E. Jean Carroll to Be Paid $5.8M in Trump Sex Abuse and Defamation Case

UNITED STATES – Writer, E. Jean Carroll, can collect $5.8M held in escrow since a jury found that U.S. President Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed her, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.

Trump’s lawyers immediately appealed but were denied an emergency order to block the payment from being made.

Trump deposited the money in an account shortly after a jury ruled against him in 2023.

The jury found Trump attacked Carroll in 1996 in the dressing room of a luxury Manhattan department store, and defamed her after she described it publicly in a 2019 memoir, during his first term as president.

Trump called her allegations false and said, quote, “she’s not my type.”