A federal jury in New York found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing and forcibly touching the writer E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s and of defaming her last fall when he accused her of making up that account.
On Tuesday jury awarded Carroll $5 million in compensatory and punitive damages.
The verdict in the civil trial came after less than three hours of deliberations in U.S. District Court in Lower Manhattan. The jury did not find Trump liable for rape, as Carroll had alleged.
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The nine-member panel started discussing potential verdicts in the case at 11:50 a.m. ET after Judge Lewis Kaplan gave the panel final instructions and a 10-question verdict form.
Carroll, 79, alleged in a lawsuit that Trump sexually assaulted her in a dressing room of the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s.
Trump, 76, called the allegations “a complete con job,” and said she was not his “type.”.
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