Trump wants delay, E. Jean Carroll wants verdict paid

The writer E. Jean Carroll is seeking the prompt release of the nearly $5.8 million she is owed from a civil jury verdict holding President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming her, a new court filing by her lawyers said.

But Trump wants to delay that so he can potentially ask the Supreme Court to reconsider its refusal Monday to hear his appeal, according to the filing in U.S. District Court in Manhattan. Such a request is rarely granted.

And Carroll flatly rejects the suggestion she allow any further delay in her getting paid.

“This is the end of the line,” Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan wrote in the filing Tuesday night to District Court Judge Lewis Kaplan, asking him to order the release of funds set aside by Trump to satisfy the May 2023 jury verdict.

“To date, Carroll has agreed to each of Defendant’s many requests to delay the payment he owes her,” wrote Kaplan, who is not related to the judge. “Given the extraordinary lengths he has taken to avoid such payments and that each of those efforts has been denied in full, that cooperation ends today.”

“It is time for him to pay Carroll.”

The filing cites prior statements by Judge Kaplan, who has said Trump had engaged in litigation tactics that suggested he had a “strong desire to delay” the case, and a related lawsuit against him by Carroll.

“A petition for rehearing is likely to fail,” Kaplan wrote. “Requiring Carroll to endure further delay while Defendant seeks rehearing would both be profoundly unfair and undermine the public interest.”

Asked for comment, a spokesman for Trump’s legal team said, “The American People stand with President Trump as they demand an immediate end to all of the Witch Hunts, including the Democrat-funded travesty of the Carroll Hoaxes.”

“President Trump will keep winning against Liberal Lawfare, as he continues to focus on his mission to Make America Great Again,” the spokesman, who asked not to be identified by name, said.

Judge Kaplan on Wednesday ordered Trump’s lawyers to respond by next Tuesday to Carroll’s motion for the award to be released to her.

The jury in the case found Trump had sexually abused Carroll in the mid-1990s in a dressing room in a Manhattan department store and that he had defamed her in denying her allegations when she went public with them two decades later.

The jury awarded Carroll $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages. Since Trump deposited funds with the court to secure the verdict pending his appeal, that money has earned nearly $800,000 in interest that Carroll is entitled to as well.

The $5 million verdict is noted as a liability in Trump’s 2025 financial disclosure report, which was made public on Tuesday by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics.

The same report notes a separate liability from another…