Trump loses appeal of $5 million verdict won by E. Jean Carroll

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30 December 2024 at 11:05 am·1-min read

Attorney John Sauer, center, presents arguments for former President Donald Trump, right, as E. Jean Carroll, second from right, looks on in Manhattan federal court, Sept. 6, 2024, in New York.

US President-elect Donald Trump on Monday failed in his attempt to overturn the verdict of a $5 million defamation case in the federal court of appeals. The three-judge panel upheld the verdict won by journalist E. Jean Carroll, in which Trump was found guilty of both sexual abuse and defamation.

A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump when a jury found the U.S. President-elect liable for sexually abusing and later defaming the former magazine columnist.

The decision was issued by a three-judge panel of the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan.

The May 2023 verdict stemmed from an incident around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan, where Carroll said Trump raped her, and an October 2022 Truth Social post where Trump denied Carroll's claim as a hoax.

Though jurors in federal court in Manhattan did not find that Trump committed rape, they awarded the former Elle magazine advice columnist $2.02 million for sexual assault and $2.98 million for defamation.

Both trials were overseen by U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan.

(Reuters)

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