US supreme court rejects Trump's bid to appeal $5m E Jean Carroll verdict

The US supreme court declined on Monday to hear Donald Trump’s bid to overturn a $5m verdict in favor of E Jean Carroll in a case in ⁠which a jury found ⁠him liable for sexually ​abusing the former magazine columnist and then defaming her.

The justices turned away the president’s appeal after a lower court upheld the 2023 jury verdict and rejected Trump’s arguments ⁠that the trial was unfair because the judge impermissibly let jurors hear evidence of his alleged past sexual misconduct.

Trump has been battling Carroll, a former advice columnist for Elle magazine, ever since she ⁠published an excerpt from her memoir in 2019 in which she alleged that Trump had raped her in around 1996 in ​a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan. ‌Trump denied Carroll’s claims and ‌asserted that she lied about the accusations both in 2019

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/29/supreme-court-trump-e-jean-carroll