Trump Teen Rape Allegation Resurfaces, Ronan Farrow Claims National Enquirer
Tried to Protect Him in New Book

Amid behind-the-scenes details of his explosive reporting on Harvey
Weinstein's alleged sexual misconduct, Ronan Farrow's new book Catch and
Kill: Lies, Spies and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators claims that American
Media Inc. (AMI), the former publisher of the National Enquirer, tried to
help Donald Trump bury allegations he raped a teenager in 1994.

Farrow claims in the book that AMI CEO David Pecker was in close contact with
Trump when the rape allegations were made public in a 2016 lawsuit, and that
then-National Enquirer editor Dylan Howard assured Trump's personal lawyer at
the time, Michael Cohen, "that they would track down the woman with the rape
allegation and see what they could do about her." An AMI spokesperson told
Newsweek Tuesday that Farrow's claims are "completely untrue."

AMI has been accused in the past of purchasing potentially damaging stories
about Trump in order to keep them from becoming public�a practice known in
the industry as "catch and kill." Last December, AMI admitted that in 2016 it
made a $150,000 payment "in concert" with Trump's election campaign to former
Playboy model Karen McDougal, who allegedly had an affair with Trump a decade
earlier. The publisher made the pact with McDougal "in order to ensure that
the woman did not publicize damaging allegations about the candidate before
the 2016 presidential election," the U.S. Attorney's Office said.