Supreme Court Declines to Review Both $5 Million and $83 Million Carroll Verdicts Against Trump

The U.S. Supreme Court on June 29, 2026, denied President Donald Trump's request to review a $5 million jury verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll. The brief order provided no explanation and noted no public dissents.

The decision leaves the judgment intact and requires Trump to pay the amount awarded by the jury. A New York federal jury in 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the mid-1990s inside a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in Manhattan and for defaming her in 2022 statements that called her allegations a hoax and a con job. The same jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages.

It found Trump liable for sexual abuse but rejected her claim that she was raped. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the verdict in 2024 and rejected Trump's request for en banc review in June 2025.

Trump's lawyers argued to the Supreme Court that the trial judge improperly admitted evidence of decades-old, unverified allegations. The 2nd Circuit had ruled that evidence, including the 2016 Access Hollywood tape, established a repeated pattern of conduct consistent with Carroll's allegations.

Carroll urged the Supreme Court to decline review, stating the appeals court had properly handled the evidence.

A separate federal jury in January 2024 awarded Carroll an additional $83 million in a related defamation case. Carroll first publicly alleged the assault in a 2019 book excerpt published in New York Magazine.