New York writer E. Jean Carroll received the $5 million plus interest that she won from U.S. President Donald Trump in her sexual abuse lawsuit three years ago, days after Trump failed to sway a judge to block the transfer during a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
A total of $5.6 million was transferred Monday by the U.S. court system, which had been holding the money, to an account set up for Carroll by her lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, according to a docket entry in the civil case in New York on Tuesday.
A judge ordered the transfer after the Supreme Court on June 29 left intact a jury¡¯s verdict finding that Trump sexually abused Carroll in 1996 and defamed her in a 2022 social-media post that called her claims a ¡°hoax¡± and a ¡°complete con job¡± and said that Carroll ¡°is not my type!¡±
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