---
title: "Carroll Presses Trump to Pay $5.8 Million After the Supreme Court Rejects His Appeal"
description: "E. Jean Carroll's lawyers moved to collect about $5.8 million from President Trump after the Supreme Court declined to hear his final appeal of a 2023 jury verdict — closing off the last challenge in the first of two civil cases she won against him."
category: "World"
category_url: https://herald.la/category/world
author: "Gabriela Soto"
published: 2026-07-01T23:00:00.000Z
updated: 2026-07-01T23:00:00.000Z
canonical: https://herald.la/article/carroll-presses-trump-to-pay-5-8-million-after-the-supreme-court-rejects-his-app
tags: ["E. Jean Carroll", "Donald Trump", "defamation", "Supreme Court", "civil litigation"]
---
# Carroll Presses Trump to Pay $5.8 Million After the Supreme Court Rejects His Appeal

E. Jean Carroll's lawyers moved to collect about $5.8 million from President Trump after the Supreme Court declined to hear his final appeal of a 2023 jury verdict — closing off the last challenge in the first of two civil cases she won against him.

A legal fight that began in 2019 has reached the stage where the writer who won it is finally trying to collect.

## The demand

With the Supreme Court declining to take up Trump's appeal, a $5 million jury verdict from 2023 became final, and Carroll's lawyers moved this week to enforce it, [Al Jazeera reported](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/1/e-jean-carroll-demands-donald-trump-pay-5-8m-in-damages-from-2019-case). With post-judgment interest that has accrued since the verdict, the amount owed now stands at roughly $5.8 million. According to that report, a federal judge approved expedited collection proceedings and set an early-July deadline for Trump's team to respond.

## Two cases, two verdicts

The $5.8 million traces to the first of two civil suits. In it, a Manhattan federal jury in May 2023 found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll, a former Elle advice columnist, in a department store in the 1990s and for defaming her by branding her a liar after she went public. It awarded $5 million.

A separate case, filed under New York's Adult Survivors Act, produced a much larger verdict: in January 2024 a jury ordered Trump to pay $83.3 million for additional defamatory statements. That judgment is at an earlier stage of appeal and is being pursued separately.

## Trump's position

Trump denies Carroll's underlying allegations and has cast both cases as politically motivated "lawfare." His legal team challenged the first verdict up the appellate ladder; a federal appeals court upheld it, and the Supreme Court's decision not to intervene — issued without comment, as is standard — left that ruling in place. His lawyers have not said publicly how they will respond to the collection order.

## What's next

Because interest keeps accruing, the $5.8 million figure will grow the longer payment is delayed — a point Carroll's attorneys have cited in urging the court to move quickly. The far larger $83.3 million judgment remains outstanding as its own appeal continues, meaning the financial stakes of the Carroll litigation, already substantial, are not yet fully settled.

## Sources

- [E. Jean Carroll demands Donald Trump pay $5.8m in damages from 2019 case](https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/7/1/e-jean-carroll-demands-donald-trump-pay-5-8m-in-damages-from-2019-case)