Attorneys for E. Jean Carroll on Tuesday requested a federal decide to order President Donald Trump to pay her the $5 million judgment a Manhattan jury stated she is owed after he was discovered answerable for sexual abuse and defamation.
The U.S. Supreme Court docket this week, with no dissents, declined to hear Trump’s appeal of the decision and judgment.
Carroll’s attorneys stated in a brand new courtroom submitting that Trump’s legal professionals advised them the president might ask the Supreme Court docket to rethink.
The U.S. Supreme Court docket denies President Donald Trump’s request to evaluate a judgement granting E. Jean Carroll $5 million for sexual abuse and defamation. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 6: E. Jean Carroll leaves the courthouse on September 6, 2024 in New York Metropolis. Each events seem in courtroom right now as Trump’s legal professionals battle to overturn the jury’s discovering that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll.
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“Defendant’s counsel contacted Carroll’s undersigned counsel to inquire whether or not Carroll would consent to an additional keep of enforcement of the judgment on this motion in order that Defendant can ask the Supreme Court docket to rethink its denial of certiorari in her case,” Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan wrote.
“[A]fter 4 years of litigation throughout each degree of the federal courtroom system, it’s time for this case to finish,” Kaplan wrote. “And underneath the Court docket’s Stipulation and Order, Carroll is now entitled to acquire cost of the cash due underneath the judgment.”
The U.S. Supreme Court docket, June 29, 2026.
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In a publish on his social media platform after the Supreme Court docket rejected his enchantment, Trump vowed to proceed to battle the case.
“I’ll proceed the battle towards this Weaponization and Lawfare Case towards me, together with the ridiculous declare of Defamation, with all of my energy and power,” Trump stated within the publish.
A New York jury in 2023 held Trump answerable for sexually abusing Carroll within the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman within the mid-Nineteen Nineties and defaming her in 2022 when he denied her declare, and determined she is entitled to $5 million in damages.
The cash has been held in escrow pending the result of Trump’s enchantment.
President Donald Trump speaks within the Oval Workplace on the White Home in Washington, June 29, 2026.
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“Defendant Trump obtained a keep of execution pending enchantment solely by explicitly agreeing that the funds positioned within the Court docket’s account could be disbursed upon the situations set out within the Stipulation and Order. These situations had been happy when the Supreme Court docket denied his petition for certiorari,” Kaplan wrote, including “It’s time for him to pay Carroll.”
In his enchantment, Trump had argued that the decide within the case shouldn’t have allowed the jury to view an excerpt from the notorious “Access Hollywood” tape, by which Trump is heard describing lewd conduct that he downplayed as “locker room speak.”
Trump additionally faulted the trial decide for permitting testimony from two ladies — Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff — who claimed that Trump had sexually assaulted them, which Trump denies.
