Donald Trump will have to pay the $5 million in damages that he owes writer E. Jean Carroll after the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal of the verdict.
Today’s decision is a most likely the end of Trump’s legal efforts to contest the jury verdict finding that he sexually abused Ms. Carroll in the mid-1990s in a department store dressing room.
Breaking News: The Supreme Court declined President Trump’s request to review a $5 million civil judgment against him after a jury found in 2023 that he sexually abused and defamed the writer E. Jean Carroll. https://t.co/q76TNHKLpK
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 29, 2026
From the New York Times:
In May 2023, a federal jury in New York found the president liable for sexually abusing and defaming Ms. Carroll.
The jury agreed that Ms. Carroll, a former magazine writer, had sufficiently shown that Mr. Trump sexually abused her in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store when the two crossed paths in the 1990s.
Further, the jury found that Mr. Trump had defamed Ms. Carroll by posting a statement on social media calling her case “a complete con job” and “a Hoax and a lie.”
In December 2024, a three-judge appeals court panel upheld the jury’s verdict, finding that Mr. Trump failed to show that the evidence had harmed his rights to a fair trial.
But wait! There’s more…
In January 2024, a separate jury ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million in damages for defaming her after she accused him of the sexual assault in 2019. Expect him to appeal that one at SCOTUS as well.
Trump continues to call Ms. Carroll’s allegations “fake.”
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