A nine-person jury has directed former President Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to writer E. Jean Carroll for defamatory statements made in response to her rape allegations. Carroll accused Trump of raping her in a luxury department store dressing room in the mid-1990s. The incident gained attention when Carroll detailed it in her book.
In 2019, Trump refuted Carroll’s claims, stating he had never met her and suggesting her book belonged in the “fiction section.” U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan had previously determined that Trump’s comments constituted defamation. The recent jury decision breaks down the compensation as $18.3 million in punitive damages and $65 million in compensatory damages, after a three-hour deliberation.
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