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E Jean Carroll asks judge to order Donald Trump to pay $5m he owes her

The Guardian · Jul 1, 2026, 12:15 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

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Move follows supreme court refusal to hear Trump’s appeal of civil case verdict in sexual abuse and defamation case The New York journalist E Jean Carroll asked a judge on Tuesday to mandate that Donald Trump pay her the $5m she is owed from a jury verdict that found the US president liable for sexually abusing her in the 1990s and defaming her after she publicly described in 2019 being attacked by him in a city department store.Lawyers for Carroll filed papers in a federal court in Manhattan one day after the US supreme court refused to hear Trump’s appeal of the civil case verdict in 2023. Continue reading...

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