E. Jean Carroll, the longtime Elle columnist who recently accused President Trump of raping her in the mid-‘90s, bragged in a new interview that she used to sexually harass former Fox News CEO Roger Ailes when they worked together in cable news.

Ms. Carroll, who said she worked for Mr. Ailes when he led the “America’s Talking” channel, which would eventually become MSNBC, confessed to sexually harassing the late media titan in her new book, “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal.”

Asked to expand on that confession during a Friday interview with Vanity Fair, Ms. Carroll responded, “Oh, I did it. Every day I had a chance.”

“I call him the pearl of his sex. Right on the air,” she said. “I roll up my trouser legs. I would wait for the camera to come over. Then I would slowly pull up the right and then the left trouser leg. It would say Roger Ailes. I would say, ‘He’s my future husband.’ It never stopped. I’d ask him to twirl for me. I adored him.”

Ms. Carroll rose to prominence last month after she alleged in her book that Mr. Trump forcibly penetrated her in a dressing room at a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan in 1995 or 1996. She has refused to call the incident “rape,” explaining that she doesn’t want to be viewed as a victim. Mr. Trump has vehemently denied the allegation, saying she’s not his “type.”

Regardless of Mr. Trump’s reaction, Ms. Carroll said she’s enjoying her new fame.

“A group of men in their 20s, as I walked by, gave me the thumbs-up,” she told Vanity Fair. “As I was talking to somebody on the phone yesterday, a man just stood in front of me bowing as I talked on the phone. It was amazing. It was like he was standing in front of Queen Elizabeth.”

In her book, Ms. Carroll includes a “Most Hideous Men of My Life List,” of which Mr. Trump and Mr. Ailes are named. She admitted that she also belongs on the list, though she partially defended her behavior with Mr. Ailes.

“If you’re a hideous woman, you’re a hideous woman,” she said. “What I did was wrong. Hideous women are hideous. [Mr. Ailes] of course ruined America. Me asking him to show me his muscles is not going to ruin America. He actually managed to do that. He picked the next president. People who don’t realize it, it was Roger Ailes who put Donald Trump in the White House. [People] are not aware.”

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