E. Jean Carroll seeks new damages from Donald Trump over post-verdict statements
- A jury had earlier found the ex-US president liable for sexually abusing Carroll in the 1990s and defaming her afterwards
- Her lawyers have filed an amended lawsuit seeking at least US$10 million, after Trump allegedly ‘doubled down’ on his defamatory comments during a CNN town hall
Lawyers for a columnist who won a US$5 million sexual abuse and defamation award against former US president Donald Trump filed an amended lawsuit against him on Monday seeking to hold him liable for remarks he made after the verdict.
The amended lawsuit, seeking at least US$10 million in compensatory damages, was filed in Manhattan federal court by lawyers for E. Jean Carroll, who says remarks by Trump after she made rape allegations against him so spoiled her reputation that she lost her long-time job as an Elle magazine advice columnist.
A nine-person jury two weeks ago decided that Trump had sexually abused Carroll at an upscale Manhattan department store in early spring 1996.
Carroll, who testified during the trial, first revealed in a 2019 book her claims that Trump raped her in a dressing room, but the jury rejected that claim.
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US jury finds Donald Trump liable in abuse and defamation case involving writer E. Jean Carroll
Joe Tacopina, a Trump lawyer, declined to comment on the new legal claim.
