E. Jean Carroll and her lawyers Shawn Crowley and Roberta Kaplan react outside the Manhattan Federal Courthouse following the verdict in the second civil lawsuit accusing former US President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago in New York City on January 26, 2024.
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Author E. Jean Carroll has been paid more than $5.6 million as part of a federal civil jury’s verdict finding President Donald Trump liable for sexual assault and defamation, a court filing showed Tuesday.
A notice on the online docket in Carroll’s case against Trump in the U.S. District Court in lower Manhattan indicates that $5,625,005.48 was ordered to be paid to the law firm of Carroll’s attorney on July 9.
A person close to Carroll confirmed to CNBC that the funds have been transferred to the author.
“Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for the sexual harassment and defamation of E. Jean Carroll,” Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan told CNBC in a statement.
“Today, we are pleased to report that he has received the damages awarded by the jury as a result of that verdict,” Kaplan said.
Trump’s lawyers in the case did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment.
A day before the money was to be distributed, 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 the same day, a US appeals court in New York rejected Trump’s request to stop Carroll from collecting the money, which Trump had deposited with the court more than three years earlier following the jury verdict.
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