The E. Jean Carroll payment is no longer a judgment sitting inside a court account. More than three years after a federal jury found Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming the former magazine columnist, Carroll has received $5,625,005.48 in damages and accumulated interest. According to CBS News, court records confirmed that the money was paid after years of appeals and repeated attempts to delay its release. The Guardian reported that the court held funds were released on July 9, 2026, one day after Judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the disbursement.
The payment includes the original $5 million awarded by a nine person jury in May 2023, along with interest earned while the money remained under court control. The jury reached its verdict after hearing Carroll testify about an encounter with Trump inside a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in Manhattan during the 1990s. The jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation under the civil standard of proof. The jury did not find him liable for rape under the specific definition contained in New York law at the time.
Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, confirmed that the money had reached her client.
“Three years ago, a unanimous nine-person jury found President Trump liable for sexually assaulting and defaming E. Jean Carroll,” Kaplan said. “Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her as a result of that verdict.”
The payment became possible after the United States Supreme Court declined to hear Trump’s appeal on June 29, 2026. According to the official Supreme Court docket, Trump filed a petition asking the justices to reconsider that decision on July 8. The docket did not show a ruling on the rehearing request as of July 14. His attorneys argued that the money should remain under court control while that petition was pending, but the lower courts did not stop the transfer.
That makes the E. Jean Carroll payment a significant enforcement moment, not simply another courtroom victory on paper. According to the Associated Press, Trump deposited money into a court account after the 2023 verdict so that the judgment would remain secured during his appeals. Judge Kaplan later ordered the funds released after the Supreme Court declined the case. The Second Circuit also rejected an emergency request seeking to stop the transfer.
Trump’s lawyers warned that releasing the money could cause an irreversible loss if the Supreme Court eventually reconsidered the case and ruled in his favor. Carroll’s attorneys responded that their client had already waited more than three years to receive the jury award. They told the court that Carroll would use the money for retirement and “place the award in an interest-bearing account until Defendant’s petition for rehearing is denied.”
The legal path to the payment was made possible in part by New York’s Adult Survivors Act. According to the New York State Senate, the law created a temporary one year window allowing adults to revive certain sexual abuse lawsuits that had previously been blocked by expired statutes of limitations. Carroll filed her battery and defamation lawsuit during that window in November 2022. The case went to trial the following spring.
Trump did not attend the 2023 trial, and his attorneys did not call any witnesses. He continued denying Carroll’s allegations after the verdict. During a CNN town hall the following day, Trump called Carroll a “whack job” and described her allegations as a “fake story.” He had also publicly claimed that she was not “his type” and accused her of inventing the allegations to promote her book. Those continued statements became another major part of the long running dispute.
The E. Jean Carroll payment does not resolve every case between the two. A separate jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in January 2024 for defamatory statements Trump made in 2019. That award included compensatory and punitive damages and is not included in the $5.62 million she has now received. According to the Second Circuit’s published decision, the full appeals court declined in April 2026 to reconsider a ruling that upheld the separate judgment. Trump’s attorneys have indicated that they plan to seek Supreme Court review of that case as well.
The two cases are connected, but they cover different statements and separate periods of conduct. The 2023 verdict addressed Carroll’s sexual abuse claim and Trump’s 2022 denial. The later damages trial centered on defamatory statements he made after Carroll first went public in 2019. The court instructed the second jury to accept the earlier findings and decide how much Trump owed for the additional defamation.
For Carroll, the E. Jean Carroll payment closes the collection fight surrounding the first verdict, even as Trump’s rehearing petition remains on the Supreme Court docket. The larger $83.3 million battle may continue, but the first jury award has now moved beyond appeals, filings, and court orders. The money is finally in Carroll’s possession.
