Federal appeals court won't reconsider Trump's $5 million loss to E. Jean Carroll

Trump failed to persuade a federal appeals court to reconsider the $5 million verdict won by E. Jean Carroll after a jury found he sexually abused and defamed the former magazine columnist in the 1990s.

President Donald Trump failed to persuade a federal appeals court to reconsider the $5 million verdict won by E. Jean Carroll after a jury found that he sexually abused and defamed the former magazine columnist in the 1990s.

In an 8-2 vote, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan on Friday left intact its Dec. 30 decision by a three-judge panel upholding the jury award.

Carroll, now 81, accused Trump of attacking her around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan, and defaming her in an October 2022 Truth Social post by denying her claim as a hoax.

In his denial, which repeated a similar denial in June 2019, Trump said the former Elle columnist was “not my type” and made up the rape claim to promote her memoir.

Jurors decided in May 2023 that Trump had sexually assaulted Carroll and had defamed her by lying. They did not find that Trump raped Carroll, as she had claimed.