Writer E. Jean Carroll has received more than $5.6 million from President Donald Trump, court records show, three years after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her.
A court docket entry in the Southern District of New York showed $5,625,005.48 was disbursed on July 9 to Kaplan Martin LLP, the law firm representing Carroll. The payment reflects the $5 million jury award from 2023 plus post-judgment interest that accrued while the money sat in a court-controlled escrow account, where Trump had deposited it shortly after the verdict.
The release followed a last-ditch effort by Trump to keep the funds tied up. After the Supreme Court declined on June 29 to hear his appeal, Trump asked the justices on July 6 to reconsider that rejection, a request Judge Lewis Kaplan called a “wrongheaded claim” in denying it the same day, noting such successful filings are “extremely rare birds.” A federal appeals court separately denied Trump’s request for an emergency stay to block the transfer altogether.
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“Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll,” Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement. “Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her.”
Kaplan said in a court filing that Carroll, 82, doesn’t plan to touch the money until Trump’s reconsideration request is resolved and intends to put it toward her retirement.
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Carroll sued Trump in 2022 after New York temporarily lifted the statute of limitations on old sexual assault claims, alleging he assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the 1990s. The jury awarded her $5 million in that case. A second trial in 2024, over separate defamation statements Trump made after Carroll went public, resulted in an $83.3 million judgment against him that remains unpaid and under appeal.
