Supreme Court Finalizes Trump’s $5.6 Million Carroll Payment as Rehearing Bid Fails
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Updated · CNN · Aug 17
Supreme Court Finalizes Trump’s $5.6 Million Carroll Payment as Rehearing Bid Fails
3 articles · Updated · CNN · Aug 17
Summary
$5.6 million owed by Donald Trump to E. Jean Carroll is now effectively locked in after the Supreme Court refused to reconsider its June rejection of his appeal.
The ruling ends Trump’s path in Carroll’s 2022 civil case, where a jury found he sexually abused and defamed her and awarded $5 million, later rising with interest.
No justice publicly dissented, and Trump had already paid the money under a lower-court order while Carroll’s lawyers said it would remain in an interest-bearing account until rehearing was denied.
Trump had argued the trial was tainted by testimony from two other women and the 2005 Access Hollywood tape, but the 2nd Circuit previously found no errors warranting a new trial.
A separate Carroll judgment of about $83 million from her 2019 defamation case is still pending at the Supreme Court.