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E. Jean Carroll, “Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson”:“Gonzo, now into his third Scotch, suddenly asked the girl if she would like to be raped.‘You’ll like it,’ he said. ‘You have that look about you. I always recognize it immediately. You can see it in the eyes. It’s a fearful look.’The girl giggled but declined. ‘Why use violence?’ she purred. ‘Can’t we just fuck normally?’‘Normally?’ he shouted. ‘What the hell does that mean? Are you some sort of weird freak? I want to rip off your clothes, rape you, tear you limb from limb, and throw you into the street. You’ll like it. Believe me, goddamn it. I’m an expert. I know what I’m doing.’”

Vanity Fair: “You also confessed to sexually harassing Roger Ailes while you had a show on his cable channel America’s Talking. He is also on your list of hideous men, but was once a friend.”E. Jean Carroll: “Oh, I did it. Every day I had a chance. I call him the pearl of his sex. Right on the air. 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.”

Vanity Fair: “In the book you call yourself a hideous woman.”E. Jean Carroll: “Oh. I was bad, bad.”Vanity Fair: “Because you flashed a professor.”E. Jean Carroll: “He was the most popular professor on campus. So adorable. He went on to Washington to become quite a big deal. He was the golden boy. He was in Ballantine Hall lecturing. Ballantine Hall is the largest auditorium campus at the time. I had the temerity to walk on the stage in a trench coat and dark glasses, open my trench coat wearing a bright yellow bikini, and flash that man four, five, six seconds. He could barely stand up. Now, if a man did that today to a female professor, I hope that man would be in jail. So I put myself on the hideous list. He married a friend of mine…”Vanity Fair: “Did you feel guilty looking back on that later?”E. Jean Carroll: “No. I laugh my ass off about that…It was great.”