Judge releases $5.8 million in Carroll damages from Trump escrow
What's next: Trump's lawyers appealed within hours to try to block the payout after the Supreme Court let the 2023 verdict stand.
A federal judge ordered that E. Jean Carroll receive more than $5.8 million, including interest, from money Donald Trump placed in a court-controlled account after a 2023 civil verdict found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan issued the order Wednesday in New York after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Trump's appeal of the original judgment. Trump's lawyers quickly asked the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to stop the payment. The case stemmed from Carroll's claim that Trump attacked her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in Manhattan in the mid-1990s and later defamed her by denying it publicly.