Donald Trump has been ordered to pay $83.3m in a defamation case to a woman who accused him of sexual assault – with the former US president saying her allegation was a lie.
The court said Trump should pay $18.3m in compensation and $65m in punitive damages.
Jurors heard closing arguments in the case earlier, with E Jean Carroll’s lawyer telling them that Trump should pay
“dearly” for defaming her.
A jury found Trump liable last year of sexually abusing Ms Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York in the mid-1990s and defaming her after she wrote about the incident.
The trial that ended today focused only on what damages the former US president would have to pay for defaming her.
The amount is considerably more than the $10m Ms Carroll had been seeking.
The former Elle magazine advice columnist accused Trump of destroying her reputation as a trustworthy journalist by accusing her of lying about her rape allegation.
The 80-year-old said Trump’s comments caused her to be subjected to years of continuous attacks, including death threats.
A lawyer for the former president argued Ms Carroll did not deserve any money, claiming she enjoyed the attention and suffered neither professional nor emotional harm after Trump branded her a liar.
Trump, 77, accused Ms Carroll of making up the encounter to boost sales of her memoir, and has maintained he had never heard of her.
He also attacked Ms Carroll during the trial and on the campaign trial, proclaiming her case a “witch hunt” and a “con
job”.
Another jury last May ordered Trump to pay Carroll $5m over a similar October 2022 denial, finding that he had defamed and sexually abused her.
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