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Trump's final appeal of E Jean Carroll sex abuse case rejected
BBC • • nation
Key Points:
- The US Supreme Court declined to hear President Donald Trump's appeal in the civil case where he was found to have defamed and sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll, upholding a $5 million damages award from a 2023 New York jury.
- The jury ruled that Trump sexually assaulted Carroll in the 1990s and defamed her by calling the incident a hoax on social media, though it rejected the claim of rape under New York law.
- Trump's legal team argued that evidence like the 2005 Access Hollywood tape should not have been shown to jurors, but both the federal appeals court and the Supreme Court refused to overturn the verdict.
- Carroll's attorney stated the Supreme Court's decision ends Trump's attempts to avoid accountability, while Trump vowed to continue fighting the case, calling it an injustice and politically motivated.
- In a related ruling, Trump was ordered to pay Carroll $83 million for defamation, a decision also upheld on appeal by federal judges.
