Writer E. Jean Carroll has asked a judge to order Donald Trump to pay the $5 million in damages awarded by a jury that found him liable for sexual abuse and defamation. The request comes a day after the US Supreme Court declined to review the case.

In May 2023, a New York jury awarded Carroll damages over her claim that Trump sexually assaulted her in the 1990s and then branded the incident a hoax. Trump has denied the allegations.

Carroll's lawyers said the writer had agreed to all of Trump's requests to delay payment, but that cooperation ends now. "It is time for him to pay Carroll," they wrote. The amount now totals nearly $5.8 million with interest.

Trump's attorneys have not commented. Trump called the case "fake" on Truth Social and vowed to fight the "weaponization and lawfare case" with all his power.

Carroll's lawyers included Trump's recent Truth Social post in their filings. Trump is also appealing a separate $84 million defamation verdict in another Carroll case.

Source: www.bbc.co.uk