The writer E. Jean Carroll has collected over $5.6 million that a jury awarded in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against President Donald Trump, court records and her lawyers said.
The payment — representing the $5 million jury award, plus interest — was made Monday from an account where it had been held in escrow since the 2023 verdict, according to court records. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, confirmed the payment Tuesday.
“We are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment,” Kaplan said in a statement.
Trump’s lawyers have vowed to continue appealing.
Trump deposited the money in an escrow account shortly after the jury ruled against him. The U.S. Supreme Court recently let the civil verdict stand, clearing the way for Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to release the money.
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Trump’s lawyers then sought but were denied an emergency order to block the payment. The one-sentence denial set no conditions on how Carroll may use the money. Her lawyers have said in court papers that she plans to put it in a retirement account.
Trump’s attorneys have since filed another appeal seeking to stop or reverse the payment.
The jury found Trump attacked Carroll in 1996 in a New York luxury department store dressing room and defamed her after she told the story publicly in a memoir in 2019, during his first term as president.
Trump insisted nothing sexual happened between him and Carroll, now 82, a former advice columnist. Trump claimed she was “totally lying” and “ not my type ” in a 2019 interview. He said he didn’t know her, dismissing a 1987 photo of them and their then-spouses at a party as inconsequential, and he accused her of harboring political motives and trying to sell books at his expense.
Trump didn’t attend the trial, where Carroll testified that their flirtatious and friendly chance encounter at the department store turned violent.
Carroll sued Trump after New York changed its laws to give sexual abuse survivors a fresh chance to sue over attacks that happened in the distant past.
Trump is also appealing $83 million in defamation compensation granted to Carroll by a separate Manhattan jury after a 2024 trial where Trump briefly testified.
This woman is a nutjob and not even considered as r@pe worthy. She is ugly with a very low I.Q. and I wouldn’t do her with McConnell’s dead hog.
She doesn’t even know when her make believe r@pe happened or even what year it happened during.
It is hard to defend yourself against a vague accusation like this but NY is communist now, so there is that.
This payout is the biggest grift she will ever get, but the last laugh is on her because I make $5.8 million faster than she can say ” five point eight million”
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
-DJT
False accusers should be put in prison. Here and in the US. Dislike Trump but this lady is so full of it.
So she’s gotten the lesser judgement, but the bigger one denied her. Ms. Carrol is a serial accuser. She went after her own dentist, a former CBS executive, Les Moonves (Who was behind the cancellation of Enterprise) and several others, having claimed that being assault is sexy. This woman needs a lot more help than her judgement gets her.
The justice system that allowed this woman to sue was so corrupt. A democrat judge actually changed the law to allow for civil suits timeframe to be extended . She had zero evidence and don’t even remember what year it happened . But anyways for all the TDS crowd cheering enjoy it a corrupt system is giving her a few million but sadly the orange monster got re-elected and his net worth has gone up by an estimated 2.5billion since the election ….even when losing he is winning . Elbows up Carney is doing the same thing and Sleepy joe and his drug addict son ripped off Americans as well. All politicians are corrupt it appears these days but only some people have TDS
…maple maga incels busy on here today…trump must literally be seething being held accountable. More than ketchup will be flyin’ I am betting…
The woman is a liar and lunatic. Look for the video where she shows off all the trees around her house that she has painted white.
Finally some justice! Trump must be absolutely furious.
Next all the Epstein victims!
Hit all those elite sexual abusers where it hurts!
She really milked the Trump.hate for everything she could get
Trump puts it in me nightly and I never get paid…..damn it. Elbows & rectum up
tRump = client #1