Federal appeals court refuses to rehear Trump appeal of $83M E Jean Carroll defamation judgment

The Supreme Court is set to review President Donald Trump’s petition for them to consider weighing in on the verdict in the E.Jean Carroll case.(Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images;Alex Kent/Getty Images)

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If Trump appeals the $83 million case, it would be the second of his contests with E.Jean Carroll to appear before the justices.He also appealed a separate $5 million ruling against him to the court in November 2025.

Carroll, a journalist and advice columnist, sued Trump twice after she released a book in 2019 in which she claimed that herapedher in 1996 in the dressing room of New York City’s Bergdorf Goodman department store across the street from Trump Tower.Trump has repeatedly denied Carroll’s claims and said the case was “a complete con job.” He also said that Carroll was “not my type.”

Trump may appeal a second E.Jean Carroll case to the Supreme Court.(Photo by Roberto Schmidt/Getty Images)

“I don’t know this woman, have no idea who she is, other than it seems she got a picture of me many years ago, with her husband, shaking my hand on a reception line at a celebritycharity event,” Trump wrote on Truth Social in October 2022.

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Trump’s repeated criticisms of Carroll and denial of her claims led to the journalist’s defamation allegations.

Trump has lost multiple court cases against Carroll in recent years.(AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson)

In May 2023, a jury found Trump was not liable for rape but was liable for sexual abuse and defamation.Carroll was awarded a total of $5 million in damages.

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TheSupreme Court is currently weighingwhether to take up that case.

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� Rachel Wolf contributed to this report.

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