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A civil jury in found writer and for defaming her, awarding Carroll $5 million in damages in May 2023; that civil finding is not a criminal conviction and the jury explicitly did not find him guilty o...
brought two related federal civil lawsuits against — initially for defamation tied to his denials of her sexual-assault allegation and later adding a battery claim under ’s Adult Survivors Act — and w...
E. Jean Carroll first publicly accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in a New York magazine excerpt in June 2019, saying the incident occurred in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid‑...
E. Jean Carroll says Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a Manhattan department‑store dressing room in the mid‑1990s and that he later defamed her when he denied the allegation; a jury found Trump ...
E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers had a black Donna Karan “jacket dress” that she says she was wearing during the alleged 1990s assault tested forensically after she first went public in 2019; lab testing in ...
A federal jury in May 2023 found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing E. Jean Carroll (not guilty of rape under New York’s statutory definition) and for defaming her, and it awarded Carroll $5 mil...
Multiple civil rulings have found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll and for defaming her; juries awarded $5 million (sexual abuse/defamation verdict) and later larger def...
E. Jean Carroll’s trial evidence combined her own detailed testimony, contemporaneous and near-contemporaneous corroboration from friends, pattern evidence from other women’s allegations and public st...
A federal jury in found liable for sexually abusing writer and for defaming her when he publicly denied her allegation, basing its conclusions on testimony, corroborating evidence and legal instructio...
A federal civil jury in Manhattan found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll and for defaming her, awarding Carroll $5 million in the 2023 trial; appeals courts have since u...
E. Jean Carroll won a 2023 civil jury verdict finding Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation and a separate $83.3 million defamation judgment that appellate courts have largely upheld; Tr...
E. Jean Carroll’s second federal lawsuit against Donald Trump proceeded to a January 2024 trial on damages and produced major post-trial litigation: juries issued large awards ($5 million for sexual a...
Courts treat prior “bad acts” — like the Access Hollywood tape — as potentially powerful but dangerous evidence: Federal Rule 404(b) generally bars propensity use but allows prior-act evidence for mot...
As of December 2025, no criminal jury has convicted Donald Trump of rape or sexual assault; a federal civil jury in May 2023 found him liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll (not for rape)...
Prosecutors never filed criminal charges tied to E. Jean Carroll’s 1990s allegation; her path was through civil litigation under New York law, where a jury found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse i...
E. Jean Carroll has consistently said the alleged assault occurred in a Manhattan department‑store dressing room in the mid‑1990s and that it began as flirting and ended in a violent struggle; she fir...
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...
E. Jean Carroll’s civil case against Donald Trump produced a mix of direct testimony and corroborative materials: Carroll’s own detailed account to the jury, testimony from two friends she said she to...
civil trial proved, by a preponderance of the evidence, that sexually abused Carroll in a mid‑1990s dressing‑room encounter and later defamed her when he publicly denied the allegation; the jury award...
The intervened in ’s by invoking federal statutes that can substitute the as defendant when federal employees are sued, arguing President Trump’s 2019 denials were made “within the scope” of his offic...