Lawyer for E. Jean Carroll says Trump wants to delay $5 million payment
President Trump’s lawyers have sought author E. Jean Carroll’s consent to delay the $5 million award to her by a 2023 grand jury and signaled they plan to ask the Supreme Court to reconsider Carroll’s appeal in the sexual misconduct and defamation case, according to an attorney for Carroll.
Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, wrote in a court filing on Tuesday that Mr. Trump’s lawyer called her with the request on Monday, shortly after the Supreme Court declined to hear her appeal. Later Monday, Kaplan wrote that Mr. Trump informed his team that “Carroll did not consent” and asked whether the president would agree to immediate payment of funds that Carroll had been waiting years to receive.
In a separate filing on Tuesday, Kaplan asked a judge to set a faster-than-usual schedule for paying the $5 million in damages awarded to him by a 2023 jury that found Mr. Trump liable for sexual misconduct and defamation. Carroll also must pay $779,783 in additional interest, Kaplan wrote.
Kaplan said he plans to apply to the federal court in New York for the release of the funds and requested that “the court make this decision directly.” [Trump] They must respond to the motion within seven days instead of the usual fourteen days, or by July 7, 2026.”
He pointed to a June 2023 filing in which he said the two sides agreed that Carroll could collect if the Supreme Court denied a petition to hear the case. the court did so Monday.
Kaplan also noted the cost to Carroll of “further delay in this nearly four-year-long case.”
CBS News reached out to Mr. Trump’s legal team.
Carroll Looks like he’s triumphed over Mr Trump On Monday, the nation’s highest court refused to hear his appeal. The president had spent three years appealing the federal jury’s unanimous verdict. less than three hours – most likely sexually assaulted Carroll by forcibly inserting his fingers into her during an encounter at a store in the 1990s.
Mr. Trump, who vehemently denies it. Carroll’s claimsHe said he didn’t know Carroll and “he’s not my type.” His denials and claims about Carroll were at the center of his defamation claims. The jury watched for a moment Mr Trump’s videotaped statement when he was shown a photo from the late 1980s showing Mr. Trump and Carroll talking to their then-spouses. mistakenly stated Carroll’s ex-wife reveals she is Marla Maples. Kaplan argued this was proof that Carroll was indeed Mr. Trump’s “type.”
The $5 million has since been held in a court-controlled bank account.
Carroll celebrated the Supreme Court’s decision with a brief note on Monday: his Substack blog“WE WON!” in all capital letters. writes.
“THIS WINNING IS FOR ALL WOMEN IN THE WORLD!” Carroll wrote.
Mr. Trump also appealed a separate federal jury’s January 2024 verdict that found him liable for other defamatory statements against Carroll. The jury gave him another award $83 million.
Mr. Trump’s lawyers also stated that they will take this case to the Supreme Court.
