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E Jean Carroll receives $5.6m owed by Trump after court releases damages

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E Jean Carroll exits the New York federal court in 2024. Photograph: Eduardo Muñoz/AP

A Manhattan federal court has released more than $5.6m that Donald Trump owes E Jean Carroll in her successful 2023 sexual abuse and defamation trial against him, records reveal.

The disbursement, made public in a 14 July entry on Carroll’s case docket, indicates that the funds were released by a court-held account on 9 July – one day after judge Lewis Kaplan ordered the release of this money.

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