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A civil jury in New York found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing columnist E. Jean Carroll and for defaming her, and ordered roughly $5 million in damages; jurors did not find him liable for ra...
The 2005 “Access Hollywood” tape is a hot-mic recording of Donald Trump and Billy Bush in which Trump boasts about kissing, groping and trying to have sex with women who were not his wife and uses the...
The Access Hollywood tape was admitted as evidence in E. Jean Carroll’s suit because Judge Lewis Kaplan concluded jurors could reasonably infer from the 2005 recording that Trump had “in fact” contact...
E. Jean Carroll has alleged that Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan in the mid‑1990s (specifically described in reporting as 1995–1996 or 1996)....
The 2005 "Access Hollywood" tape — in which Donald Trump said a celebrity “can do anything” to women and described grabbing women — became a focal point linking his lewd comments to later accusations ...
treated the jury’s findings in the first as dispositive for later proceedings, repeatedly saying the jury had “plainly established” key facts and even certifying one of ’s appeals as “frivolous,” whil...
Public figures and media reacted to ’s allegations with fierce polarization: many mainstream outlets and legal commentators treated the court findings and jury verdicts as a significant legal vindicat...
between and produced a May 2023 jury finding that Trump sexually abused and defamed Carroll and a January 2024 damages trial that resulted in a vastly larger award for defamation — outcomes later uphe...
E. Jean Carroll’s trial presentation combined her own detailed in‑court testimony about an alleged 1990s sexual assault with corroborating witnesses, documentary exhibits and pattern evidence includin...
A federal jury found Donald Trump civilly liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll based on a mix of Carroll’s own testimony, corroborating witness accounts she spoke to immediately after the alleg...
The settlement between Prince Andrew and Virginia Giuffre did not introduce new physical exhibits or documentary evidence as part of a public trial record because the case was resolved out of court an...
President Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn a $5 million civil verdict that a Manhattan jury found he sexually abused and defamed writer E. Jean Carroll; the petition argue...
As of the latest reporting in these sources, two main post-judgment avenues remain in play after December 2025: President Trump has petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review the $5 million civil jud...
A 2023 federal jury in New York found Donald Trump civilly liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll and for defaming her, and awarded Carroll $5 million — but that same jury did not find him liable...
Donald Trump’s legal strategy in the E. Jean Carroll litigation centered on contesting the trial court’s evidentiary rulings, attacking Ms. Carroll’s credibility and motives, and arguing that the intr...