Author and advice columnist who won $88.3M in damages against Trump for sexual abuse and defamation
Background
E. Jean Carroll is an American author and longtime advice columnist for Elle magazine. In 2019, she published an account alleging that Donald Trump had sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s. In May 2023, a federal jury found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation and awarded her $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. After Trump continued making public statements denying her allegations, Carroll filed a second lawsuit, and in January 2024 a jury awarded her $83.3 million in additional defamation damages, bringing the total to approximately $88.3 million. Trump denied both the encounter and that he knew Carroll.
