Trigger Warning: This article includes discussion of alleged sexual assault, with details.
Writer E. Jean Carroll has received $5.63 million from Donald Trump after a jury found the 80-year-old president liable for sexual abuse and defamation. According to court records, the money previously held in an escrow account has been released to Carroll’s legal team. The payment totaled $5,625,005.48 after interest was added.
The payment follows the end of Donald Trump’s appeal of the 2023 sexual abuse and defamation judgment’
In an emailed statement, Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan confirmed that the funds had been released, as per NBC News. The attorney said, “We are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her as a result of that verdict.”
Forbes reported that Trump was ordered in 2023 to pay Carroll $5 million plus interest for defamation and sexual abuse. However, the payment was put on hold while he appealed the ruling, a process that concluded on June 29.
Carroll, a former magazine columnist who is now 82, alleged that Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room, an allegation he has consistently denied. When she went public in 2019, Trump dismissed her claims and said she was not “his type,” prompting her to sue him for defamation.
According to Al Jazeera, Carroll also filed a second civil suit in 2022 alleging defamation and battery under New York’s Adult Survivors Act. In this case, which concluded in January 2024, a jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages. However, Trump subsequently dismissed Carroll’s accusations as a “scam” and “hoax” and claimed she made them up to boost sales of her June 2025 memoir, Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President.
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Originally reported by Meenakshi Sengupta on Reality Tea
