A jury ordered Donald Trump to pay Carroll $83 million for defaming her.
Former President Donald Trump, at the end of a five-day trial, has been ordered to pay $83.3 million in damages to former Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll for defaming her in 2019 when he denied her allegations of sexual abuse.
Last year, in a separate trial, a jury determined that Trump was liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the dressing room of a Manhattan department store in the 1990s, and that he defamed her in a 2022 social media post by calling her allegations "a Hoax and a lie" and saying "This woman is not my type!"
Trump has denied all wrongdoing and has said he doesn't know who Carroll is.
Former President Trump's defamation damages trial has been postponed an additional day and is scheduled to resume on Thursday morning.
The postponement was announced in an update posted to the court's docket.
The trial was adjourned Monday morning due to COVID-19 concerns.
Donald Trump's defamation damages trial, which was adjourned Monday morning due to COVID-19 concerns, will resume Wednesday.
Judge Lewis Kaplan had originally said court would resume on Tuesday, but has now pushed that back a day.
"This Court functioned all the way through the worst of the COVID pandemic," Judge Kaplan said this morning before court was adjourned. "We conducted over a hundred jury trials right through the lockdowns and everything else. So we have gotten through all of that -- I'm sure we'll get through all of this too."
After Judge Kaplan adjourned the trial until Tuesday due to COVID-19 concerns, defense attorney Alina Habba asked him to postpone former President Trump's testimony until Wednesday because "tomorrow is the New Hampshire primary."
Trump, sitting at the defense table, appeared visibly irritated, actively conferring with Habba before she raised concerns about the timing.
The judge did not immediately rule on her request.
Carroll's attorneys opposed the delay.
The judge also denied the defense's latest motion for a mistrial, which they filed on Friday.
"The defense made a motion for a mistrial, again," the judge said. "That motion is denied."
Trump spent an additional 30 minutes inside the courthouse after the trial was adjourned, then drove off in his motorcade.
Court is adjourned Monday due to health concerns on the part of several participants.
The proceedings will resume Tuesday, pending everyone's good health, Judge Lewis Kaplan announced.
A juror reported feeling "hot and nauseous," so the judge sent him home for the day with instructions to get a COVID-19 test.
Additionally, defense attorney Alina Habba reported she is not feeling well. One or both of her parents had COVID-19 and she was exposed at a dinner with them three days ago, she said.
Habba said she had a fever 48 hours ago but a court-administered COVID-19 test this morning came back negative.
"We will not take testimony today," Kaplan said.
Former President Trump sat between Habba and her law partner Michael Madaio as the judge made the announcement.
"See you tomorrow, I hope," Judge Kaplan said.
