E Jean Carroll asks judge to order Donald Trump to pay $5m he owes her

The New York journalist E Jean Carroll asked a judge on Tuesday to mandate that Donald Trump pay her the $5m she is owed from a jury verdict that found the US president liable for sexually abusing her in the 1990s and defaming her after she publicly described in 2019 being attacked by him in a city department store. Lawyers for Carroll filed papers in a federal court in Manhattan one day after the US supreme court refused to hear Trump’s appeal of the civil case verdict in 2023. The author and advice columnist argues in the filing that Trump is unjustly trying to delay even further releasing the funds to her, after he has made repeated challenges to the civil jury’s decision. The amount Carroll is due has grown to nearly $5.8m with interest since the verdict and her lawyers wrote that the court should require the sum to be disbursed by the Republican president. They argued that Trump has continued assailing Carroll, 82, and made further defamatory remarks while asking the supreme court to reconsider its decision, announced on Monday. …