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Defamation case against Donald Trump by E. Jean Carroll, resulting in a civil judgment against Trump.
A federal jury found Donald J. Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, awarding her $5 million in the original 2023 verdict, and a separate jury later awarded Carroll ro...
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...
E. Jean Carroll obtained two separate civil verdicts tied to allegations she first publicized in 2019: a jury in May 2023 awarded her $5 million for sexual abuse and defamation, and a later federal ju...
E. Jean Carroll secured a May 2023 jury finding that Donald Trump was liable for sexual abuse and defamation and was awarded roughly $5 million, then won a separate January 2024 judgment for defamatio...
Federal and state courts have treated most sexual‑misconduct allegations against Donald Trump as civil matters, with one high‑profile jury in New York finding him liable for sexual abuse and defamatio...
Three types of allegations against Donald Trump have produced clear legal judgments or public settlements: large civil judgments finding fraud or defamation, smaller regulatory fines and private busin...
A concrete body of evidence was presented in the E. Jean Carroll civil trial that led a jury to find Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the mid‑1990s and for defaming her, including C...
The criminal investigation landscape into allegations of sexual misconduct by Donald Trump is fragmented: a federal jury found him civilly liable in one high‑profile case and that verdict was later up...
Donald Trump has been the subject of numerous public accusations of rape, sexual assault and harassment from multiple women, but the reporting provided shows no criminal prosecution or conviction for ...
A federal jury awarded E. Jean Carroll $5 million in 2023 for sexual abuse and initial defamation findings and a separate New York jury ordered an additional $83.3 million in January 2024 for later de...
Prosecutors have rarely brought criminal charges against Donald Trump for sexual misconduct; instead, most legal resolution has occurred in civil courts where accusers have pursued defamation, battery...
Donald Trump has been ordered by juries to pay E. Jean Carroll a combined total of $88.3 million in civil judgments — $5 million from a 2023 verdict and $83.3 million from a 2024 defamation damages tr...
Claims that Donald Trump is a "child molester" have circulated widely, but there are no credible news reports that prosecutors have charged him with child molestation; reported lawsuits alleging sexua...
E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuits accused Donald Trump of a forcible sexual assault in a Manhattan department-store dressing room in the 1990s and of subsequent defamation when he publicly denied the allegat...
Donald Trump did not admit wrongdoing in the settlements and legal resolutions tied to E. Jean Carroll’s accusations; courts and juries found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation in civil trials...
E. Jean Carroll alleges that in the mid-1990s she encountered Donald J. Trump in the lingerie department of Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue and that the encounter turned violent inside a dressing roo...
E. Jean Carroll’s remark that “rape is sexy” originates from a 2019 television interview with Anderson Cooper on CNN, where she said, in context, “I think most people think of rape as being sexy,” whi...
Several women who have been named in reporting around Donald Trump and the Access Hollywood-era tapes have publicly described alleged incidents; the most prominent is columnist E. Jean Carroll, whose ...