E Jean Carroll demands Donald Trump pay $5.8m in damages from 2019 case

Summary

Writer E Jean Carroll is demanding that United States President Donald Trump pay the $5m a civil court awarded her in damages, after the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal. On Wednesday, Judge Lewis Kaplan agreed that Carroll could pursue the payment on an expedited basis. He called on Trump’s legal team to respond no later than July 7. A day earlier, Carroll’s lawyers urged the court to act. In legal filings , they have accused the Trump team of having “slow-rolled” the payout by “asserting or inventing a new [defence] each time his prior effort to delay the case fails”. Trump has been battling Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, since she published an excerpt from her memoir in 2019. In the segment, she alleged that Trump raped her around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan. Trump denied Carroll’s claims, saying she lied about the accusations. That case cited a Truth Social post Trump had written calling her a “complete con job” and dismissing her accusations as a “scam” and “hoax”. On Monday, however, the Supreme Court refused to hear his petition for the $5m jury decision to be overturned, allowing lower court rulings to stand.