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A judge on Wednesday authorised the payment of a multimillion-dollar award to magazine writer E. Jean Carroll to satisfy a 2023 civil verdict in which a jury found US President ‌Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her.
US District Judge Lewis Kaplan in Manhattan ordered the disbursement of nearly US$5.8 million to the former Elle magazine advice columnist, representing the original US$5 million verdict plus interest.
The funds had been held in escrow while Trump appealed the verdict, but the US Supreme Court on June 29 declined to take up the Republican president’s case. None of the nine justices, including three appointed by Trump, noted dissents.
Trump appealed against Kaplan’s order to the federal appeal court in Manhattan, less than an hour after the judge ⁠issued it.
“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 Hoaxes,” a spokesman for Trump’s lawyers said in a statement.
Lawyers for Carroll had no immediate comment.

In a Tuesday night court filing, Trump’s lawyers said Carroll should wait to collect ‌damages until after the Supreme Court reviewed Trump’s renewed bid to overturn the verdict.
The lawyers said Trump would be irreparably ⁠harmed and face “unrecoverable loss” if Carroll fulfils her stated intention to give away the money, because once she does the money probably could not be recovered.
They also said letting Carroll recover, only to have the Supreme ‌Court grant a rehearing, would “undermine public confidence in an orderly judicial process” at a time when Trump’s supporters and some critics, according to his lawyers, voice “concerns about politically motivated weaponisation of the legal ‌system”.
Trump submitted ‌a petition to the Supreme Court on Wednesday to rehear his appeal. The Supreme Court rarely takes up appeals after initially turning them down.
Carroll, 82, and Trump, 80, have battled in court for nearly seven years, after Carroll first publicly accused the president of raping her ⁠around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.
Trump has rejected Carroll’s claims as a hoax and “con job”, denying he knew ⁠her and saying she made up the alleged rape to help sell her memoir.


Jurors awarded Carroll US$5 million based on a Trump denial in 2022, though they did not find that Trump raped her.
A different jury in January 2024 ordered Trump to pay ‌Carroll US$83.3 million in damages based on ‌his original denial in 2019, which occurred during his first White House term.
Trump has said he deserves presidential immunity for that denial.
Last September, the 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan declined to throw out the US$83.3 million verdict.
Trump plans to appeal that decision to the Supreme Court, and his lawyers said a successful appeal could undermine the basis for the US$5 million verdict.
Carroll has accused Trump of stalling both lawsuits to avoid accountability.


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E. Jean Carroll leaves the courthouse in New York in September 2024. Photo: TNS

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Former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll, in 2024. Photo: TNS

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E. Jean Carroll in 2024. Donald Trump has denied all wrongdoing and is still in legal battles with the former columnist. Photo: AP

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Writer E. Jean Carroll outside Manhattan federal appeal court in 2024.  File photo: AFP

Donald Trump and E. Jean Carroll in court in 2024. Courtroom sketch by Jane Rosenberg via Reuters

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