Ex-Columnist Receives $5.63 Million Owed By Trump In Sex Abuse case

 The writer E. Jean Carroll has collected nearly $5.63 million from Donald Trump after a jury in 2023 found the US president liable for sexually abusing and defaming her, court records show.Over Trump's objections, the money was released to Carroll's law firm on Monday, five days after US District Judge Lewis Kaplan authorized the disbursement from a court-supervised account.The payout represents the original $5 million civil verdict, plus interest.It is the first time Trump has been forced to pay Carroll. She has won $88.3 million of civil verdicts against the president in the seven years since he first denied having raped her around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.Trump has branded Carroll's claims a hoax, denied he knew her, said she made up the alleged rape to help sell her memoir, and derided her case as "weaponization and lawfare."