PNN – The US Supreme Court has rejected Donald Trump’s appeal and upheld the $5 million award to E. Jane Carroll in a defamation and sexual harassment case.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network; the decision will uphold the conviction against Trump and he will be required to pay damages.
According to ABC News, a New York jury awarded Carroll $5 million in damages in 2023 after finding Trump liable for sexually assaulting E. Jane Carroll in the pro room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the mid-1990s and defaming her in 2022.
Trump denied the allegations in 2022, calling them “a hoax and a lie.”
Jane Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement in response to Monday’s Supreme Court decision: Today’s Supreme Court decision permanently upholds a unanimous jury verdict that President Donald J. Trump sexually assaulted and defamed E. Jane Carroll. All of his efforts to appeal the verdict have failed, and today’s ruling ends his attempt to evade accountability for his actions.
In his appeal, the US president criticized the judge’s decision to admit the testimony of two other women, Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff, who had said that Trump sexually assaulted them.