WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s lawyers are asking the Supreme Court to overturn an $83.3 million defamation judgment he was ordered to pay to writer E. Jean Carroll, Axios reported on Tuesday.
The U.S. Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Court records showed earlier this month that Carroll has collected nearly $5.63 million from Trump. She has won $88.3 million in civil verdicts against the president in the seven years since he first denied having raped her around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.
Jurors awarded Carroll $5 million based on a 2022 Trump denial, though they did not find that Trump raped her.
A different jury in 2024 ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million, based on his original 2019 denial during his first White House term.
Trump’s latest appeal reported by Axios comes a month after the justices declined to hear his bid to overturn the $5 million verdict that jurors ordered him to pay Carroll.
(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; Editing by Tom Hogue)