The former U.S. President Donald Trump was found “responsible” for harassment, assault and libel in the case opposing him with the writer E. Jean Carroll.
This was decided by a nine-member jury on Tuesday after only a few hours of deliberation in a civil trial.
The former Elle magazine columnist had filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump for defamation.
Mr. Trump, who has always denied raping Ms. Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman fitting room in the 1990s, had called her accusations “a hoax and a lie” arguing that E. Jean Carroll “was not my type.”
Former U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to pay a total of $5 million to E. Jean Carroll, including $2 million in compensatory damages and $20,000 in punitive damages for assault and battery; and $1.7 million for repairing Ms. Carroll’s reputation and $280,000 in punitive damages for defamation.
The jury found that Mr. Trump did not rape Ms. Carroll, but sexually assaulted her.
It didn’t take long for Donald Trump to react, calling the verdict “shameful.
“I have absolutely no idea who this woman is,” he wrote on his Truth Social platform. “This verdict is a disgrace, a continuation of the greatest witch hunt of all time,” he added.