{"id":1964,"date":"2026-07-08T23:12:35","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:12:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2026-07-08T23:12:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:12:35","slug":"judge-orders-release-of-more-than-5-million-due-to-e-jean-carroll-in-trump-sex-abuse-defamation-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usnews-14267fa.ingress-comporellon.ewp.live\/?p=1964","title":{"rendered":"Judge orders release of more than $5 million due to E. Jean Carroll in Trump sex abuse, defamation case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><script>\r\n  atOptions = {\r\n    'key' : '644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6',\r\n    'format' : 'iframe',\r\n    'height' : 90,\r\n    'width' : 728,\r\n    'params' : {}\r\n  };\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.highperformanceformat.com\/644b717812d811d6a1c1fc5b6ccd6fa6\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>Despite last-minute protests from lawyers for President Trump, a federal judge has ordered the court to release $5 million, plus interest, won by the writer E. Jean Carroll when a 2023 civil jury found Mr. Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation.<\/p>\n<p>The money had been held in a court-controlled bank account for three years, and Mr. Trump said in recent filings he wanted it to remain there.<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear when exactly the funds will be transferred. Trump&#8217;s lawyers immediately filed a notice of appeal, contesting the judge&#8217;s order.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll and her lawyers have been seeking the money in the days since the Supreme Court declined on June 29 to hear Mr. Trump&#8217;s appeal of the case, at the time <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/supreme-court-trump-e-jean-carroll-sexual-abuse-case\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">seemingly<\/a><\/span> putting the matter to rest. But Mr. Trump has asked the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision, and in a filing Tuesday night, argued that the lower court federal judge who presided over the case should delay disbursing the money Carroll won until the Supreme Court again weighs in.<\/p>\n<p>Carroll, for her part, has sought and been granted by the judge a faster-than-normal schedule to receive the $5 million in damages awarded to her by the jury, plus hundreds of thousands in interest compiled since the case was decided in 2023.<\/p>\n<p>Her lawyer Roberta Kaplan has called Mr. Trump&#8217;s latest Supreme Court effort &#8220;gamesmanship,&#8221; while accusing the president of trying &#8220;to buy time so he can try to concoct some new basis to put off paying&#8221; Carroll.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump vowed to fight paying Carroll soon after the unanimous federal jury concluded, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/e-jean-carroll-trump-rape-lawsuit-jury-deliberations\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">under three hours<\/a>, that he more likely than not sexually abused Carroll by forcibly inserting his fingers into her during a 1990s encounter in a department store. Mr. Trump has emphatically denied her allegations since they were first raised in 2019.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His denials, which include claiming to have not known Carroll, saying Carroll is &#8220;not my type,&#8221; and calling her story a &#8220;hoax&#8221; and a &#8220;con,&#8221; are crucial to her defamation allegations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Carroll won a separate defamation trial against Mr. Trump, a case that also revolved around his repeated denials of having abused her. In that case, the jury awarded Carroll more than $83 million.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump has also asked the Supreme Court to weigh in on that case, and this week said in asking it to reconsider the decision on the $5 million 2023 trial, that he believes constitutional claims in the second matter will overlap with the first.<\/p>\n<p>The arguments that the Supreme Court declined to hear in the $5 million matter revolved around whether the trial judge allowed inadmissible evidence. In the $83 million case, Mr. Trump is arguing presidential immunity should have prevented the jury from being shown certain defamatory statements made during Mr. Trump&#8217;s first term in office.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court has not weighed in on Mr. Trump&#8217;s latest effort.<\/p>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n<\/section>\n<p>  <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation  \">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">More from CBS News<\/h3>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"component__item-recirc-block\">\n<p><h3 class=\"component__title\">Go deeper with The Free Press<\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<section class=\"content__body--footer\">\n      <!-- tags --><\/p>\n<section class=\"content__tags\">\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/section><\/div>\n<script async=\"async\" data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/pl30214220.effectivecpmnetwork.com\/9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\/invoke.js\"><\/script>\r\n<div id=\"container-9ab3d4df8a7e1a6171e16ddbf732cc19\"><\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Despite last-minute protests from lawyers for President Trump, a federal judge has ordered the court to release $5 million, plus interest, won by the writer E. 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