NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump has paid US$5.6 million to author E. Jean Carroll after a civil jury discovered he sexually assaulted and defamed her, a court docket submitting confirmed Tuesday (Jul 14).
“Three years in the past, a unanimous nine-person jury discovered President Trump chargeable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll,” Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan mentioned in a press release.
“Right now, we’re happy to report that she has acquired the damages fee the jury awarded her because of that verdict,” she added.
The US Supreme Court docket in late June refused to hear Trump’s appeal towards the unique Might 2023 judgment, basically making that call ultimate.
Carroll, a former journalist and columnist who’s now 82, accused the president of assaulting her in a dressing room of a New York division retailer in 1996.
When the allegations have been printed in a 2019 e-book, the Republican billionaire referred to as her a “nut job” and claimed she had fabricated her case.
In a separate defamation case in New York, Trump was ordered to pay US$83.3 million to Carroll. That judgment was upheld on attraction, however its enforcement stays suspended.
