Jury finds Trump sexually abused and defamed E. Jean Carroll
By Our Reporter
A jury in a civil trial held in lower Manhattan found that former President Donald Trump sexually abused the writer E. Jean Carroll in a dressing room in Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s, and defamed her after she went public about the incident in 2019, that he denied that the incident had occurred.
But the jury, which was made up of six men and three women, also found that Trump was not guilty of raping Carroll.
The mixed decision, which was unanimous, took the jury less than three hours to reach, and awarded Carroll a total of $5 million in damages.
