E Jean Carroll receives $5.6m owed by Trump after court releases damages

Funds released from escrow account after Trump’s efforts to block sexual abuse and defamation award fail A Manhattan federal court has released more than $5.6m that Donald Trump owes E Jean Carroll in her successful 2023 sexual abuse and defamation trial against him, records reveal. The disbursement, made public in a 14 July entry on Carroll’s case docket, indicates that the funds were released by a court-held account on 9 July – one day after judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the release of this mo