She had $83 million reasons to celebrate.
E. Jean Carroll was spotted toasting her legal victory against Donald Trump — and her historic $83 million win — at a hip Lower East Side bar, Flower Shop, this week during a media party hosted by MSBNC journalist Molly Jong-Fast and Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman.
Also at the downtown NYC party were MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, “Studio 360” host Kurt Andersen, former “SNL” producer Marci Klein, Puck columnist Tara Palmeri, New York Times opinion writer Lydia Polgreen and Washington Post scribe Sarah Ellison.
The party was a media gathering — but we hear Carroll was the star of bash with guests gathering around to snap selfies and laud her as an “icon.”
We are told the former “Ask E. Jean” columnist attended with longtime pal Lisa Birnbach, the author of the ’80s must-have “The Official Preppy Handbook.”
Carroll recently appeared on Fast’s podcast “Fast Politics.”
A spy on the scene tells us the former Elle columnist “seemed jubilant” at the Tuesday night celebration, while another said, “She seemed delighted and vindicated. She was in awe [at the jury award] and victorious.”
Another witness said: “She was wearing what looked like a one piece flight suit in green khaki” at the party. “She looked like a hero. It’s great to see women winning the day.”
Yet another person at the party mused Carroll “could buy the bar.”
Carroll joked to MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow this week that she’d use the money from the judgement for clothing, quipping, “First thing, Rachel, you and I are going to go shopping… We’re going to get completely new wardrobes, new shoes.”
When she also told Maddow, “What do you want? Penthouse? It’s yours, Rachel… You want France? You want to go fishing in France?” her lawyer, Shawn Crowley, chimed in to mention, “That’s a…
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