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The payment comes three years after a jury found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer.
E. Jean Carroll receives $5.6 million from Trump in sexual abuse and defamation case, three years after a jury found President Trump liable.
Sky News – US The payment comes three years after a jury found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer.
NPR – US The payment comes three years after a jury found President Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer.
BBC News – World The president had sought to delay the payment as he tried to persuade the Supreme Court to overturn the judgement.
Sky News – US The writer E Jean Carroll has received a multimillion dollar payout more than three years after she was awarded it by the jury in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump.
Funds released from escrow account after president’s efforts to block sexual abuse and defamation award fail A Manhattan federal court has released more than $5.6m that Donald Trump owes E Jean Carroll in her successful 2023 sexual abuse and defamation trial against him, records reveal. The disbursement, made public in a 14 July entry on Carroll’s case docket, indicates that the funds were released by a court-held a…
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