The Supreme Court declines to review an appeal by Donald Trump of a $5M jury verdict in favor of E. Jean Carroll, leaving the award intact.A federal jury found that Carroll was sexually abused in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s and awarded $5M after a trial in which Donald Trump did not testify.Carroll also won an $83.3M defamation verdict in a separate suit that Donald Trump is appealing, and the Second Circuit Court of Appeals previously upheld evidence that included testimony from two other women and the Access Hollywood tape.Trump’s lawyers argued that federal evidence rules bar propensity testimony, Judge
Lewis A. Kaplan allowed the material, and
Donald Trump has transferred $5.5M to a court account while other judgments remain under appeal.