LUS President Donald Trump paid $5.6 million to author E. Jean Carroll after a jury found him civilly liable for sexually assaulting and then defaming her, according to a court document released Tuesday.
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“Today, we are pleased to announce that she has received payment of the damages the jury awarded her as a result of this decision” dating back to May 2023, E’s lawyer said. Jean Carroll, Roberta Kaplan, in a press release.
At the end of June, the Supreme Court rendered this final judgment by refusing to examine the appeal filed by Donald Trump, following which a federal judge had ordered the payment of this sum last week.
In this case, the former journalist and columnist, now 82 years old, accuses the Republican president of having attacked her in a fitting room of a New York department store in 1996.
When these allegations were made public, during a book published in 2019, the billionaire called her “crazy” having set up a “phony business”.
In another defamation proceeding in New York, Mr. Trump was ordered to pay Ms. Carroll $83.3 million. This conviction was confirmed on appeal, but its execution remains suspended pending the Supreme Court’s decision on a possible referral.
