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“This is an incredible opportunity for audiences to see what really goes on when a woman brings a case like this,” says Ivy Meeropol, director of “Ask E. Jean,” a documentary about E. Jean Carroll, the famous advice columnist who successfully sued Trump for sexual abuse and defamation.
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