E. Jean Carroll Moves to Collect the $5 Million Trump Owes Her

Writer E. Jean Carroll asked a judge to distribute the $5.7 million in damages owed to her by President Donald Trump after the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal of the 2023 jury verdict that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation.

In a court filing submitted shortly after the Supreme Court released its decision on Monday, Carroll’s lawyers argued that Trump has hindered payment by “slow-roll[ing] his defenses, asserting or inventing a new one each time his prior effort to delay the case fails.”

Her lawyers contend that Trump appeared to “remarkably seek” further delay of payment by “considering whether to move for reconsideration of the Supreme Court’s denial of his petition.”

“But this is the end of the line,” the court document read.

Federal judge Lewis Kaplan has not yet signed the order.

Carroll alleged Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in 1996 and detailed the incident in her 2019 memoir. Trump has vigorously denied the accusation, telling a reporter from The Hill in 2019 that “she’s not my type.” Carroll filed a lawsuit shortly after, alleging he had defamed her character.

“I’ve never met this person in my life,” Trump said in a statement at the time. “She is trying to sell a new book; that should indicate her motivation. It should be sold in the fiction section.”

She was unable to seek damages because of a 20-year statute of limitations, but circumstances changed in 2022 when the state of New York passed the Adult Survivors Act, which allowed victims of sexual abuse to file lawsuits for time-expired cases for one year. Carroll also sued Trump in a separate case, seeking damages for battery relating to the assault, as well as defamation after Trump called her allegations a “complete con job” on social media.

A nine-person jury found Trump liable for both battery and defamation in 2023, requiring Trump to pay $5 million in damages to Carroll.

Trump vowed in a post to Truth Social on Tuesday to “continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength.”

“This Case is really against the United States of America, and all it stands for,” he continued, “and should never be allowed to happen to another President, or Candidate to be!”