E. Jean Carroll Receives Over USD 5.6 Million From Donald Trump in S*xual Abuse, Defamation Case
The writer E. Jean Carroll has collected over USD 5.6 million that a jury awarded in her s*xual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, court records and her lawyers said.
NEW YORK (AP): The writer E. Jean Carroll has collected over USD 5.6 million that a jury awarded in her s*xual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, court records and her lawyers said. The payment — representing the USD 5 million jury award, plus interest — was made Monday from an account where it had been held in escrow since the 2023 verdict, according to court records. Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, confirmed the payment Tuesday. "We are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment," Kaplan said in a statement.
Trump's lawyers have vowed to continue appealing. Trump deposited the money in an escrow account shortly after the jury ruled against him. The U.S. Supreme Court recently let the civil verdict stand, clearing the way for Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to release the money. Trump's lawyers then sought but were denied an emergency order to block the payment. The one-sentence denial set no conditions on how Carroll may use the money. Her lawyers have said in court papers that she plans to put it in a retirement account. US Justice Department Opens Probe Into E Jean Carroll in Donald Trump Assault Case.
Trump's attorneys have since filed another appeal seeking to stop or reverse the payment. The jury found Trump attacked Carroll in 1996 in a New York luxury department store dressing room and defamed her after she told the story publicly in a memoir in 2019, during his first term as president. Trump insisted nothing s*xual happened between him and Carroll, now 82, a former advice columnist. Trump claimed she was "totally lying" and " not my type " in a 2019 interview. He said he didn't know her, dismissing a 1987 photo of them and their then-spouses at a party as inconsequential, and he accused her of harboring political motives and trying to sell books at his expense. ‘They Have Gone Crazy’: Donald Trump Slams NYT, CNN, and WSJ Over West Asia and Iran Conflict Coverage.
Trump didn't attend the trial, where Carroll testified that their flirtatious and friendly chance encounter at the department store turned violent. Carroll sued Trump after New York changed its laws to give s*xual abuse survivors a fresh chance to sue over attacks that happened in the distant past. Trump is also appealing $83 million in defamation compensation granted to Carroll by a separate Manhattan jury after a 2024 trial where Trump briefly testified. The Associated Press generally does not identify people who say they have been s*xually abused. Carroll has agreed to be named.
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