Trump pays 5.6 million to E. Jean Carroll after sexual assault, defamation verdict upheld

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Trump pays 5.6 million to E. Jean Carroll after sexual assault, defamation verdict upheld
Federal judge orders Donald Trump to pay writer E. Jean Carroll 5.8 million
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Donald Trump has paid $5.6 million to author E. Jean Carroll following a civil trial in which a jury found him liable for sexual assault and defamation, according to court documents released on Tuesday.
The payment — representing the $5 million jury award, plus interest — was made Monday from an account where it had been held in escrow since the 2023 verdict. 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. Carroll herself later wrote on Substack that “the eagle has landed.”
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 had sought but were denied an emergency order to block the payment.
Trump's lawyers have vowed to continue appealing. They deposited the money in an escrow account shortly after the jury ruled against him. Trump’s attorneys have since filed another appeal seeking to stop or reverse the payment.
A jury found Trump liable for sexually assaulting Carroll in 1996 in a New York luxury department store dressing room and defaming her after she told the story publicly in a memoir in 2019, during his first term as president.
Trump insisted nothing sexual happened between him and Carroll, now 82, a former advice columnist. He claimed she was “totally lying” and “not my type” in a 2019 interview.
Carroll sued Trump after New York changed its laws to give sexual 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.
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