E. Jean Carroll

The former president owes a lot of money in Manhattan Civil Court, and he has to prove he can pay it in order to appeal the rulings against him Donald Trump owes a lot of money in New York — including the state itself — after being found liable in multiple civil trials in Manhattan Court. He really, really, really, doesn’t want to pay up. On Friday, the former president posted a $91.6 million bond in order to appeal the ruling against him in a civil defamation case brought against him by author E.…

E. Jean Carroll says looking at Donald Trump during his defamation trial last week was “like looking at nothing” or “an emperor without clothes.” The author and journalist who sued the former reality star and U.S. president after he claimed that she fabricated a sexual assault allegation against him to sell a book — an allegation a Manhattan federal jury found Trump liable for last year — spoke to CNN This Morning‘s Poppy Harlow and Phil Mattingly Monday. With the duo, Carroll discussed being…

E. Jean Carroll talked about her $83 million victory over Donald Trump and facing the former president in court in a new interview days after the jury awarded her in the defamation lawsuit. Speaking to the New York Times, Carroll said of the $83 million — $7.3 million in compensatory damages, $11 million in reputation repair damages, and $65 million in putative damages — Trump must pay her, “I’m not going to waste a cent of this. We’re going to do something good with it.” The author added, “I can’t say what…

After a miserable NFL parody cold open and a cheeky monologue featuring host Dakota Johnson (dressed to the nines in a black jumpsuit reminiscent of Phoebe Waller-Bridge in Fleabag), musical guest Justin Timberlake, and his pal Jimmy Fallon, Saturday Night Live Weekend Update co-anchors Colin Jost and Michael Che took over. And you just knew they were going to address columnist E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial win over Donald Trump. Yes, in June of 2019, Carroll penned a column in The Cut alleging that…

A New York jury ruled on Friday that Donald Trump must pay E. Jean Carroll $83.3 million in total damages for repeatedly defaming her after she accused him of sexual assault. Trump, the frontrunner to win the Republican nomination for president, must pay the author $7.3 million in compensatory damages, $11 million in reputation repair damages, and $65 million in putative damages. Trump was ordered to pay Carroll $5 million in a separate defamation ruling last May. Carroll has now twice successfully sued Trump…

Donald Trump stormed out of a Manhattan courtroom on Friday as lawyers for E. Jean Carroll delivered their closing arguments in the author’s second civil defamation case against the former president.  As Carroll’s attorney, Roberta Kaplan, addressed the jury, Trump stood up from his place at the defense table and left the room. According to Politico, the former president’s outburst came shortly after Kaplan stated Trump hadn’t even waited 24 hours before disrespecting the verdict in Carroll’s first case against…

E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against Donald Trump resumed on Thursday, and this time it was the president himself who was in the hot seat. The former president took the witness stand in Manhattan civil court for a brief testimony largely devoid of the theatrics seen in his previous court outbursts.  Trump’s questioning was short. His attorney, Alina Habba, asked him if he stood by his deposition for the case, in which he denied Caroll’s allegations against him multiple times. He responded “100 percent yes.”…

Day two of E. Jean Carroll’s second defamation trial against Donald Trump featured not only testimony from the famed author, but several extremely tense exchanges between the former president’s lawyer, Alina Habba, and Judge Robert Kaplan.  The trial, which will determine what additional damages Trump owes Carroll after already having been found liable for sexual abuse and defamation last year, began on Tuesday alongside a barrage of attacks against Carroll by the former president. Shortly after arriving in court…

Joseph Tacopina alienated his fellow Trump lawyers, who called him a "dumb" "loudmouth." Now, he will no longer represent Trump in the ex-president's cases High profile — and deeply polarizing — attorney Joseph Tacopina is no longer representing Donald Trump in the ex-president’s cases in New York City. Tacopina had previously represented Trump in a criminal hush money case as well as in E. Jean Carroll‘s sexual abuse and defamation civil suit last year. Reps for Tacopina didn’t immediately…

The defamation trial will begin in January after an appeals court rejected Trump's presidential immunity defense and a motion to stay that ruling E. Jean Carroll’s defamation trial against Donald Trump will go ahead in January after an appeals court rejected the former president’s motion to stay a previous ruling denying his attempt to use presidential immunity as a defense. Trump’s legal team filed the motion last week, seeking a 90-day stay to consider other appellate court options, or…