Trump just paid E. Jean Carroll $5,625,000 three years after a jury found Trump sexually abused her
Trump just paid E. Jean Carroll $5,625,000 three years after a jury found Trump sexually abused her.
A notice on the court docket in lower Manhattan shows the money was disbursed to her attorney’s firm this week. It covers the $5 million a unanimous nine-person jury awarded her in May 2023, plus the interest that piled up over the three years Trump spent fighting to keep from paying it.
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The money didn’t come out of his pocket freely. It came from funds Trump was forced to deposit with the court years ago while he chased appeal after appeal. Every court said no. An appeals court repeatedly rejected him. Then, at the end of June, the Supreme Court, which includes three justices he appointed, refused to hear his case at all. No noted dissents. No explanation.
Even then, he tried to stall. His lawyers asked a judge to pause the payout while Trump begged the Supreme Court to reconsider. Judge Lewis Kaplan shut it down last week, writing that Trump “has been stalling this case for years” and that it was time for him to “do equity” and pay.
“Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll,” her lawyer Roberta Kaplan said. She said Carroll has now received the damages the jury awarded her.
This is only one of the two verdicts. A separate Manhattan jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million in January 2024, finding he defamed her when he denied her allegations.
That $18.3 million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages is still tied up in appeals.
