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Writer E. Jean Carroll has received a payout of the over $5.6 million owed to her three years after a jury found President Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation.
“Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll,” said Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, in a statement. “Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her as a result of that verdict.”
The U.S. District Court in lower Manhattan posted a notice on its online docket on Tuesday that the total amount had been disbursed to Kaplan’s law firm on July 9.
The Hill has reached out to Trump’s lawyers for comment.
Carroll accused the president of assaulting her in a luxury department store dressing room in 1996. Trump has said he never met Carroll and maintained that she fabricated the story.
The president unsuccessfully sought to pause this payment in a petition to the Supreme Court earlier this month. After the high court unanimously denied Trump’s request, Carroll’s attorneys asked a federal court to release the over $5 million owed to her.
Carroll first came forward publicly with her accusations toward Trump during his first term in 2019. Since then, she has taken him to trial in New York twice and won.
The settlement concerns her first successful lawsuit against the president in 2023, in which the jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation.
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