Which plaintiffs have filed civil suits against Trump alleging sexual assault, harassment, or defamation, and what were their claims?

1. The Carroll cases: the focal civil trials and verdicts

E. Jean Carroll filed at least two related suits: an initial defamation suit after she publicly accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store in the mid‑1990s, and a later case that added a battery/sexual‑abuse claim under New York’s Adult Survivors Act; juries found Trump liable for sexual abuse and for defaming Carroll and awarded her multimillion‑dollar damages — a $5 million award for sexual abuse and an $83.3 million defamation judgment that were later upheld on appeal ^{[1] [5] [2]}. Trump has appealed and sought Supreme Court review of at least one of the Carroll verdicts, per filings reported in 2025 ^{[1] [6]}.

2. What Carroll alleged and what the juries decided

Carroll alleged Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid‑1990s and that later denials and statements by Trump damaged her reputation; juries concluded he sexually abused her (the trial did not use the term “rape” in the verdict form for all counts) and that his subsequent public statements about her were defamatory, leading to the monetary awards and findings the appeals courts later sustained ^{[4] [5] [2]}.

3. Broader field of accusations vs. civil litigation that reached trial

News outlets and aggregators report that more than a dozen women have publicly accused Trump of sexual misconduct, including allegations of groping, kissing and other assaults going back decades; however, multiple sources note that until Carroll’s trial, “none of those claims had gone to trial” — and the Carroll litigation remains the principal civil case to reach jury verdicts among the items supplied ^{[7] [3]}. Available sources do not provide trial-level detail on other named plaintiffs beyond summaries and compilations ^[7].

4. Other civil suits mentioned in summaries and compilations

Secondary reporting and encyclopedia-style summaries reference additional civil complaints over the years — for instance, a 2016 anonymous suit (using pseudonyms) alleging underage rape with Jeffrey Epstein that was dismissed and refiled in different forms — but those entries in the supplied results do not present trial findings against Trump as Carroll’s cases do ^[7]. Available sources do not list a complete, authoritative roster of every plaintiff who has ever sued Trump for sexual misconduct in a single, consolidated public filing.

5. Defamation claims tied to assault allegations: legal strategy and outcomes

A recurring pattern in the sources shows plaintiffs suing not only for alleged sexual misconduct but for defamation when Trump publicly denied or attacked accusers; the Carroll cases exemplify this, where damages addressed both the alleged sexual abuse and the subsequent defamatory statements, and courts treated the defamation claims seriously enough to sustain large punitive awards ^{[1] [2]}. Reporters and judges have noted the interplay between statements made while Trump was president and questions about official immunity, an issue litigated around the cases and addressed by appeals ^{[1] [8]}.

6. Disagreements in reporting and legal posture

Some pieces emphasize the historic nature of a jury finding a major political figure liable for sexual abuse ^[4], while others stress that numerous allegations never reached trial and that many claims remain contested or were dismissed in civil procedure ^{[3] [7]}. Trump and his lawyers have repeatedly denied the allegations and have pursued appeals, including petitions to the Supreme Court, illustrating the legal conflict and continuing uncertainty despite appellate rulings upholding Carroll’s verdicts ^{[1] [6]}.

7. Limitations and what’s not covered in these sources

The supplied sources concentrate heavily on E. Jean Carroll’s litigation and on overviews of multiple public accusations; they do not provide a full, itemized list of every plaintiff who has filed civil suits against Trump, nor do they provide trial outcomes for other named accusers — therefore a definitive roster and case‑by‑case claims cannot be assembled from these materials alone ^{[7] [3]}. For a complete catalogue, court dockets or a dedicated litigation tracker would be necessary; the current reporting does not supply that consolidated data ^{[7] [9]}.

Bottom line: E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuits are the most prominent civil actions in the supplied reporting — resulting in jury findings that Trump sexually abused and defamed her and in large damage awards that were upheld on appeal — while other women’s public accusations exist in press accounts but, in the provided sources, did not produce the same trial‑level civil findings ^{[1] [2] [3]}.