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Becky Sullivan

E. Jean Carroll aims to expand defamation lawsuit against Trump, seeking $10 million

Writer E. Jean Carroll leaves a Manhattan courthouse earlier this month after a jury found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990s. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

On the heels of a jury verdict that awarded $5 million to advice columnist E. Jean Carroll over her claim that former President Donald Trump sexually assaulted her in a department store dressing room in the 1990s, Carroll has asked a court to expand the scope of a separate lawsuit against Trump, seeking at least an additional $10 million in damages.

In a set of court filings on Monday, lawyers representing Carroll proposed a set of amendments to her original lawsuit to add information about the verdict, along with a transcript of Trump's remarks at a CNN "town hall" broadcast on May 10, the day after the jury's decision in the other case.

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