E. Jean Carroll, the writer who won a pair of civil lawsuits alleging sexual abuse and defamation by President Donald Trump, on Monday received the more than $5.6 million in damages he owed her, according to a court filing.
The payment marks a significant victory that Trump has fought hard to prevent since his first term in the White House.
Carroll first accused Trump of raping her in a June 2019 essay for New York Magazine. The assault, she wrote, took place in Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. She subsequently sued him twice, with the first trial taking place in 2023.
Carroll also won a much larger award of $83.3 million after a second trial over her additional defamation claims. Trump is continuing to appeal that verdict.
“Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll,” Roberta Kaplan, a lawyer for Carroll, said in a statement Tuesday. “Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her.”
In the past few weeks, since the Supreme Court declined to reconsider the jury verdict in that case, Trump’s legal team launched a furious fight to prevent the president from being forced to pay Carroll. Last week, his lawyers told a New York district court that Trump would be “irreparably harmed” if she received the money. After the district court judge rejected his effort to pause the payment, Trump asked an appeals court to halt it. It, too, rebuffed his request.
The White House referred questions to Trump’s personal lawyers, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the president has spent years attacking Carroll on social media.
“All of this HOAX run and funded by Political Operatives!!!” he charged on Truth Social in January 2024, while in the midst of a separate trial in which Carroll accused him of continuing to defame her.
Carroll has previously said she will give the money to “something Trump hates.” A spokesperson for her lawyer didn’t respond Tuesday to a question about where she intends to donate the funds.
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