US President Donald Trump has paid more than $5.6 million in damages to writer E. Jean Carroll, three years after a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her in a civil case. Carroll’s legal team confirmed the payment, which includes the original damages award plus interest accumulated during Trump’s appeal process.
“Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her,” Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan said in a statement. Trump had sought to delay the payment while attempting to have the US Supreme Court review his appeal, but the judge overseeing the case ordered the payment to proceed.
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Carroll, a former magazine columnist, accused Trump of attacking her in the 1990s at a Manhattan department store and later defaming her through a 2022 post on his Truth Social platform, where he denied her allegations. In 2023, a New York jury found Trump liable and awarded Carroll $5 million in damages, a decision he has continued to deny.
The payment follows years of legal battles, with Trump’s legal team maintaining that the case was politically motivated and describing it as a “hoax” and “witch hunt.” Trump is also appealing a separate 2024 verdict in which another jury ordered him to pay Carroll nearly $84 million for defamation.
