NEW YORK (1010 WINS) — Former President Donald Trump was found liable Tuesday for sexual abuse and defamation in a lawsuit filed by author E. Jean Carroll, with a Manhattan jury ordering him to pay her $5 million in damages.
The verdict was announced in a federal courtroom in New York City on the first day of jury deliberations. Jurors rejected Carroll’s claims that she was raped but found Trump liable for sexually assaulting her.
Carroll, 79, one of more than a dozen women who accused Trump of sexual assault or harassment, went public in 2019 with her allegation that the Republican raped her in a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman on Fifth Avenue in the mid-1990s.
Trump, 76, chose not to attend the civil trial, but he has said he never encountered Carroll at the store and didn’t know her. He has called her a “nut job” who invented “a fraudulent and false story” to sell a memoir.
EDITOR NOTE: A previous version of this story noted that former President Trump was "guilty," but has been updated to say "liable" as this was a civil trial.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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