The writer E. Jean Carroll is $5.6 million richer thanks to a payment Bt President Donald Trump.
A jury awarded Carroll more than $5.6 million in her Sexual Abuse and defamation lawsuit against the president, per court records and her lawyers.
The payment, which included interest, was made Monday from an account where it had been held in escrow since the 2023 verdict, according to court records.
Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, confirmed Tuesday the payment was received.
“We are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment,” Kaplan said in a statement.
Trump’s lawyers have said they will continue to appeal.
Trump deposited the money in an escrow account shortly after the jury ruled in Carroll’s favor.
The U.S. Supreme Court recently let the civil verdict stand. This cleared the way for Judge Lewis A. Kaplan to release the funds.
Trump’s lawyers were denied an emergency order to block the payment.
The one-sentence denial set no conditions on how Carroll may use the money.
Her lawyers have noted in court papers that she plans to put it in a retirement account.
Trump’s attorneys have since filed another appeal seeking to stop or reverse the payment.
The jury found Trump attacked Carroll in 1996 in a New York luxury department store dressing room and defamed her after she told the story publicly in a memoir in 2019 while he was serving his first term as president.
Trump has maintained nothing sexual happened between him and Carroll, now 82, a former advice columnist.
Trump asserted she was “totally lying” and “not my type” in a 2019 interview.
Carroll sued “Trump after New York changed its laws to give Sexual Abuse survivors a fresh chance to sue over attacks that happened in the distant past,” per the Associated Press.