E. Jean Carroll is paid $5.6 million in Trump sex abuse and defamation case
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Writer E. Jean Carroll can collect over $5.6 million held in escrow since a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled. (AP Production: Marissa Duhaney)
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E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, Jan. 17, 2024, in New York. /Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
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Writer E. Jean Carroll can collect over $5.6 million held in escrow since a jury found that President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled. (AP Production: Marissa Duhaney)
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E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, Jan. 17, 2024, in New York. /Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
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E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, Jan. 17, 2024, in New York. /Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)
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NEW YORK (AP) — The writer E. Jean Carroll has collected over $5.6 million that a jury awarded in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, court records and her lawyers said
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, 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. Carroll herself later wrote on Substack that “the eagle has landed.”
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
Trump’s attorneys have since filed another appeal seeking to stop or reverse the payment
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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 sexual 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
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 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
The Associated Press generally does not identify people who say they have been sexually abused. Carroll has agreed to be named
Associated Press writer Michael R. Sisak contributed
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This story has been corrected to show that Carroll collected over $5.6 million, not $5.8 million
