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E. Jean Carroll receives $5.6 million in damages from Trump : NPR
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Key Points:
- Writer E. Jean Carroll has received $5.625 million in damages from President Trump in her sexual abuse and defamation case, including three years of interest on the original $5 million jury award from 2023.
- A Manhattan federal jury found Trump liable for sexually assaulting Carroll and defaming her, stemming from allegations she made in a 2019 memoir about an incident in 1996.
- Trump denied the sexual assault claim and accused Carroll of lying with ulterior motives, leading her to sue him for defamation.
- The payment was delayed due to Trump's appeals, but a U.S. District Judge ordered the payment after the Supreme Court declined to hear Trump's appeal last week.
- The White House referred requests for comment to Trump's personal lawyers, who have not responded.
