E. Jean Carroll

FILE - E. Jean Carroll leaves federal court after a jury awarded her $83.3 million in a case against former President Donald Trump, Jan. 26, 2024, in New York. An attorney for the longtime advice columnist suggested Monday, March 11, 2024, that a new defamation lawsuit was possible against the ex-president after he resumed verbal attacks against her at a weekend rally. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

New lawsuit possible, lawyer says, after Trump renews attack on writer who won $83.3 million award

A lawyer for a writer who won an $83.3 million defamation award against Donald Trump suggests a new defamation lawsuit is possible against the ex-president after he resumed verbal attacks against her at a weekend rally.
 
FILE - E. Jean Carroll leaves Federal court after a jury awarded her $83.3 million in a case against former President Donald Trump, Jan. 26, 2024, in New York. Former President Donald Trump has secured a bond sufficient to support an $83.3 million jury award granted to Carroll during a January defamation trial stemming from rape claims she made against Trump, his lawyer said Friday, March 8, 2024, as she notified the federal judge who oversaw the trial that an appeal was underway. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura, File)

Trump attorneys post $92 million bond to support jury award to E. Jean Carroll in defamation suit

 
FILE - E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, May 9, 2023, in New York. Donald Trump’s lawyers said Tuesday, March 5, 2024, that the ex-president deserves a new trial and a fresh chance to tell a jury why he berated writer Carroll for her sex abuse claims against him after she revealed them five years ago. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Judge denies Trump relief from $83.3 million defamation judgment

 
FILE - E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, May 9, 2023, in New York. Donald Trump’s lawyers said Tuesday, March 5, 2024, that the ex-president deserves a new trial and a fresh chance to tell a jury why he berated writer Carroll for her sex abuse claims against him after she revealed them five years ago. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Trump lawyers want him back on witness stand in E. Jean Carroll case

 
FILE - E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, May 9, 2023, in New York. Lawyers for Carroll have urged a judge, Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024, to reject former President Donald Trump's efforts to avoid posting security to secure an $83.3 million defamation award won by the writer. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Writer E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers urge judge to reject Trump’s request to postpone $83.3M jury award

 

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Judge reject’s Trump’s bid for a new trial in $83.3 million E. Jean Carroll defamation case

A federal judge in New York has rejected Donald Trump’s request for a new trial after a jury awarded $83.3 million in damages to a longtime magazine columnist who sued the former president for defamation.
 
FILE - E. Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan federal court, Oct. 23, 2023, in New York. Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers asked a New York judge Friday, Feb. 23, 2024, to suspend an $83.3 million defamation verdict won won by Carroll on the grounds that it likely will not stand. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)

Trump’s lawyers seek to suspend $83M defamation verdict, citing ‘strong probability’ it won’t stand

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E. Jean Carroll leaves Federal court, Friday, Jan 26, 2024, in New York. A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Judge criticizes Trump’s midtrial mistrial request in E. Jean Carroll defamation case

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FILE - New York Gov. Kathy Hochul arrives at the Red Room at the state Capitol, Jan. 16, 2024, in Albany, N.Y. Gov. Hochul signed into law a bill Tuesday, Jan. 30, 2024 that expands the legal definition of rape to include nonconsensual vaginal, anal, and oral sexual contact. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink)

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FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks after exiting the courtroom for a break at New York Supreme Court, Dec. 7, 2023, in New York. A jury is trying to determine if the $83 million defamation judgement will be enough to deter Trump from continuing his attacks on E. Jean Carroll. The jury hit Trump with the exorbitant defamation award Friday, Jan. 26, finding the former president maliciously damaged Carroll's reputation after she accused him of sexually assaulting her in a Manhattan department store. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

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E. Jean Carroll leaves Federal court, Friday, Jan 26, 2024, in New York. A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault. (AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

Donald Trump must pay an additional $83.3 million to E. Jean Carroll in defamation case, jury says

A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to longtime advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault.
 
In this courtroom sketch, Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024, Donald Trump and his attorney watch video of his deposition, presented prior to the defense resting, in Federal Court in New York. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Donald Trump testifies for less than 3 minutes in defamation trial and is rebuked by judge

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Former President Donald Trump leaves his apartment building in New York, Monday, Jan. 22, 2024. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig)

Possible Trump testimony in sex abuse defamation trial postponed due to juror illness

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FILE - Donald Trump's lawyer, Alina Habba, speaks to the media outside a New York courthouse, Nov. 6, 2023. Habba, who has renewed her request for a mistrial in a New York defamation case against the former president, said Friday, Jan. 19, 2024, that E. Jean Carroll, who accused the former president of sexually abusing her in the 1990s, deleted emails. (AP Photo/Ted Shaffrey, File)

Trump’s attorney renews call for mistrial in defamation case brought by writer in sex-abuse case

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E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024, in New York. Less than a year after convincing a jury that former President Donald Trump sexually abused her decades ago, writer E. Jean Carroll is set to take the stand again to describe how his verbal attacks affected her after she came forward. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez)

Columnist accusing Trump of sex assault faces cross-examination in a New York courtroom

The writer who accused former President Donald Trump of sexually attacking her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s has concluded her testimony in a New York courtroom.
 
In this courtroom sketch, E. Jean Carroll testifies on the witness stand in Federal Court, in New York, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2024. Carroll stated that Donald Trump's vitriol toward her has not ceased, pointing to multiple social media posts he made about her in recent days, and that his rhetoric continues to inspire venom against her from strangers because she claimed he sexually abused her decades ago. (Elizabeth Williams via AP)

Judge threatens to boot Donald Trump from courtroom over loud talking as E. Jean Carroll testifies

Donald Trump was threatened with expulsion from his Manhattan civil trial after he repeatedly ignored a warning to keep quiet while writer E. Jean Carroll testified that he shattered her reputation after she accused him of sexual abuse.
 
FILE - E. Jean Carroll, right, walks out of Manhattan federal court, May 9, 2023, in New York. The notorious 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic speaking disparagingly about women over a decade before he became president can be shown to jurors deciding what he owes Carroll, a columnist he defamed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, as he set up ground rules for a trial next week. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Columnist’s lawyer warns judge that Trump hopes to ‘sow chaos’ as jury considers defamation damages

A lawyer for a columnist who last year won a $5 million jury award against Donald Trump for sex abuse and defamation says the former president’s recent behavior shows he’ll try to “sow chaos” when a new jury considers if he owes even more in damages.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks after exiting the courtroom for a break at New York Supreme Court, Dec. 7, 2023, in New York. The notorious 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Trump was caught on a hot mic speaking disparagingly about women over a decade before he became president can be shown to jurors deciding what he owes E. Jean Carroll, a columnist he defamed, a federal judge ruled Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2024, as he set up ground rules for a trial next week. (AP Photo/Eduardo Munoz Alvarez, File)

Notorious ‘Access Hollywood’ tape to be shown at Trump’s defamation trial damages phase next week

A federal judge says the notorious 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Donald Trump was caught on a hot mic speaking disparagingly about women over a decade before he became president can be shown to jurors deciding what he owes a columnist he defamed.
 
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Judge blocks Trump lawyers from arguing about columnist’s rape claim at upcoming defamation trial

A judge says former President Donald Trump’s lawyers can’t present legal arguments to a jury assessing damages at a defamation trial this month on a jury’s conclusion that he didn’t rape a columnist in the mid-1990s.
 
FILE — E. Jean Carroll, right, walks out of Manhattan federal court, May 9, 2023, in New York. Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say he may testify at a mid-January trial set to decide how much he owes Carroll for defaming her after she said he sexually abused her three decades ago in a Manhattan department store. The lawyers filed papers in Manhattan federal court late Thursday, Dec. 29, 2023, to request that Trump's October 2022 deposition transcript in the case not be shown to the jury because Trump has been named as a witness likely to testify at the trial. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

Trump’s lawyers say he may testify at January trial over defamation damages in sex abuse case

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say he may testify at a mid-January trial set to decide how much he owes a columnist for defaming her after she said he sexually abused her three decades ago in a Manhattan department store.
 
E. Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan federal court, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Appeals court denies Trump’s ‘presidential immunity’ argument in defamation lawsuit

A federal appeals panel has denied former President Donald Trump’s bid to claim that presidential immunity protects him from being held liable for statements he made in 2019 when he denied that he sexually attacked a New York writer in the 1990s.
 
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Judge, citing Trump’s ‘repeated public statements,’ orders anonymous jury in defamation suit trial

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E. Jean Carroll leaves Manhattan federal court, Monday, Oct. 23, 2023, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II)

Appeals panel questions why ‘presidential immunity’ argument wasn’t pursued years ago in Trump case

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An appeals court will consider Trump’s presidential immunity claim in sex abuse case

A federal appeals court plans to quickly consider former President Donald Trump’s claim that presidential immunity protects him from a New York writer’s assertion that he defamed her by saying she fabricated her claim that he sexually attacked her in the 1990s.
 
FILE — E. Jean Carroll, right, walks out of Manhattan federal court, May 9, 2023, in New York. Four months after a jury found that Donald Trump sexually abused and defamed advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023, that still more of the ex-president's comments about her were libelous. The decision means that an upcoming second civil trial will concern only how much more he has to pay Carroll. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig, File)

The writer who won a sex abuse and defamation lawsuit against Trump scores another victory

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Judge won’t delay Trump’s defamation claims trial, calling the ex-president’s appeal frivolous

A New York federal judge has expressed growing impatience with what he calls ex-President Donald Trump’s “repeated efforts to delay” a defamation lawsuit, saying he won’t stop a January trial for the “frivolous appeal” of one of his rulings.
 
FILE —Former President Donald Trump walks to speak with reporters before boarding his plane at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Aug. 3, 2023, in Arlington, Va. A federal judge tossed out former President Donald Trump's countersuit against columnist E. Jean Carroll who won a sex abuse lawsuit against him, ruling Monday, Aug. 7, 2023, that Trump can't claim she defamed him by continuing to say she was not only sexually abused but raped. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Judge tosses Trump’s defamation suit against writer who won sexual abuse lawsuit against him

A federal judge has tossed out former President Donald Trump’s countersuit against the writer who won a sex abuse lawsuit against him.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks with supporters at the Westside Conservative Breakfast, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. A federal judge upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump on Wednesday, rejecting the former president’s claim that the award was excessive and that a jury in a civil case vindicated him by failing to conclude that he raped a columnist in a luxury department store dressing room in the 1990s. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Judge upholds the $5 million jury verdict against Trump in a writer’s sex abuse and defamation case

A federal judge has upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump, rejecting the ex-president’s claim the jury vindicated him by failing to conclude he raped a columnist in a New York department store in the 1990s.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks at the New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women Lilac Luncheon, Tuesday, June 27, 2023, in Concord, N.H. A federal judge in Florida has set a trial date for next May for former President Donald Trump in a case charging him with illegally retaining hundreds of classified documents. The May 20, 2024, trial date was set Friday by U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon. (AP Photo/Steven Senne, File)

Trump lashes out after Justice Department no longer says presidency shields him from defamation suit

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FILE - E. Jean Carroll walks out of federal court in Manhattan, May 9, 2023, in New York. A federal judge upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump on Wednesday, rejecting the former president’s claim that the award was excessive and that a jury in a civil case vindicated him by failing to conclude that he raped a columnist in a luxury department store dressing room in the 1990s. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File)

Trump can be held liable in writer’s defamation lawsuit after Justice Department reverses course

The Justice Department has reversed its position that Donald Trump can’t be held personally liable for remarks he made about a woman who accused him of rape because he was president when he made the comments.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks with supporters at the Westside Conservative Breakfast, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. A federal judge upheld a $5 million jury verdict against Donald Trump on Wednesday, rejecting the former president’s claim that the award was excessive and that a jury in a civil case vindicated him by failing to conclude that he raped a columnist in a luxury department store dressing room in the 1990s. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

A judge rejects Donald Trump’s request to toss out defamation claims by columnist E. Jean Carroll

A federal judge has rejected former President Donald Trump’s request that he dismiss a New York columnist’s defamation claims against him on grounds that he is entitled to absolute presidential immunity.
 
FILE - Former President Donald Trump speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2023, Saturday, March 4, 2023, at National Harbor in Oxon Hill, Md. Lawyers for an advice columnist who won a $5 million sex abuse and defamation jury verdict against Trump have urged a judge to reject his efforts to reduce the award to under $1 million. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Writer’s lawyers say Trump is wrong about $5 million sex abuse-defamation jury award

Lawyers for an advice columnist who won a $5 million sex abuse and defamation jury verdict against former President Donald Trump have urged a judge to reject Trump’s efforts to reduce the award to under $1 million.
 
E. Jean Carroll, center, walks out of Manhattan federal court, Tuesday, May 9, 2023, in New York. In a written submission Thursday, June 8, 2023, lawyers for Donald Trump say a $5 million jury award for his sexual abuse and defamation of columnist E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room, in 1996, should be slashed to less than $1 million. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

Judge lets columnist amend defamation claim with over $10 million demand for damages from Trump

A federal judge says a columnist who won a $5 million sexual abuse and defamation jury award against Donald Trump can update a similar lawsuit in a bid for over $10 million more in damages from the ex-president.
 
FILE — Former President Donald Trump speaks with supporters at the Westside Conservative Breakfast, June 1, 2023, in Des Moines, Iowa. In a written submission Thursday, June 8, 2023, lawyers for Trump say a $5 million jury award for his sexual abuse and defamation of columnist E. Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room, in 1996, should be slashed to less than $1 million. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File)

Donald Trump’s lawyers seek to cut sex abuse jury award from $5M to under $1M

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump say a $5 million jury award for his sexual abuse and defamation of a columnist in a department store dressing room in 1996 should be slashed to less than $1 million.
 
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