Trump Seeks Injunction to Recover $5.6 Million Carroll Payment

Legal representatives for Donald Trump filed for an emergency injunction with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit to force E. Jean Carroll to return a $5.6 million payment. The funds were released from a court-supervised escrow account on July 9 following a ruling by Judge Lewis Kaplan that ended Trump's appeals against a jury verdict finding him liable for sexual abuse and defamation.

Trump's attorneys are requesting the return of the funds while they attempt to persuade the Supreme Court of the United States to review the case, despite the court having previously declined to do so in June. Trump has consistently denied the allegations that he sexually abused Carroll in a Manhattan department store dressing room in the 1990s.

Lawyers for Carroll opposed the request in a July 21 filing, describing the move as procedurally improper and substantively meritless. They argue the request is part of a continuing pattern to forestall payment. Separately, a different jury awarded Carroll $83.3 million in a defamation case, though that amount remains unpaid.