NEW YORK (TNND) — Advice columnist E. Jean Carroll asked a judge on Tuesday to order President Donald Trump to pay $5 million after the Supreme Court rejected the president's efforts to overturn a jury's finding that he sexually abused and defamed her.
Carroll's lawyers said in court filings in Manhattan that the original judgment has grown to nearly $5.8 million, including interest, and should now be disbursed. They argued that Trump is unjustly delaying payment and asked the court to require that all briefing on the issue be completed by July 10.
"Given that the Supreme Court yesterday denied Defendant's petition for certiorari, and given the cost to Plaintiff of further delay in this nearly four-year-old litigation, we submit that there is good cause to adopt a modestly compressed briefing schedule as to payment of the judgment," the lawyers wrote.
The filing also said Trump has resumed his defamatory attacks against Carroll while his attorneys consider asking the Supreme Court to reconsider its decision.
On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear Trump's appeal, in which he argued the trial judge improperly allowed certain evidence to be presented to the jury.
In a Truth Social post after the decision, Trump criticized the court for refusing to hear the appeal and again denied Carroll's allegations.
Surprisingly, the Supreme Court declined to 'review' a Fake Case brought against me by a woman I never met," Trump wrote, adding that he would "continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case" and arguing the lawsuit "is really against the United States of America.
Carroll, a longtime advice columnist and former television host, testified during a 2023 trial that Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman, the luxury department store across from Trump Tower in Manhattan, after what began as a friendly encounter in the spring of 1996.
The jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation after he denied Carroll's allegations in 2022, awarding her $5 million in damages.
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