Writer E. Jean Carroll calls for Trump to pay $5.8M after high court appeal fails

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Jean Carroll at a New York City department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. (AP Production: Marissa Duhaney) 2 of 3 | E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, Jan. 17, 2024, in New York. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez) 3 of 3 | The U.S. Supreme Court is seen, June 11, 2026, in Washington. (AP Photo/Mariam Zuhaib, File) By Michael R. Sisak and LARRY NEUMEISTER Updated 7:56 AM MESZ, July 1, 2026 Add AP News on Google Add AP News as your preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Share Share Facebook Copy Link copied Print Email X LinkedIn Bluesky Flipboard Pinterest Reddit NEW YORK (AP) — Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll asked a judge Tuesday to require President Donald Trump to pay her $5 million from a jury verdict that concluded Trump sexually abused her in the 1990s and defamed her after she publicly described the attack in 2019. Lawyers for Carroll filed papers in Manhattan federal court to say Trump is unjustly trying to further delay release of the money after the Supreme Court refused Monday to hear an appeal of the 2023 civil jury verdict. The amount has grown to nearly $5.8 million with interest and should be required by the court to be disbursed, the lawyers wrote, saying Trump has resumed his defamatory attacks against Carroll as his lawyers considered asking the high court to reconsider its decision. The jury reached its verdict in a trial that Trump did not attend after Carroll testified that she was sexually abused by Trump in spring 1996 in the dressing room of a midtown Manhattan luxury department store after a flirtatious and friendly chance encounter between them turned violent. Carroll, 82, first talked about the attack publicly in 2019 while Trump was president. He repeatedly insisted that he never knew Carroll. He also accused her of trying to sell books at his expense and having political motives. Trump’s actions signal a move toward institutionalizing people with disabilities, advocates warn 6 MIN READ A US missile killed Iranian schoolchildren four months ago. We still don’t know the full story 10 MIN READ 14 House GOP deadlocks over Trump’s demands, sending lawmakers home early 3 MIN READ 19 Trump promised on social media Monday to keep fighting what he called a “Weaponization and Lawfare Case” after the Supreme Court’s rejection became known. They said lawyers for Trump contacted Carroll’s attorneys minutes after Trump published a response to the high court’s action, asking that the payout be delayed while the Supreme Court is asked to reconsider its decision. But Carroll’s lawyers — Roberta Kaplan, D. Brandon Trice and Maximilian T. Crema — said in their court filing that there was no reason to delay the payment, especially since the Supreme Court expressed no division in its decision not to hear the case. “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,” they wrote. Lawyers for Trump did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Trump is also appealing $83 million in defamation compensation granted to Carroll from a separate Manhattan jury after a January 2024 trial at which Trump briefly testified. At that trial, Judge Lewis A. Kaplan, who is unrelated to Carroll’s attorney, required that jury to accept the findings of the previous jury and only determine how much money, if any, Trump owed Carroll for comments he made about her as president. Michael R. 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