A New York federal jury has found Donald Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation against the author E. Jean Carroll. The jury ordered the former president to pay Carroll $5 million (£4 million) in compensatory and punitive damages. Trump was not found liable for the more serious charge of rape leveled against him by Carroll.
‘We are very happy,’ Carroll’s lawyer Roberta Kaplan told the press as she left the courthouse with her client. Carroll did not address reporters.
In her suit, Carroll had alleged that Trump had raped her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in New York in the mid-1990s.
Judge Lewis A. Kaplan posed jurors a questionnaire in order to assist them in reaching a verdict. The questions read: ‘Did Ms. Carroll prove, by a preponderance of the evidence that, 1) Mr. Trump raped Ms. Carroll,’ with a ‘yes/no’ tick box option, ‘2) Mr. Trump sexually abused Ms.
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