Trump Ordered To Pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3-M In Damages

A federal court jury awarded a total of $83.3 million in damages to E. Jean Carroll for defamatory comments Donald Trump made about her as president in 2019, remarks attacking her character that kicked off years of threats and harassment from the former president’s supporters, as reported by the Washington Post.

Trump was found liable for defamatory comments he made after the publication of a book excerpt in which Carroll described being raped by Trump in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s. I Photo: E. Jean Carroll X

Most of the award involved $65 million in punitive damages after jurors concluded that Trump acted spitefully and wantonly toward Carroll after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s.

Jurors also awarded a combined $18.3 million in compensatory damages. In May, a civil jury in New York found that Trump sexually abused and defamed Carroll, and awarded her a combined $5 million in damages, a finding Trump has appealed.

The former president said he will appeal the latest verdict as well.

Trump was found liable for defamatory comments he made after the publication of a book excerpt in which Carroll described being raped by Trump in a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s.

Trump called Carroll a liar and suggested a sexual encounter with her was impossible because she was “not my type.”

Carroll received death threats and other alarming messages from Trump’s supporters. She testified that the harassment continues and she fears for her safety because Trump still makes disparaging comments about her on TV and in social media posts.

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