E. Jean Carroll seeks release of $5M in Trump case

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July 1 (UPI) -- Lawyers for E. Jean Carroll have asked a federal judge to release $5.8 million owed to her one day after the Supreme Court refused President Donald Trump's request to overturn a ruling that found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming the writer.

She filed a memorandum Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. The filing accused Trump of attempting to delay the release of a $5 million penalty against him. Lawyers said they're also seeking another $800,000 in interest, The Hill reported.

The memorandum was filed one day after the Supreme Court declined Trump's appeal to have the $5 million civil penalty tossed.

Carroll's lawyers requested a deadline of July 10 for all briefings in the matter to be completed, CNN reported.

"Given that the Supreme Court yesterday denied Defendant's petition for certiorari, and given the cost to Plaintiff of further delay in this nearly four-year-old litigation, we submit that there is good cause to adopt a modestly compressed briefing schedule as to payment of the judgment," Carroll's lawyers wrote in the Tuesday memorandum.

A jury awarded the damages in 2023 after finding him liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s and for defaming her by denying the allegations in 2019.

An appeals court also upheld the verdict in 2024. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Trump's lawyers failed to show any errors in the ruling that would lead to a new trial.

Trump has denied Carroll's allegations since she first made them and called the $5 million judgment excessive.

In response to the Supreme Court's decision Monday, Trump he had never met Carroll.

"I will continue the fight against this Weaponization and Lawfare Case against me, including the ridiculous claim of Defamation, with all of my power and strength," Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.

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