Writer E. Jean Carroll has asked a judge to order Donald Trump to pay around $5m (£3.7m) in damages awarded by a jury in a civil case that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation.
The request comes after the US Supreme Court declined to review Trump’s appeal in the case, effectively removing one of the final legal avenues available to challenge the ruling.
In May 2023, a New York jury awarded Carroll damages after finding that Trump sexually abused her in the 1990s and later defamed her by publicly calling her allegations a hoax. Trump has consistently denied the claims.
Carroll’s legal team stated that she had previously agreed to multiple requests from Trump to delay payment of the damages during the appeals process, but said that cooperation would now end.
They added that, including interest, the total amount owed has risen to nearly $5.8m. In their filing, her lawyers argued that after years of litigation across multiple levels of the federal court system, the case should now be brought to a close and the payment enforced.
E. Jean Carroll, a former magazine columnist now aged 82, has accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in the mid-1990s in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan. She also alleges that he later defamed her in a 2022 post on Truth Social in which he denied the claims.
Trump has repeatedly argued that the judge overseeing the civil trial, Lewis Kaplan, improperly allowed prejudicial evidence to be presented to the jury. However, a federal appeals court upheld the verdict last year, finding no legal errors that would justify a new trial.
Following the US Supreme Court’s decision on Monday not to take up Trump’s appeal, he again used Truth Social to reject Carroll’s allegations, calling the case false and describing it as part of what he terms “lawfare” and the “weaponization” of the legal system. He said he would continue to fight the ruling “with all of my power and strength.”
Carroll’s legal team has included that post in new filings submitted on Tuesday as part of their push to enforce payment of the damages.
Trump is also appealing a separate 2024 jury verdict that found him liable for defaming Carroll again, which resulted in an award of nearly $84m in damages. A panel of federal judges has already rejected his appeal in that case.
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