A federal appeals court on Monday upheld a jury’s finding in a civil case that Donald Trump sexually abused a columnist in a department store dressing room in the mid-1990s.
The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals issued a written opinion upholding the five million-dollar (£3.99 million) award that the Manhattan jury granted to E Jean Carroll for defamation and sexual abuse.
The magazine columnist had given evidence at a 2023 trial that Mr Trump turned a friendly encounter in spring 1996 into a violent attack after they playfully entered the store’s dressing room.
Mr Trump did not attend the trial after repeatedly denying the attack ever happened.
But he briefly testified at a follow-up trial earlier this year that resulted in an 83.3 million-dollar (£66.47 million) award. The second trial resulted from comments then-president Mr Trump made in 2019 after Ms Carroll first made the accusations publicly in a memoir.