Judge frees $5.8 million for E. Jean Carroll from Trump escrow
What's new: Trump's lawyers appealed within hours after the Supreme Court let the 2023 civil verdict stand.
A federal judge in New York ordered that E. Jean Carroll be paid the $5.8 million, including interest, that Donald Trump placed in escrow after a 2023 jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. Judge Lewis Kaplan issued the order after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Trump's appeal, making the civil judgment final. Carroll said Trump attacked her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in Manhattan in the mid-1990s and later defamed her by calling her account false. Trump denies the allegations. His lawyers quickly asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to block the payout. A separate $83 million defamation award to Carroll remains under appeal.