During Trump’s trial, his attorney questioned one of E. Jean Carroll’s books. These days, copies are going for thousands.
The attorney for writer E. Jean Carroll brought up one of her works in the second defamation lawsuit she filed against former President Donald Trump. It was a little-known 1980s book titled “Female Difficulties: Sorority Sisters, Rodeo Queens, Frigid Women, Smut Stars and Other Modern Girls.”
In court last week, Trump’s attorney Alina Habba questioned Carroll about the book’s title—a collection of essays—trying to establish that the author had previously written about “smut stars,” as reported by Business Insider. The court upheld Carroll’s attorney’s objection, so the line of questions ended there.
However, one concrete outcome of Carroll’s book being mentioned during the widely followed trial is that used copies of the book are now selling for thousands of dollars. A used edition of “Female Difficulties” was posted on the secondhand book site AbeBooks on Friday morning for around $2,141. However, by Friday afternoon, the book had been taken from the market. For $999.99, another copy was listed on Amazon.com. A copy is available from Bibio for $199. A federal jury found on Friday that Trump must pay $83.3 million in damages for false claims he never sexually abused Carroll. This was a surprising decision since Carroll’s attorneys had demanded $10 million in damages for reputational injury and other unspecified punitive penalties.
I heard this book from 1985 came up in court last week, so I bought it and I’m reading it and it’s *GREAT* pic.twitter.com/BUKSnWldK8
— Emily Nussbaum (@emilynussbaum) January 24, 2024
When the book was brought up during the trial, novelist Richard Price and author Hunter Thompson blurted her description of it, calling her a “wild writer” and New Yorker writer Emily Nussbaum “extremely funny and slightly frightening.”
“I heard this book from 1985 came up in court last week, so I bought it and I’m reading it and it’s *GREAT*,” she said in a tweet on Tuesday. “Got it online for $80, well worth it.”
Though her legal disputes with Trump have garnered more attention in recent times, Carroll’s career was founded on giving women advice in Elle magazine’s “Ask E. Jean” column. The Guardian described her 2019 nonfiction book, “What Do We Need Men For?: A Modest Proposal,” as a “entertaining and rage-making romp of a read”.
The book also included Carroll’s account of her alleged 1990s dressing room sexual assault by Trump. Carroll claimed to have met Trump in the department shop Bergdorf Goodman when he asked for suggestions on a present for “a girl.” Carroll claimed that they eventually arrived at the lingerie area, when she claims Trump forced her into a changing room and attacked her sexually.
Trump said he had never met her and refuted her claims. Carroll then sued him for defamation as a result of that. In May 2023, Carroll received a $5 million damages award from a jury that found Trump guilty of defamation and sexual abuse in a different case.
The remarks made by Trump in 2019 that a judge has previously determined to be defamatory are the subject of the current defamation lawsuit. Carroll was supposed to get damages, and that was the purpose of the proceedings. However, not every one of Carroll’s books is receiving the same attention. You may get copies of “What Do We Need Men For?” on Amazon for as little as $3.51 each.
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