Attorneys for writer E. Jean Carroll have asked a federal judge to order President Trump to pay her $5 million from a jury verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her.
In documents filed Tuesday in Manhattan federal court, her lawyers said Mr. Trump is considering asking the Supreme Court to reconsider after it declined to hear his appeal of the verdict this week.
The president said on social media, “I will continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength.”
A New York jury in 2023 found that Mr. Trump was liable for sexually abusing Ms. Carroll in 1996 in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store and defaming her in 2022 when he denied her claim.
When Mr. Trump was in his first presidential term in 2019, Ms. Carroll publicly described the ordeal for the first time, but he insisted he never knew her and accused her of political motives. His denials, including saying “she’s not my type,” were key to her defamation claim.
The jury concluded that she’s entitled to $5 million in damages.
That figure has grown due to interest to almost $5.8 million, Ms. Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, wrote in a separate filing in which she asked a judge to set a faster timeline to dole out the damages.
Ms. Kaplan said that after “four years of litigation across every level of the federal court system, it is time for this case to end.”
“And under the Court’s Stipulation and Order, Carroll is now entitled to obtain payment of the money due under the judgment,” she and attorneys D. Brandon Trice and Maximilian T. Crema wrote in a court filing.
They said lawyers for the president contacted them after Mr. Trump requested that the payment be delayed while the Supreme Court is asked to reconsider its decision.
Ms. Carroll’s attorneys said it should not be postponed, especially because the court declined to hear Mr. Trump’s appeal with no dissents.
“To date, Carroll has agreed to each of Defendant’s many requests to delay the payment he owes her. Given the extraordinary lengths he has taken to avoid such payments and that each of those efforts has been denied in full, that cooperation ends today. It is time for him to pay Carroll,” Ms. Kaplan and her fellow attorneys wrote.
Ms. Kaplan said she intends to motion for the release of the funds, requesting that the court direct Mr. Trump to respond by July 7, rather than the usual 14 days, citing a 2023 filing agreement that Ms. Carroll could collect the payment if the Supreme Court denied to hear the case.
“Defendant Trump obtained a stay of execution pending appeal only by explicitly agreeing that the funds placed in the Court’s account would be disbursed upon the conditions set out in the Stipulation and Order. Those conditions were satisfied when the Supreme Court denied his petition for certiorari,” they wrote.
Mr. Trump is also appealing a separate Manhattan jury’s 2024 decision to award Ms. Carroll $83 million in defamation compensation. His lawyers have indicated that they may bring that case to the Supreme Court.
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