WASHINGTON, July 28 - President Donald Trump’s legal team has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a $83.3 million defamation judgment that a jury ordered him to pay to writer E. Jean Carroll, according to reporting this week. The petition seeks review of the 2024 verdict tied to statements Trump made during his first White House term.
Court records noted earlier this month that Carroll has collected nearly $5.63 million from Trump to date. Across multiple civil proceedings in the seven years since the matter first surfaced publicly, Carroll has been awarded a total of $88.3 million in verdicts against the president.
The legal disputes trace to Carroll’s allegation that Trump raped her around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan, an allegation he has denied. While jurors did not find that Trump raped Carroll, they did award damages in related defamation claims tied to his public denials. In a 2022 proceeding, jurors granted Carroll $5 million based on a denial issued that year.
A separate jury in 2024 imposed the $83.3 million award; that verdict centered on statements Trump made in 2019, during his first term in the White House. The Supreme Court appeal reported this week follows a recent setback for Trump’s legal team: about a month ago, the justices declined to consider his challenge to the $5 million verdict that jurors had ordered him to pay Carroll.
The U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately provide a response to a request for comment on the latest petition to the high court.
Context and procedural posture
The filings now before the Supreme Court seek to reverse the larger 2024 jury award while the president’s prior effort to overturn a separate $5 million verdict was denied consideration by the justices a month earlier. Court records showing partial collections by Carroll reflect ongoing enforcement activity even as appeals proceed.
Implications for ongoing litigation
As the matter moves through appeals, the sequence of verdicts and partial collections underscores a layered legal posture: multiple juries have resolved distinct claims across separate proceedings, and collection activity has begun while higher-court review is pursued.
This article reports the status of filings, jury awards and collections as reflected in court records and recent reporting; it does not forecast outcomes of ongoing appeals.