Author E. Jean Carroll (Photo: E. Jean Carroll / Facebook)
US President Donald Trump has paid $5.6 million to author E. Jean Carroll after a civil jury found he sexually assaulted and defamed her, according to court documents filed Tuesday.
“A jury of nine members unanimously found three years ago that President Trump is liable for the sexual assault and defamation of E. Jean Carroll,” Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement.
“We are delighted to be able to confirm today that she has received the damages awarded to her by the jury in terms of this verdict.”
In late June, the US Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal of the original May 2023 ruling, essentially making the decision final.
Carroll, a former journalist and columnist who is now 82 years old, accused the president of assaulting her in a fitting room of a New York department store in 1996.
When the allegations were published in a book in 2019, the Republican billionaire labeled her a “crazy person” and claimed she made the case up.
Trump was ordered to pay $83.3 million to Carroll in a separate defamation suit in New York. This judgment was upheld on appeal, but its execution remains suspended for the time being.
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