E Jean Carroll exits court docket after Trump ordered to pay $83.3m for defamation
An overjoyed E Jean Carroll cried and hugged her attorneys in a New York courtroom after a jury delivered an $83m verdict in opposition to Donald Trump on Friday.
Ms Carroll declined to talk as she left the federal courthouse in decrease Manhattan, however left little question about how she was feeling in a one-word put up on X.
“Elation!!!” the previous Elle recommendation columnist wrote.
After a trial notable for tense exchanges between Mr Trump’s protection lawyer Alina Habba and Judge Lewis Kaplan, the previous president was ordered to pay the author $11m in direction of a repute restore program, $7.3m in different compensatory damages, and punitive damages of $65m.
Mr. Trump was not in court docket for the decision, leaving Lower Manhattan in his motorcade shortly earlier than the decision was learn. Earlier within the day he stormed out of court docket throughout closing arguments however returned for the protection summation.
Meanwhile, Judge Kaplan suggested jurors by no means to reveal they served on this jury, and the previous president raged on-line.
The former president testified for simply three minutes on Thursday beneath strict pointers as to what he might say as a earlier jury already discovered him chargeable for sexually abusing Ms. Carroll.
Who is Jean Carroll? The author and TV host who took on Donald Trump
For many years, E Jean Carroll wrote columns advising girls by no means to construction their lives round males. Then a rape allegation in opposition to the world’s strongest man upended her.
Bevan Hurley28 January 2024 09:00