E. Jean Carroll receives $5.6M from Trump in sex abuse, defamation case: Court filing
E. Jean Carroll and her attorneys, Shawn Crowley and Roberta Kaplan, react outside Manhattan Federal Court following the verdict of the second civil lawsuit accusing former U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago, on January 26, 2024, in New York.
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Writer E. Jean Carroll has been paid more than $5.6 million owed to her as part of a federal civil jury verdict holding President Donald Trump liable for sexual misconduct and defamation, a court filing said Tuesday.
A notice in the online filing of Carroll’s lawsuit against Trump in U.S. District Court in lower Manhattan shows that $5,625,005.48 was paid on July 9 to pay the law firm of Carroll’s attorney. The total amount consists of the $5 million in damages awarded in the jury’s May 2023 verdict, plus post-verdict interest accrued over the next three years.
A person close to Carroll confirmed to CNBC that the money was transferred to the author.
“Three years ago, a nine-person jury unanimously found President Trump responsible for the sexual assault and defamation of E. Jean Carroll,” Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said in a statement to CNBC. he said.
“Today, we are pleased to report that he received the damages the jury awarded him as a result of this verdict,” Kaplan said.
Trump’s lawyers in the case did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
The day before the money was due, federal Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered Trump to pay Carroll; While he rejected Trump’s last-ditch efforts to avoid doing so, he noted that the president “has been stalling this case for years.”
Later that day, a U.S. appeals court in New York rejected Trump’s request to block Carroll from collecting the money Trump deposited more than three years ago following the jury verdict.
Trump was found responsible for sexually assaulting Carroll at the Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan in the 1990s, and then slandered Carroll after she went public with her allegation about that encounter in 2019.
In a separate federal civil case focused on the defamation claim, a Manhattan jury in January 2024 ordered Trump to pay Carroll a total of $83.3 million in damages.
Trump vehemently denied Carroll’s allegations and filed multiple appeals in both cases. In late June, the Supreme Court refused to hear Trump’s appeal of the sexual harassment and defamation ruling.
Trump continues to appeal the civil contempt ruling in a lower federal appeals court.
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— CNBC’s Dan Manganese contributed to this report.
