US court ends violence case involving Trump - BBC
Donald Trump, President of the US (photo: Getty Images)
The US Supreme Court has refused to hear President Donald Trump's appeal in the case of writer E Jean Carroll, who accused him of sexual assault and defamation, reports the BBC.
The justices rejected Trump's petition without explanation, leaving intact the verdict of a federal jury handed down in 2023. At that time, jurors concluded that Trump bore civil liability for sexual assault against Carroll, as well as for defamation after he publicly denied her allegations. He was ordered to pay the writer $5 million in compensation.
The lawsuit concerned Carroll's claims that in the mid-1990s, the US President sexually assaulted her in the dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York. Trump himself denied all allegations, calling the case politically motivated.
Carroll's attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said that the Supreme Court's decision definitively affirms the jury's verdict and ends Trump's attempts to avoid accountability. The White House chief himself criticized the court's ruling and promised to continue his legal battle.
At the same time, a separate appeal of another ruling in the Carroll case is ongoing. In 2024, another jury awarded the writer $83.3 million in defamation damages for statements Trump made in 2019. That verdict remains the subject of ongoing litigation.
Earlier, the US Court of Appeals allowed President Donald Trump to temporarily not pay the $83 million in compensation to writer E Jean Carroll.
