Overview
- Federal records show $5,625,005.48 — the $5 million jury award plus accumulated interest — was moved from the court’s investment registry to E. Jean Carroll’s lawyers, a transfer confirmed in filings on Tuesday, July 14.
- The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 29 decision not to hear President Donald Trump’s appeal cleared the way for U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan to order release of the funds that had been held during appeals.
- Trump’s legal team has filed emergency requests and appeals seeking to suspend or claw back the payment, and those motions remain pending in the federal appeals courts.
- Carroll’s lawyers say she will place the money in an interest-bearing account to fund her retirement and that contingency-fee arrangements will not take fees from this indemnity.
- The money came from the Court Registry Investment System (CRIS), a court-controlled account used to hold contested funds during appeals, and a separate $83.3 million defamation judgment from a later trial is still under appeal and unpaid.