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Supreme Court leaves $5.6 million Carroll award intact

August 17, 2026

Trump's challenge failed at the Supreme Court on Monday, leaving intact the $5.6 million award won by E. Jean Carroll in her civil suit for sexual abuse and defamation.

AP News reports that the Supreme Court on Monday refused Trump's attempt to escape a $5.6 million payment to E. Jean Carroll, ordered three years after a jury found he sexually abused and defamed the former magazine writer. CNN, CNBC and NBC News carry the same account: the same court action, the same amount, the same jury finding beneath it. The accounts corroborate one another on every element of that record, and none qualifies the figure or the court's action.

A second Carroll case sits apart from the first, and the two carry different awards. AP News reports that Trump and the Justice Department are asking the court to set aside a separate Carroll verdict of $83 million, and CNN carries that request as well. The $5.6 million award follows the jury finding of sexual abuse and defamation; the $83 million verdict comes from the other case, and the request against it remains with the court.

CNBC reports the response from Trump's side: a spokesman for his legal team, in a Monday morning statement, rejects both Carroll cases as fabrications and calls for the litigation against him to end. CNN and AP News carry that statement as well. Settled here is the court's refusal and the award it leaves in place. Unsettled is the fate of the $83 million verdict.

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The $83 million verdict in the second Carroll case remains in place while the request from Trump and the Justice Department to set it aside sits with the court. That request and Monday's refusal concern different awards from different cases.

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