continued in Manhattan on Wednesday, April 26. Earlier Report: Trump's 'Past Words, Actions' Cited In Judge's Ruling For Anonymous Jurors In Sex Assault Trial Carroll, now age 79 and living in the Hudson Valley, in Orange County, made headlines in June 2019 when she claimed in a cover stor…
Politics
Trump's 'Past Words, Actions' Cited In Judge's Ruling For Anonymous Jurors In Sex Assault Trial
Jurors set to hear arguments in former President Donald Trump’s upcoming civil sexual assault trial brought by New York columnist E. Jean Carroll will remain anonymous, a federal judge ruled. In his ruling issued Thursday, March 23, US District Judge Lewis Kaplan cited Trump’s “past words and actions,” in part for his decision, saying the former president has “repeatedly attacked courts, judges, various law enforcement officials and other public officials, and even individual jurors in other matters.” Earlier Report: Trump Rape Accuser From Hudson Valley To File Lawsuit Under New NY '…
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Trump Rape Accuser From NY To File Lawsuit Under New 'Survivors' Law
A well-known writer and advice columnist from New York who claims that former President Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s plans to file a sexual battery lawsuit under the state’s new Adult Survivors Act, CBS News reports. In a court filing as part of her ongoing defamation lawsuit against Trump, E. Jean Carroll, now age 78 and living in Orange County, says she intends to sue the former president on Thursday, Nov. 24, when the new law takes effect. The Adult Survivors Act provides a one-year window for adult victims of sexual abuse to file a claim, even if it occurred decades ago. Relate…
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Here's Where Cuomo Has Been 'Hiding Out' Since Leaving Office, Report Says
It’s good to have friends in high places. Since leaving the Executive Mansion in Albany, disgraced former Gov. Andrew Cuomo has reportedly been holing up in the Hamptons at the Southampton home of longtime ally Dr. Jeffrey A. Sachs on Long Island, according to new reports. Related story - Where's Captain? Speculation Swirls Cuomo Left His Dog Behind When He Exited Executive Mansion Cuomo’s latest living arrangements, first reported in the New York Post, come after U-Haul trucks were spotted bringing his belongings from the Albany mansion to his sister's Westchester home, located in Purchas…
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Where Will Cuo Go? Soon-To-Be Ex-Gov Unsure What He'll Do, Where He'll Live After Leaving Post
In his first interview after announcing his resignation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo said he is unsure of his immediate plans, but he won't be "disappearing." Cuomo is set to step down as New York's governor on Tuesday, Aug. 24. He made the announcement on Tuesday, Aug. 10, following a 165-page report from Attorney General Letitia James, which included accusations that he sexually harassed 11 women. In the interview with New York Magazine Cuomo said he is unsure of his plans, including where he is going to live after leaving the executive mansion in Albany, a place where either h…
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'Get Orange Jump Suit Ready!' Rape Accuser From NY Says Of Trump
The woman who has accused Donald Trump of rape took to his famous form of social media to troll the former president about the civil and criminal lawsuits that are pending against him. Hudson Valley resident E. Jean Carroll, of Orange County, took to Twitter this week to taunt Trump with a series of tweets he will never have the chance to respond to after being banned from the social media platform. Earlier story - Orange County Woman Eyes Legal Action Vs. Trump After Sex Assault Claims With pressure mounting on Trump amid multiple investigations into his business dealings and news that Ne…
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Seventh Accuser Emerges, Saying Cuomo Sexually Harassed Her 'Several Times'
Just hours after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo doubled down on his refusal to resign amid a flurry of sexual harassment allegations, a seventh accuser has emerged. Jessica Bakeman, a reporter, says she was sexually harassed by Cuomo several times since she first starting covering the Albany statehouse beat in 2012. Bakeman made her allegations in a first-person account in New York Magazine. "Andrew Cuomo’s hands had been on my body — on my arms, my shoulders, the small of my back, my waist — often enough by late 2014 that I didn’t want to go to the holiday party he was hosting for the Albany …
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Covid-
19: Cuomo Ramps Up TV Appearances As His Book, 'American Crisis,' Debuts
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is back on national television, though this time he’s promoting his book about the state’s response to the COVID-19 crisis, not offering a daily update on the toll the virus is taking. Seven months after he became the face of the fight against COVID-19 with his daily briefings on the virus, Cuomo has been making the media rounds again, this time promoting his book “American Crisis - Leadership Lessons From The COVID-19 Pandemic,” which was released on Tuesday, Oct. 13. Cuomo made an appearance on “Live with Kelly and Ryan” this week to promote the book, which was …
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Father Of Student At Area College Charged With Sex Trafficking Her Friends
The father of a former college student in Westchester has been charged with running an alleged sex cult out of his daughter’s dorm room for nearly a decade. Lawrence Ray, 60, who was the subject of a cover story for New York Magazine, has been charged with sex trafficking, extortion, forced labor, and other offenses, officials announced on Tuesday, Feb. 11. Ray was released from prison in 2010 and moved into the co-ed dorm of his daughter at Sarah Lawrence College near the border of Yonkers and Bronxville. It is alleged that Ray subjected “his victims to sexual and psychological manipulati…
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Upstate NY Writer Says She Was Sexually Assaulted By Trump In Mid-90s
A well-known writer and advice columnist says she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump in the mid-1990s. E. Jean Carroll, now 75 and residing in the Hudson Valley, listed President Trump as the last of her most "Hideous Men," in a first-person magazine column. Carroll, who lives in a cabin on an island in the Wawayanda Mountains outside Warwick in Orange County, is best known for her "Ask E. Jean" column, which has appeared in Elle magazine since 1993. In the cover story set to appear in next week's issue of New York Magazine, Carroll details the alleged sexual assault that she …
Lifestyle
Wahlberg To Adapt Story On Students Falling Under Spell Of Sarah Lawrence Classmate's Father
Mark Wahlberg and producer Jason Blum are teaming up to adapt the story of students at Sarah Lawrence College in Westchester who fell into the manipulations of the father of a classmate. Based on “The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence,” a cover story for New York magazine by Ezra Marcus and James D. White, Blum’s production company picked up the rights to the story about Larry Ray shortly after it was published late last month. According to the Hollywood Reporter, the production is in its infancy, and it is not clear if it will be turned into a feature film or limited series. Wahlberg woul…
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