Carroll collects $5.6 million awarded to her by jury in sex abuse and defamation case against Trump

Writer E. Jean Carroll collected over $5.6 million that a jury awarded her in 2023 in a civil verdict against President Donald Trump. 

Carroll alleged Trump had sexually abused her in the dressing room of a luxury department store in Manhattan in 1996. Trump's attorneys have filed another appeal seeking to stop or reverse the payment, the Associated Press reported, and they vow to keep appealing.  

“We are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment,” Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement.

A federal judge ruled last week that Carroll could be paid the award, along with interest. Trump had paid the money, but it was set aside in an escrow account during the appeals process pending a court order. After the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of the verdict, Carroll's lawyers requested that the money be disbursed.