Trump Formally Accepts Defeat in $5 Million E. Jean Carroll Sexual Abuse Lawsuit
Trump agreed to dismiss the appeal with prejudice, ending his bid to recover the $5,625,005.48 paid to Carroll’s lawyers.
- On Tuesday, President Donald Trump formally dropped his final challenge to the $5.6 million payout awarded to writer E. Jean Carroll, dismissing the appeal with prejudice, meaning he cannot bring it again.
- The payout, totaling around $5.8 million with interest, had already been disbursed to Carroll in July after the Supreme Court declined to intervene, rendering Trump's motion to claw back funds moot.
- Trump's attorney, Josh Halpern, signed a 70-word agreement with Carroll's legal team to dismiss the appeal, while a spokesperson characterized the case as part of ongoing "Witch Hunts."
- Despite the resolution of this appeal, Carroll remains involved in separate litigation against Trump, as she continues to await payment of $83 million from a different 2023 defamation verdict.
- The withdrawal marks a rare procedural concession from Trump, who has consistently contested the 2023 jury verdict finding him liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s.
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U.S. President Donald Trump gave up on Tuesday a trial that he opened to suspend the application of a court ruling by which, after he was definitively convicted in a civil trial for sexual assault and defamation, he was forced to pay the former journalist Jean Carroll moral damage of $5.6 million.
Donald Trump’s E. Jean Carroll $5 Million Legal Fight Has Reached Its End
Photo Credit: Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images President Donald Trump has officially ended his court battle over the $5 million judgment E. Jean Carroll won against him in 2023. The Second Circuit Court of Appeals revealed the development on Tuesday, confirming that he will no longer contest the financial outcome of the sexual abuse and defamation case. Donald Trump agreed to dismiss his remaining fight over the 2023 $5 million verdict Trump agr…
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Trump formally accepts defeat in $5 million E. Jean Carroll sexual abuse lawsuit
The July 9 release of funds to Carroll was triggered after the nation’s highest court declined to take up Trump's appeal at the end of its term in June. Trump tried to claw back the money and asked the justices to reconsider, but they shot him down again in August.
Trump quietly caves on $5.6M payout as E. Jean Carroll case ends: 'A first'
President Donald Trump dropped his final challenge to the $5.6 million payout to writer E. Jean Carroll, ending the case she won against him in 2023.Trump agreed to dismiss his appeal "with prejudice," meaning he can never bring it again, according to a Sept. 25 order from the U.S. Court of Appeals ...
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