President Donald Trump officially paid magazine writer E. Jean Carroll more than $5.6 million that he owed her after a jury found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation.
More than three years after the jury’s verdict, the president transferred $5,625,005.48 to Carroll on July 9, according to a court filing submitted in the case Tuesday.
“Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll. Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her as a result of that verdict,” Roberta Kaplan, an attorney representing Carroll, said in a statement.
The millions of dollars in damages, plus interest, had been held in a court-controlled bank account since the verdict came down in 2023.
But earlier this month, a federal judge ordered the president to finally pay Carroll after Trump exhausted his appeals in the case.
The Supreme Court, which has typically been friendly to Trump, had also rejected the president’s request for justices to intervene, which Carroll called “A WIN IS FOR EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD!”
The $5 million jury verdict stems from a civil lawsuit Carroll brought against Trump after she accused him of raping her in a Manhattan department store’s dressing room in the 1990s in her 2019 memoir “What Do We Need Men For? A Modest Proposal.”
Trump denied Carroll’s accusations and accused the advice columnist and author of making up the story to sell more books. In an October 2022 Truth Social post, Trump claimed he had nothing to do with Carroll, did not know her and would have no interest in knowing her if given the chance.
Trump did not attend the 2023 civil trial and his attorney called no witnesses.
Ultimately, a New York jury determined that while a preponderance of evidence did not support Carroll’s allegation of rape, it did support a lesser degree of sexual abuse. They also determined Trump defamed Carroll with false statements and awarded her $5 million in damages.
Trump’s consistent denial of Carroll’s allegations also sparked a second defamation trial in 2024, in which a jury was asked to award Carroll damages for additional defamatory statements the president made in which he claimed to have never met Carroll and called her a liar.
That jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million – which Trump is also appealing and likely going to bring to the Supreme Court.
