Trump Pays $5.6 Million to E. Jean Carroll After Jury Verdict

President Donald Trump has transferred $5.6 million to writer E. Jean Carroll following a federal jury’s 2023 verdict that he sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s and subsequently defamed her. The payment, which had been held in escrow during Trump’s appeals, was released after the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear his latest challenge to the judgment, prompting the presiding judge to order the disbursement. > "She has received the damages payment the jury awarded her as a result of that verdict," said Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s attorney, in a statement. The case marks the conclusion of a multi-year legal battle that began with Carroll’s 2019 accusation and resulted in a civil judgment against Trump for both assault and defamation.