Written opinion supports the compensation of five million dollars (around 4.8 million euros) that the Manhattan jury awarded to the writer and columnist
A US appeals court on Monday upheld a jury’s decision in a civil case in which President-elect Donald Trump was convicted of sexually abusing a writer in a store in the mid-1990s.
The appeals court issued a written opinion upholding the five million dollar damages (about 4.8 million euros) that the Manhattan jury awarded to E. Jean Carroll for defamation and sexual abuse.
The magazine writer and columnist testified in a 2023 trial that Trump turned a friendly encounter into a sexual attack after they entered a store dressing room in the spring of 1996.
Trump skipped the trial after repeatedly denying that the attack had happened, but testified at a subsequent trial earlier this year, which resulted in him being ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages.
This second trial stemmed from comments made by then-President Trump in 2019, after Carroll first made the allegations publicly in a memoir.
