E. Jean Carroll’s Second Defamation Trial Could Hit Donald Trump’s Wallet Again

A jury last year ordered Donald Trump to pay $5 million to columnist E. Jean Carroll, finding the former president was liable for sexually abusing her in the 1990s—and for defaming her much later when he denied it. An additional trial began Tuesday to determine whether he will have to pay her even more.

Carroll, an author and former Elle magazine columnist, made her sexual-assault allegations against Trump public in 2019, when New York Magazine published an excerpt of her book, which alleged he assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room. In the aftermath, she filed a pair of related lawsuits against Trump.