{"id":752326,"date":"2026-07-09T10:05:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752326\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T10:05:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T10:05:08","slug":"judge-orders-5-8m-be-paid-to-e-jean-carroll-in-trump-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/752326\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders $5.8M be paid to E. Jean Carroll in Trump case"},"content":{"rendered":"

A US court has ordered that writer E. Jean Carroll<\/a> be paid $5.8 million (\u20ac5 million) in damages, years after a jury found US President Donald Trump guilty of sexually assaulting and defaming her.<\/p>\n

US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan ruled that the money, which had long been held in escrow, be released to the former Elle Magazine columnist.<\/p>\n

“Defendant has been stalling this case for \u200byears,” Kaplan wrote, detailing his decision. “It is time for him to ‘do equity’ and pay the judgment,” the memorandum read.<\/p>\n

This comes after the US Supreme Court refused to hear Trump’s appeal<\/a> against the original verdict<\/a> in 2023, which ordered him to pay $2 million in damages for sexual assault and $3 million for defamatory statements.<\/p>\n

The remaining $800,000 is interest accrued.<\/p>\n

The 82-year-old first accused Trump of assaulting her in a New York City department store in a memoire published in 2019. Trump was serving his first term as president\u00a0at the time.<\/p>\n

He had accused her of making false allegations<\/a>, denied having known her and said “she’s not my type” in an interview.<\/p>\n

Trump attempts to block payment<\/p>\n

Lawyers representing the US president said they would continue to appeal and claimed the verdict was part of a political conspiracy.<\/p>\n

“The American people stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll \u200cHoaxes,” a spokesperson said in a statement following Kaplan’s order.<\/p>\n

In appellate papers, they argued that Kaplan’s decision should not be executed since Trump had asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision.<\/p>\n

Late on Wednesday, a judge of the US Circuit Court of Appeals rejected their request to stop the money from being transferred.<\/p>\n

“Carroll has waited more than three years for a jury’s verdict to be paid. She should not have to wait any longer,” Carroll’s lawyers wrote in a filing with the appellate court.<\/p>\n

“It is time this case comes to an end,” they wrote.<\/p>\n

Trump is also appealing<\/a> an\u00a0$83.3 million payment verdict<\/a> in a defamation case granted to Carroll by a different Manhattan jury in 2024.<\/p>\n

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