The United States Supreme Court has denied, for the second time, US President Donald Trump’s appeal of a 2023 civil suit stemming from allegations that he sexually abused writer E Jean Carroll in 1996. The court’s August order list, released on Monday, rejected Trump’s request to reconsider its previous decision in June that denied his appeal of the 2023 verdict, which found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the former magazine columnist. The order denied 33 requests in total.
After the Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal in June, Carroll collected the $5m judgement plus interest. The damages payout was ultimately about $5.8m. Carroll has won two separate defamation suits against Trump.
Trump has been engaged in litigation with Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, since 2019, when she published an excerpt from her memoir alleging that Trump had raped her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan in 1996. Trump denied her rape claim, calling her a “nut job” and saying she was “not my type”. A jury awarded Carroll $83.3m for that lawsuit in 2024.
Trump is also appealing that judgement to the Supreme Court, arguing that presidential immunity protects statements he made while president. The case that led to the $5m verdict concerned Trump’s statements in 2022, when he called Carroll’s claim a “hoax” and a “con job” in a post on social media.
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