Carroll’s lawyers called for an early resolution to the payment issue after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Trump’s appeal.
Published July 1, 2026
Author E. Jean Carroll is asking President Donald Trump to pay her $500,000 in damages awarded to her in a civil lawsuit after the Supreme Court denied hearing his appeal.
On Wednesday, Judge Lewis Kaplan agreed that Carroll could seek prompt payment. He asked Trump’s legal team to respond by July 7 at the latest.
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A day earlier, Carroll’s lawyer urged the court to take action. In a legal filing, they accuse the Trump campaign of “delaying” payments by “asserting or inventing new (defenses) each time previous efforts to delay litigation have failed.”
President Trump has been at loggerheads with Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, since she published excerpts from her memoir in 2019.
In this segment, she claimed that President Trump raped her in the fitting room of Manhattan’s Bergdorf Goodman department store around 1996.
President Trump has denied Carroll’s claims and said she was lying about the accusations. He also dismissed her as unattractive.
“Number one, she’s not my type. Number two, that never happened. That never happened, okay?” President Trump told publication The Hill in 2019, about two years into his first term as president.
By November of that year, Carroll had filed a defamation lawsuit against Trump, accusing him of damaging her reputation by suggesting he had lied for personal gain.
She filed a second civil lawsuit in 2022, alleging both defamation and assault under the New York Adult Survivors Act. The lawsuit cited a Truth Social post in which President Trump called her a “complete fraud” and dismissed her accusations as “fraud” and “hoax.”
A jury in the first case sided with Carroll in May 2023, finding Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation by labeling her a liar. However, he did not hold Trump responsible for the rape.
In the second case, decided in January 2024, a jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in damages.
President Trump has appealed both rulings, arguing that the trials were improperly handled because jurors were allowed to hear evidence related to past sexual misconduct allegations.
But the Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear his petition to overturn the $5 million jury verdict, allowing the lower court’s decision to stand. The second case has not yet been heard in the High Court.
Following this week’s ruling, Trump returned to Truth Social and denounced Carroll’s lawsuit as a “sham lawsuit.”
“I will continue to fight with all my strength and strength against this weaponization and legal action against me, including the ridiculous claims of defamation,” he wrote.
“This lawsuit is really about the United States of America and everything it stands for, and it should never be allowed to happen to any other president or candidate!”
Since the first jury decision was made, interest has increased and the award has increased from $5 million to approximately $5.8 million.
Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, who is not affiliated with the judge, wrote in a court filing Tuesday that there should be no further delay in paying damages.
“This concludes the case,” the attorney wrote.
“To date, Carol has agreed to each of Defendant’s numerous requests to delay payments owed to her. Given the lengths he has gone to to avoid such payments, and all of those efforts completely denied, that cooperation ends today.”
“It’s time for him to pay Carol.”
