Judge orders E. Jean Carroll be paid $5.8M in Trump sex abuse and defamation case; Trump appeals
Summary
A federal judge ordered that writer E. Jean Carroll be paid $5.8 million after a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her. President Trump’s lawyers have appealed the decision to stop the payment, but he has already deposited the money in a bank account.Key Facts
- A jury found that President Trump sexually abused E. Jean Carroll in 1996 in a Manhattan department store dressing room.
- The jury also ruled that Trump defamed Carroll after she spoke about the incident in a 2019 memoir.
- The original $5 million award increased to $5.8 million with interest.
- Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ruled that Carroll can collect the money after the U.S. Supreme Court let the verdict stand.
- President Trump’s lawyers immediately appealed to delay payment and also challenged the verdicts in higher courts.
- Trump denied knowing Carroll and denied the abuse claims, calling her motives political.
- Trump is also appealing an $83 million defamation award from a separate trial involving Carroll.
- The judge barred Trump from telling the second jury that the sexual encounter never happened during the damages trial.
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