E. Jean Carroll and her attorneys Shawn Crowley and Roberta Kaplan react outside the Manhattan Federal Court after the verdict in the second civil trial after she accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago, in New York City on Jan. 26, 2024.
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Writer E. Jean Carroll has been paid more than $5.6 million that she was owed as part of a federal civil jury verdict holding President Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation, a court filing showed Tuesday.
A notice on the online docket in Carroll’s case against Trump in U.S. District Court in lower Manhattan indicates that $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to pay the law firm of Carroll’s attorney on July 9. The total comprises the $5 million in damages awarded in the jury’s May 2023 verdict, plus post-judgment interest that accrued in the subsequent three years.
A person close to Carroll confirmed to CNBC that the funds have been transferred to the writer.
“Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll,” Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, told CNBC in a statement.
“Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her as a result of that verdict,” Kaplan said.
Trump’s attorneys in the case did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
One day before the money was disbursed, federal Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered that Trump must pay Carroll, rejecting his last-ditch efforts to avoid doing so while noting that the president “has been stalling this case for years.”
Later that same day, a U.S. appeals court in New York denied Trump’s request to block Carroll from collecting the money, which Trump had deposited more than three years earlier following the jury verdict.
Trump had been found liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the Manhattan department store Bergdorf Goodman in the 1990s, then defaming her in 2019 after she went public with her claim about the encounter.
In a separate federal civil case centered on the defamation claim, a Manhattan jury in January 2024 ordered Trump to pay Carroll a total of $83.3 million in damages.
Trump has vehemently denied Carroll’s claims and filed numerous appeals in both cases. The Supreme Court in late June refused to hear Trump’s appeal of the sexual abuse and defamation verdict.
Trump is continuing to challenge the civil defamation verdict at a lower federal appeals court.
— CNBC’s Dan Mangan contributed to this report.
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