Attorneys for E. Jean Carroll on Tuesday requested a federal choose to order President Donald Trump to pay her the $5 million judgment a Manhattan jury mentioned she is owed after he was discovered accountable for sexual abuse and defamation.
The U.S. Supreme Courtroom this week, with no dissents, declined to hear Trump’s appeal of the decision and judgment.
Carroll’s attorneys mentioned in a brand new court docket submitting that Trump’s legal professionals advised them the president could ask the Supreme Courtroom to rethink.
The U.S. Supreme Courtroom denies President Donald Trump’s request to overview a judgement granting E. Jean Carroll $5 million for sexual abuse and defamation. NEW YORK, NEW YORK – SEPTEMBER 6: E. Jean Carroll leaves the courthouse on September 6, 2024 in New York Metropolis. Each events seem in court docket at this time as Trump’s legal professionals combat to overturn the jury’s discovering that he sexually abused E. Jean Carroll.
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“Defendant’s counsel contacted Carroll’s undersigned counsel to inquire whether or not Carroll would consent to an additional keep of enforcement of the judgment on this motion in order that Defendant can ask the Supreme Courtroom to rethink its denial of certiorari in her case,” Carroll’s legal professional Roberta Kaplan wrote.
“[A]fter 4 years of litigation throughout each degree of the federal court docket system, it’s time for this case to finish,” Kaplan wrote. “And beneath the Courtroom’s Stipulation and Order, Carroll is now entitled to acquire cost of the cash due beneath the judgment.”
The U.S. Supreme Courtroom, June 29, 2026.
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In a put up on his social media platform after the Supreme Courtroom rejected his attraction, Trump vowed to proceed to combat the case.
“I’ll proceed the combat in opposition to this Weaponization and Lawfare Case in opposition to me, together with the ridiculous declare of Defamation, with all of my energy and energy,” Trump mentioned within the put up.
A New York jury in 2023 held Trump accountable for sexually abusing Carroll within the dressing room of Bergdorf Goodman within the mid-Nineties and defaming her in 2022 when he denied her declare, and determined she is entitled to $5 million in damages.
The cash has been held in escrow pending the end result of Trump’s attraction.
President Donald Trump speaks within the Oval Workplace on the White Home in Washington, June 29, 2026.
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“Defendant Trump obtained a keep of execution pending attraction solely by explicitly agreeing that the funds positioned within the Courtroom’s account could be disbursed upon the circumstances set out within the Stipulation and Order. These circumstances have been happy when the Supreme Courtroom denied his petition for certiorari,” Kaplan wrote, including “It’s time for him to pay Carroll.”
In his attraction, Trump had argued that the choose within the case mustn’t have allowed the jury to view an excerpt from the notorious “Access Hollywood” tape, by which Trump is heard describing lewd conduct that he downplayed as “locker room speak.”
Trump additionally faulted the trial choose for permitting testimony from two ladies — Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff — who claimed that Trump had sexually assaulted them, which Trump denies.
