5 hours agoTrump forced to pay E. Jean Carroll $5 million in compensation
Periskopi(7 hours ago)
(7 hours ago)US President Donald Trump paid to writer Jean Carroll more than $5 million in damages (3.7 million pounds) three years after he was convicted of sexual abuse and slander in a civil case, her lawyers confirmed, BBC Reported Periscope.
“Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the payment of compensation the jury gave her as a result of that” decision, Roberta Kaplan, a Carroll lawyer, said in a brief statement Tuesday.
Trump was pressing to postpone payment so that the Supreme Court could reconsider its decision not to listen to his appeal. But last week, the presiding judge ordered that he pay the compensation.
A representative from Trump's legal team refused to comment on the payment.
A statement by Carroll's legal team confirmed that it was paid more than $5.62m ($5m) in compensation plus interest collected during the appeal.
Carroll, a former magazine columnist who is now 82 years old, accused Trump of attacking him in the mid-1990s in a dressing room at a large Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan, and later slandered him on his Social Truth website in a 2022 post, denying her accusations.
In 2023 a New York jury unanimously awarded Carroll the compensation for her request. Trump denied the charges.
Trump deposited the damages in a court-controlled account immediately after the verdict, and they were held there while the appeals process took place./ Periscope.
