Key Background
In 2019, Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s in an excerpt of her book, which was published by New York Magazine. She alleged that the sexual assault took place in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in midtown Manhattan. Trump quickly denied the allegation in an interview, saying, “She’s not my type…it never happened.” Carroll first filed a civil lawsuit against Trump in 2019, accusing him of defamation. In 2022, she filed a second civil lawsuit under New York’s Adult Survivors Act, accusing Trump of sexual abuse. The second suit went to trial first, in which the jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing the writer and ordered him to pay her $5 million. In January 2024, a jury ruled in Carroll’s favor in the defamation case and ordered Trump to pay her $83.3 million in damages.
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