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Judge orders $5.8M be paid to E. Jean Carroll in Trump case
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Key Points:
- A US court has ordered former President Donald Trump to pay writer E. Jean Carroll $5.8 million in damages after a jury found him guilty of sexually assaulting and defaming her.
- The payment, held in escrow for years, is now to be released following a ruling by US District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who criticized Trump's delays in settling the case.
- The damages include $2 million for sexual assault, $3 million for defamation, and $800,000 in accrued interest, following the US Supreme Court's refusal to hear Trump's appeal in 2023.
- Trump's legal team continues to appeal and claims the verdict is politically motivated, but a US Circuit Court of Appeals judge denied their request to halt the payment transfer.
- Carroll first accused Trump of assault in a 2019 memoir, and she is also pursuing an $83.3 million defamation verdict from a separate case against Trump.
