E. Jean Carroll Is Telling Her Story in a Documentary. Will It Find a Buyer?
E. Jean Carroll has been many things: a journalist, an advice columnist, a raconteur, a television personality and, most recently, the woman who sued President Trump twice — and won.
So it was not a surprise when the documentarian Ivy Meeropol came asking to make a film about her life and her lawsuits, in which juries found Trump liable for defamation and sexual abuse. The response Meeropol received from the colorful octogenarian was also not surprising: She’d rather eat her shoe.
“I’m an old, old lady,” Carroll said in a video interview. “I live in a hovel on a mountain. Nobody in the world is going to be interested in old E. Jean. It just didn’t make sense to me.”
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