Former US President Donald Trump has been ordered by a Manhattan federal jury to pay $83.3 million to author E. Jean Carroll in a defamation case. In 2019, former US President Donald Trump had made derogatory statements against writer E. Jean Carroll, deciding on which a Manhattan federal jury has ordered Trump to pay $ 83.3 million.
On Friday, a jury of seven men and two women ordered former US President Donald Trump to pay Carroll $11 million to restore his reputation, $65 million in punitive damages and other damages, Xinhua news agency reported. Pay $7.3 million in damages.
Donald Trump left the court minutes before the verdict and was not in the room when the jury returned to the court.
Trump described the Manhattan federal jury’s decision as “ridiculous” on a Truth Social post and said he would appeal the decision.
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Carroll won damages from Trump in Friday’s lawsuit, marking the second time this has happened. Earlier in May, Carroll was awarded $5 million in damages by a separate Manhattan federal jury. They had found that writer E. Jean Carroll was sexually abused by former US President Donald Trump. After that again in 2022 he was humiliated for public statements. When all these allegations were made against him, he denied those allegations.
Former magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll has accused former US President Donald Trump of raping and later humiliating her at a department store in the mid-1990s.
