A federal appeals court ruled against President-elect Donald Trump's appeal of a $5 million award to columnist E. Jean Carroll.

Carroll achieved a partial victory in 2023 when a federal jury awarded her $5 million in damages — a decision Trump has appealed. Learn more about the Trump-Carroll legal battle here.

A jury last year found that Carroll was sexually abused by Trump at a Manhattan department store in 1996 and that he defamed her in later statements.

In a separate case, Trump was also ordered by a jury to pay Carroll more than $80 million in damages for the defamatory statements, though the president-elect’s appeal of that decision is still pending.

President-Elect Donald Trump has lost his bid to overturn a $5 million jury verdict finding him responsible for sexually assaulting E. Jean Carroll.

An appeals court has rejected Donald Trump's attempt to overturn a jury's verdict last year that found he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s.

After losing a civil defamation case to E. Jean Carroll, the president-elect sought a new trial. A federal appeals court rejected Trump's arguments.

The court roundly rejected claims by Trump that the judge who presided over the trial erred in a series of decisions.

The ruling by federal judges said Donald Trump did not demonstrate that the district court “erred in any of the challenged rulings.”

An appeals court upheld a verdict against Trump for sexual abuse and defamation, as his spokesperson once again called the claims a “hoax”

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