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E. Jean Carroll receives $5.6M payment from Trump

writersJul 15, 202614910,271

A court-ordered transfer of $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to E. Jean Carroll after a federal jury found President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming Carroll. Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the payment after the Supreme Court declined to take up Trump’s petition, and the transfer to Carroll’s attorneys was recorded on the court docket. Carroll’s lawyers said she will place the award in an interest-bearing account until any petition for rehearing is denied and that they will not take legal fees from the award. Trump’s legal team sought to block or stay the payment, asking a federal appeals court to intervene and to return funds to a court-controlled account if necessary; the appeals court has not granted an injunction. The original jury in May 2023 awarded Carroll $5 million in the sexual-abuse and defamation case; a separate jury later awarded $83 million for defamatory statements from 2019, which remains under appeal. Carroll, who is 82, testified at trial about an assault in a New York department store in the mid 1990s, and her attorney Roberta Kaplan confirmed receipt of the damages payment.

Katie Phang
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"President Trump has paid the writer E. Jean Carroll $5.6 million that was owed to her as a result of a jury’s finding that he was liable for sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s and then defaming her." www.nytimes.com/2026/07/14/n...

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