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E. Jean Carroll Receives $5.6 Million Payment From President Trump
The payment satisfied a 2023 civil judgment after the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal. A separate $83.3 million defamation judgment from 2024 remains under appeal.
Jul 14, 11:58 AM·1m read6 sources
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E. Jean Carroll received an electronic payment of $5,625,005.48 from President Donald Trump on July 13, 2026. The transfer satisfied a 2023 civil judgment in which a federal jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s and for defaming her in a 2022 social media post.
A federal judge in New York ordered the disbursement after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Trump's appeal. Trump had deposited $5.55 million into the federal Court Registry Investment System while the appeal was pending.
Carroll's attorney Roberta Kaplan said a unanimous nine-person jury found Trump liable three years earlier. In the 2022 post, Trump called the allegations a hoax and a lie and stated the woman was not his type. Trump posted on social media that he would continue the fight against the Carroll case with all of his power and strength.
In a separate 2024 trial, Trump was ordered to pay Carroll $83.3 million for defaming her in 2019, and he is continuing to appeal that judgment.
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