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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...
state criminal case against was presided over at trial by Justice , whose courtroom decisions shaped pretrial immunity fights, gag and contempt orders, and the timing of sentencing; parallel federal a...
Donald Trump’s petition to the U.S. Supreme Court challenges a May 2023 jury verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, principally arguing that the trial ...
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...
Virginia Giuffre’s posthumous memoir and prior filings allege with Prince Andrew in the early 2000s, beginning when she was a teenager allegedly trafficked by Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell; th...
A federal civil jury found Donald J. Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million, but that same jury did not find him liable for rape under New York’s narrow statutory...
Federal juries and judges found in favor of E. Jean Carroll in separate lawsuits: a 2023 jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her, awarding $5 million, and a subseq...
A federal jury found Donald Trump liable in May 2023 for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll and awarded her $5 million; a separate jury later found Trump liable for defaming her and awarded $83.3 millio...
Virginia Giuffre’s 2022 civil action against Prince Andrew relied on survivor testimony, documentary requests tied to the Epstein-era settlement and allegations, and efforts to secure the duke’s sworn...
E. Jean Carroll is the prevailing plaintiff in two linked civil matters against former President Donald J. Trump: a 2023 jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing her and awarded $5 million; later ...
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...
E. Jean Carroll first publicly accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in mid‑2019 when an excerpt of her book—published as a New York Magazine piece—said Trump attacked her in a Bergdorf Good...
A federal jury in May 2023 found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll in a Manhattan department‑store dressing room and for defaming her, awarding $5 million; a separate 2024 jury ...
E. Jean Carroll’s case against Donald Trump hinged on her in-court testimony about a 1990s encounter in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room and supporting evidence presented at trial, including testimony...
A previously sealed 2009 settlement between Virginia Giuffre and Jeffrey Epstein, unsealed in January 2022, shows Epstein agreed to pay Giuffre $500,000 and provide unspecified “other valuable conside...
Witness and expert testimony supporting E. Jean Carroll’s physical‑evidence claims in the litigation and appeals primarily consisted of (a) contemporaneous accounts from two friends Carroll says she t...
Physical evidence played a limited and contested role in E. Jean Carroll’s civil suits against Donald Trump: courts and reporting show there was no DNA, police report, eyewitness testimony, video, or ...
Virginia Giuffre filed a US federal civil lawsuit against Prince Andrew in August 2021 alleging he sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions when she was 17 after being trafficked by Jeffrey Epstei...