Donald Trump has been accused of raping a woman in a department store changing room 23 years ago - the 16th woman to accuse him of sexual assault.

E. Jean Carroll, an agony aunt, television show host and magazine columnist, made the accusation in an essay in NY Magazine, published on Friday.

Mr Trump on Friday said he had "never met this person in my life".

He added: "“Shame on those who make up false stories of assault to try to get publicity for themselves, or sell a book, or carry out a political agenda.

“False accusations diminish the severity of real assault. All should condemn false accusations and any actual assault in the strongest possible terms."

In the cover photo, Carroll is wearing the Donna Karan coat-dress that she had on that day, which she said “still hangs on the back of my closet door.” It is the first time she has worn the dress since the incident.

Now aged 75, she said the incident happened in a Bergdorf Goodman changing room, in New York, in the autumn of 1995 or spring of 1996.

Mr Trump, she said, greeted her with the words: “Hey, you’re that advice lady!”

She replied: “Hey, you’re that real-estate tycoon!”