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Carroll seeks payment
E. Jean Carroll returned to federal court to seek enforcement of the $5 million damages awarded to her after the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Donald Trump’s appeal of the 2022 defamation case, leaving the verdict standing.
Carroll’s lawyers argued the award has grown to approximately $5.8 million with interest and asked a judge to compel Trump to pay, saying further delay has no procedural grounds.
In a Truth Social post after the Supreme Court’s decision, Trump criticized the court for refusing to intervene and said he would continue the fight against what he called a “Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me.”
ABC News reported that the Supreme Court’s decision means Trump will have to pay the $5 million judgment, and it described the jury findings that Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s and for defaming her in 2022.
Escrow, delay, and court
Roberta Kaplan, Carroll’s lawyer, said Trump’s team asked for Carroll’s consent to delay the $5 million payment after the Supreme Court declined to hear the appeal, and Kaplan wrote that “Carroll does not consent.”
Kaplan also told a judge that Trump’s lawyers sought to slow-roll enforcement by requesting reconsideration after the Supreme Court’s denial, and she urged the court to order disbursement rather than allow more delay.
In a court filing described by CNBC, Kaplan wrote, “To date, Carroll has agreed to each of Defendant's many requests to delay the payment he owes her,” and she added that “that cooperation ends today.”
CBS News reported that Kaplan asked a judge to set a faster-than-normal schedule to disburse $5 million and said Carroll is due an additional $779,783 in interest, while Trump’s legal team continued to pursue requests for suspension.
What’s at stake next
Carroll’s filings asked for a compressed briefing schedule and a deadline of July 10 for briefings, and UPI reported that the memorandum requested a deadline for the matter to be completed after the Supreme Court refused Trump’s request to overturn the ruling.
“Writer E Jean Carroll is demanding that United States President Donald Trump pay the $5m a civil court awarded her in damages, after the Supreme Court declined to hear his appeal”
UPI said Carroll’s lawyers sought another $800,000 in interest on top of the $5 million penalty, while CNBC described that the nearly $5.8 million owed includes interest that has earned nearly $800,000 since Trump deposited funds with the court.
The dispute is tied to the Supreme Court’s Monday action, and ABC News said the decision means the judgment against Trump stands, while it also noted Trump is appealing a separate defamation judgment ordering him to pay $83 million.
In the same period, the sources also described Trump’s broader legal posture, including his continued denials and his Truth Social claim that he would “continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me,” even as Kaplan argued the end of the line had arrived.
