Judge orders Trump to pay E. Jean Carroll $5.8 million after Supreme Court appeal rejection

President Trump paid E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million from a 2023 lawsuit, but he is now asking the court to overturn a much larger award that a jury ordered him to pay in 2024 for defaming her.

Donald Trump has made billions of dollars grifting the American public since returning to office, yet he’s still trying to find a way to weasel out of paying E. Jean Carroll.The president cannot accept the reality that he lost: Trump’s legal team demanded that the former Elle columnist repay him the $5.6 million that he was court-mandated to give her, The Independent reported Tuesday.The money was disbursed to Carroll from a court-controlled escrow account on July 9—three years after a nine-person jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the mid-1990s and defaming her in the early 2020s when she went public about the attack. Trump had done everything in his power to avoid paying Carroll her due, including attempting to take the case to the Supreme Court, although it ultimately refused to hear the case in June.“But rather than accept the reality that he had lost, [Trump] has engaged in a series of maneuvers trying desperately to forestall payment,” Carroll’s lawyers wrote in a legal filing Monday night, noting that the payment should have been the end of the case.“But Defendant now demands yet another unprecedented remedy,” Carroll’s attorneys continued. “The judgment here is final, the money has already been disbursed, and Carroll is entitled to keep it.”Her team added that each of the president’s attacks has a “domino effect” that subjects the writer to “ongoing and prolific harassment” from people who take Trump’s word as gospel, “including a multitude of death threats and other threats of physical injury.”The sum is just the tip of the iceberg for how much Trump owes Carroll, however. After the 2023 civil case, Trump tried and failed to sue Carroll for defamation, insisting, despite the jury’s determination, that he had not sexually abused her. A federal judge eventually ruled that Trump—not Carroll—was the liable party, as he had defamed the advice columnist by denying the sexual abuse on the basis that she wasn’t his “type,” and by accusing her of inventing the sexual assault allegations against him for the benefit of her book. A jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in that case, though Carroll has not yet seen a dime from that decision.

President Donald Trump already paid out millions in the sexual abuse and defamation case. Now he wants it back

US President Donald Trump has paid writer E Jean Carroll more than $5m (£3.7m) in damages, three years after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her in a civil case."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, Carroll's lawyer, said in a short statement on Tuesday.E. Jean Carroll collects more than $5M from Trump in sexual abuse and defamation case - NBC News https://t.co/wmw0c07ywM— Carmen (@CiCi77) July 15, 2026 Trump had sought to delay the payment while asking the US Supreme Court to reconsider its decision not to hear his appeal. However, last week, the judge overseeing the case ordered him to pay the damages. A representative for Trump's legal team declined to comment.Carroll's legal team said she received more than $5.62m, comprising the $5m damages awarded by the jury and the interest accrued during the appeal, BBC reports.Civil case stemmed from 1990s assault allegationCarroll, a former magazine columnist who is now 82, alleged that Trump attacked her in the mid-1990s in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. She also accused him of defaming her through a 2022 post on his Truth Social platform denying her allegations.In 2023, a New York jury unanimously awarded Carroll $5m in damages. Trump denied the allegations and deposited the amount into a court-controlled account shortly after the verdict, where it remained during the appeals process.Also Watch:Appeals rejected, separate case continuesTrump's lawyers criticised the ruling requiring the payment, describing the case as a "hoax" and "Witch Hunt" which they alleged had been funded by Democrats. Trump also repeatedly argued that Judge Lewis Kaplan had improperly admitted evidence that prejudiced the jury against him.A federal appeals court upheld the jury's verdict last year, ruling that Kaplan had not made errors warranting a new trial. The US Supreme Court declined to hear Trump's appeal last month, clearing the way for Carroll to receive the money.Carroll welcomed the decision on her Substack blog, writing: "WE WON!""THIS WIN IS FOR EVERY WOMAN IN THE WORLD!" Carroll wrote.Trump is also appealing a separate 2024 jury verdict that found him liable for defaming Carroll in another instance and awarded her nearly $84m. A federal appeals panel rejected that appeal last year.Massive Landslide In China's Chongqing Buries Homes, 1,100 Evacuated | VIDEO

Writer Jean Carroll gets million from Trump in sex abuse case

Writer E Jean Carroll has received $5.6 million in damages after the Supreme Court let a civil verdict against US President Donald Trump stand. The award stems from a jury finding that Trump sexually assaulted and defamed Carroll.