President Donald Trump has paid more than $5.6 million to E. Jean Carroll, satisfying a 2023 federal civil jury verdict that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation. The payment of $5,625,005.48, which includes post-judgment interest, was released from a court-held account on July 9 and disbursed to Carroll's attorneys.
Federal Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the release of funds after the Supreme Court refused on June 29 to hear Trump's appeal of the verdict. A U.S. appeals court in New York also denied Trump's request to block collection. The unanimous jury had found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll at Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s and defaming her in 2019, though it rejected her claim of rape.
The disbursement resolves the first of two civil cases. A separate Manhattan jury in January 2024 awarded Carroll $83.3 million for additional defamatory statements Trump made about her.