E. Jean Carroll Receives $5.63 Million Payment In Trump Sex Abuse Case

UPDATE: Writer E. Jean Carroll has been paid a damages amount of $5.63 million as part of her successful lawsuit against Donald Trump, after the president exhausted his appeals.

According to an entry in the docket of federal court in New York, the funds were transmitted to the law firm representing Carroll on Monday.

“The Eagle Has Landed,” Carroll wrote on her Substack page on Tuesday.

A jury awarded Carroll $5 million after ruling that Trump was liable for sexual abuse and defamation. It stemmed from a 1996 incident at a Manhattan department store, where Carroll claimed that Trump sexually abused her. Trump has denied the allegations, but Carroll also sued for defamation after his claim that she was spreading falsehoods.

Trump appeals, but the Supreme Court declined to take up the case last month. That left in place the verdict, and a judge ordered the funds released from a court escrow account. The figure paid includes interest, although it is slightly less than some earlier estimates.

Trump is also appealing a verdict in a separate proceeding, in which a jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million after finding him liable for defamation.

PREVIOUSLY: A federal judge ordered the release of around $5.8 million held in an escrow account to writer E. Jean Carroll after the Supreme Court declined to take Donald Trump’s appeal of a jury’s judgment that he was liable for sexually abusing and defaming her.

U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan issued the order on Wednesday, despite efforts by Trump’s attorneys to hold off on the disbursement as they pursue a rehearing before the Supreme Court, which declined their petition last month. Those rehearings, though, are very rare.

The funds represent a jury’s $5 million judgment, plus interest, after a 2023 trial. The funds were held in an account controlled by the court for more than three years.

After Kaplan’s most recent order, Trump’s legal team filed an appeal.

The jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Manhattan department store in 1996, and later claiming that her allegations were false.

In a separate proceeding, a Manhattan jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages after finding Trump liable for defamation. Trump’s legal team is appealing that verdict to the Supreme Court as well.

Kaplan wrote, “In the last analysis, defendant has been stalling this case for years. A jury unanimously concluded that he sexually abused and defamed plaintiff and awarded her damages accordingly. The judgment on that verdict has been upheld on appeal. En banc rehearing has been denied. The Supreme Court has denied certiorari without dissent. It is time for him to ‘do equity’ and pay the judgment.”