NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump has paid US$5.6 million to author E. Jean Carroll after a civil jury discovered he sexually assaulted and defamed her, a court docket submitting confirmed Tuesday (Jul 14).
“Three years in the past, a unanimous nine-person jury discovered President Trump accountable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll,” Carroll’s legal professional Roberta Kaplan stated in an announcement.
“At present, we’re happy to report that she has obtained the damages cost the jury awarded her on account of that verdict,” she added.
The US Supreme Court docket in late June refused to hear Trump’s appeal in opposition to the unique Might 2023 judgment, primarily making that call ultimate.
Carroll, a former journalist and columnist who’s now 82, accused the president of assaulting her in a dressing room of a New York division retailer in 1996.
When the allegations had been printed in a 2019 e book, the Republican billionaire known as her a “nut job” and claimed she had fabricated her case.
In a separate defamation case in New York, Trump was ordered to pay US$83.3 million to Carroll. That judgment was upheld on enchantment, however its enforcement stays suspended.
