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A federal judge on Wednesday ordered the release of $5.8 million to E. Jean Carroll three years after the jury awarded payment for damages caused by President Trump.
District Judge Lewis Kaplan said Carroll should receive the funds, which were placed in an escrow account while Trump appealed a verdict that found him liable for defaming Carroll.
During his first term in the Oval, Trump said Carroll’s claims that he sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in Manhattan were a “con job” and “hoax.”
A jury determined his statements were defamatory and negatively impacted Carroll professionally.
The Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal to overturn the case without an explanation or reasoning last week.
Carroll’s attorney said the high court’s decision signals that Trump should end his pursuit to overturn the 2023 verdict awarding the Elle magazine columnist millions of dollars in damages.
“After four years of litigation across every level of the federal court system, it is time for this case to end,” Roberta Kaplan said in a statement to The Guardian.
“And under the Court’s Stipulation and Order, Carroll is now entitled to obtain payment of the money due under the judgment,” she added.
Trump’s attorneys asked that the funds awarded to Carroll remain in the court escrow account while “timely petition for rehearing remains pending before the Supreme Court.”
His legal team argued Trump would suffer “irreparable harm,” while Carroll was not improperly disadvantaged by waiting.
Trump’s lawyers appealed Kaplan’s ruling less than an hour after it was issued.
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