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The more than $5 million that President Donald Trump owed writer E. Jean Carroll was paid out Monday, court filings show, after Trump unsuccessfully and repeatedly challenged the jury verdict finding him liable for defamation and sexual assault and tried to delay the payment.
E. Jean Carroll attends The Golden Probes Awards Gala at Sony Hall on November 3, 2025 in New York City.
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A payment of $5,625,005.48 was disbursed to Carroll and her attorneys on Monday, a court filing shows, after a federal judge rejected Trump’s effort to further delay the payment.
A jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5 million in 2023—plus interest that’s since accrued on that amount—finding him liable for assaulting Carroll in the 1990s and then defaming her after she went public with the allegations.
That payment has been tied up in the years since as Trump has tried to appeal the ruling, with an appeals court repeatedly rejecting his case and the Supreme Court refusing to hear it.
After the Supreme Court rejected the case, Carroll’s attorneys notified the court that Trump was still trying to delay paying Carroll, claiming the president was still considering asking the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision—something the high court does in only the rarest of cases.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected that effort to pause the ruling last week, noting Trump “has been stalling this case for years,” and an appeals court rejected the president’s last-ditch effort to stall the payment.
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