The Supreme Court on Monday rejected President Donald Trump’s request to overturn a jury’s $5 million verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll.
The high court’s decision to deny review leaves both the $5 million civil penalty and a separate $83.3 million defamation award in place. Trump had asked the justices to toss the $5 million verdict, which a Manhattan jury awarded in 2023 after finding that Trump sexually abused Carroll in a department store dressing room in the 1990s and defamed her in 2019 when he denied the allegations.
The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the verdict in 2024, ruling that Trump’s legal team failed to demonstrate errors that would lead to a new trial. Trump has denied Carroll’s allegations since she first made them and has called the $5 million judgment excessive, according to court records.
The denial marks the likely end of Trump’s efforts to challenge the jury’s finding on sexual abuse, though his lawyers have said they plan to ask the Supreme Court to also hear the separate case involving the $83.3 million defamation award, which remains pending before the justices.