According to Reuters, the Court of Appeal of the Second District in Manhattan unanimously rejected Donald Trump's appeal on Monday, who demanded the annulment of the judgment of the jury. According to the decision, the former US president is to pay Elizabeth Jean Carroll $ 83.3 million. as compensation for defamation.
Carroll accused Trump of sexual assault, which was to take place around 1996. An 81-year-old writer claims that the current US president attacked her in the fitting room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan. For the first time, she publicly told about it in the book “Why do we need men?”, Which appeared in 2019.
Since the disclosure of the case, Trump has consistently denied the accusations. For some time he maintained that he had never met Carroll, but “New York Magazine” published their joint photo taken in 1987. Then the president argued that Carroll “is not his type” and suggested that the whole story was invented for the needs of the promotion of her book.
Donald Trump lost his appeal. Must pay millions of Elizabeth Jean Carroll
In October 2022, Trump repeated his allegations against Carroll on the Truth Social platform. In response, the writer sued him for defamation. In 2023, the jury found him guilty of sexual harassment and defamation, imposing a fine of $ 5 million on him. Trump did not appear in the courtroom at the time, and called the decision of the judges “shameful”.
In the following months, Donald Trump appealed, claiming that the lower court had made procedural mistakes. In January 2024, the jury repeated the judgment, and the penalty increased to $ 83.3 million. According to Reuters, this amount consists of $ 18.3 million. compensation for moral and image losses and $ 65 million. compensation.
The case went to the US Supreme Court, which in July 2024 ruled that Trump was guilty of harassment and defamation. The politician decided on another appeal, arguing that the Supreme Court's decision, granting former presidents to a wide criminal immunity for actions taken during the office, should also protect him in this civil case. He explained that his statements about Carroll were aimed at defending himself, his family and the office of the president.
However, the second district court decided that there were no grounds to set aside the judgment. The judges emphasized that the compensation granted by the jury was justified due to the unique and gross circumstances of this case.
In June 2025, another book by Elizabeth Jean Carroll entitled “Not My Type: One Woman vs. a President” appeared on the American market.
