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President Trump has formally appealed the Manhattan conviction that found him guilty on 34 felony counts in May 2024 and is pursuing multiple parallel paths to erase or remove that verdict: a state-co...
Ghislaine Maxwell appealed her 2021 convictions; the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed the convictions and sentence on September 17, 2024, and Maxwell subsequently petitioned the U...
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted in December 2021 and sentenced to 20 years in prison (plus five years supervised release and a $750,000 fine) in June 2022; her appeals to the Second Circuit and then t...
President Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on November 10, 2025 to review a civil jury verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll and ordered $5 mi...
A federal jury in May 2023 found Donald Trump liable in civil court for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll (but not for rape) and for defaming her, and ordered $5 million in damages; appellate courts ha...
Ghislaine Maxwell was convicted by a jury on five federal counts related to recruiting, grooming and sex‑trafficking underage girls for Jeffrey Epstein, and was sentenced to 20 years in prison on June...
Two high‑profile civil cases tied to E. Jean Carroll are the clearest example among the sexual‑assault lawsuits involving Donald Trump: juries awarded Carroll a combined total in the millions — notabl...
A federal appeals court has found Donald Trump for sexual abuse and defamation in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit and upheld a combined judgment of approximately ; a separate civil jury previously found him...
E. Jean Carroll's civil litigation against Donald Trump produced jury findings that Trump sexually abused Carroll and defamed her, resulting in combined awards totaling roughly across two related civi...
E. Jean Carroll’s first federal trial in May 2023 resulted in a jury finding Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing her and for defaming her, producing a $5 million judgment that was later upheld on...
Donald Trump’s public comments about women have produced some legal consequences—most notably civil judgments tied to sexual misconduct claims that courts have upheld—and wide political fallout affect...
Donald Trump was convicted in the New York hush‑money criminal trial: a Manhattan jury found him guilty on 34 counts of falsifying business records on May 30, 2024, and a New York judge later upheld t...
Donald Trump has appealed his 34‑count New York conviction to New York’s Appellate Division, First Department — a state intermediate appellate court — and separately pressed federal routes seeking tra...
The immediate appeals track in E. Jean Carroll’s cases has largely moved against Donald Trump: the Second Circuit affirmed the $5 million sexual-abuse-and-defamation verdict and denied rehearing en ba...
A federal jury awarded E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in January 2024 — $65 million in punitive damages and $18.3 million in compensatory damages — for defamation tied to Donald Trump’s public denials ...
President Donald Trump has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a civil jury’s finding that he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll and to overturn a $5 million judgment against h...
A Manhattan federal jury in May 2023 found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll (but not for rape under New York’s narrow statutory definition) and for defaming her, awardin...
Virginia Giuffre has filed high-profile lawsuits against multiple individuals connected to Jeffrey Epstein’s network, most notably a 2015 defamation suit against Ghislaine Maxwell (settled 2017) and a...
The core outcome is that lower courts held President Trump’s official Twitter account to be a and found that blocking critics violated the First Amendment, but the U.S. Supreme Court later that judgme...
The $83.3 million defamation verdict against Donald Trump was affirmed by a federal appeals court, but collection has been managed through temporary security and appeals mechanisms rather than immedia...