U.S. President Donald Trump has paid more than $5.62 million to writer E. Jean Carroll in compliance with a court judgment stemming from a sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit, nearly three years after the case was decided.
Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, confirmed on Tuesday that her client had received the full amount awarded by the court. The payment includes the original **$5 million** in damages ordered by a jury, along with interest that accrued while Trump’s appeal was pending.
Trump had sought to delay the payment by asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case. However, a federal judge recently ordered him to satisfy the judgment. Trump’s legal team declined to comment following confirmation of the payment.
Carroll, an 82-year-old former magazine columnist, accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York during the mid-1990s. She also alleged that Trump defamed her by denying the accusation on his social media platform, Truth Social, in 2022.
In 2023, a New York jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation, awarding Carroll $5 million in damages. Trump has consistently denied the allegations, describing the case as politically motivated and maintaining that the claims are false.
In a separate defamation case decided in 2024, another jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll approximately $84 million in damages. Trump appealed that verdict, but a federal appeals court upheld the judgment. Legal proceedings related to that case are continuing.
