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Written by Jonathan Stempel
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a $5 million settlement that E. Jean Carroll won against Donald Trump when the jury found that the president-elect of In the United States he was responsible for the sexual harassment and later defamation of the magazine’s first author.
The decision was issued by a three-judge panel of the Second US Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan.
The May 2023 conviction stemmed from an incident in about 1996 in the fitting room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan, where Carroll said Trump raped her, and an October 2022 Truth Social post in which Trump reject Carroll’s accusation as false.
Although jurors in Manhattan federal court did not find that Trump had ever cheated, they awarded the former Elle magazine advice columnist $2.02 million for sexual harassment and $2.98 million for defamation.
A separate court ordered Trump in January to pay Carroll $83.3 million for defamation and defamation in June 2019, when he first denied her rape claim.
In both interviews, Trump said he didn’t know Carroll, that he wasn’t “my type,” and that he made up the rape allegation to promote his invitation. He is appealing the $83.3 million judgment.
Trump’s allies did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Carroll’s attorney did not immediately respond to a similar request.
Carroll’s lawsuits continue despite Trump winning a second four-year term in the White House on Nov. 5.
In 1997, in a case involving former President Bill Clinton, the United States Supreme Court unanimously ruled that sitting presidents do not have immunity from suit in federal court for first-degree and unconstitutional actions. in connection with their official duties as president.
Trump’s lawyers argued that the judgment of $ 5 million should be canceled because the judge of the case, the US District Judge. Lewis (JO:) Kaplan, should not allow jurors to hear the testimony of two other women who accused Trump of sexual misconduct.
Another, businesswoman Jessica Leeds, said Trump hit her on a plane in the late 1970s. Another, former People columnist Natasha Stoynoff, said Trump forcibly kissed her at his Mar-a-Lago home in 2005.
Trump’s lawyers also said the trial judge should not have allowed jurors to watch a 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Trump bragged about forcing himself on women.
But the appeals court said Trump failed to show that Kaplan was wrong, or that any errors warranted a new trial.
Judge Kaplan also presided over a case that resulted in an $83.3 million verdict.
