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Victoria Bekiempis

Trump asks judge not to order release of $5.8m payment to E Jean Carroll

a woman in a blue jacket, white shirt and sunglasses walks outside
E Jean Carroll leaves the second US circuit court of appeals, in Manhattan, New York, on 6 September 2024. Photograph: Adam Gray/Reuters

Donald Trump’s latest effort to delay the release of more than $5m in court-held funds that he owes E Jean Carroll failed on Wednesday.

The US president asked Manhattan federal court judge Lewis Kaplan late on Tuesday not to order the release of these court-held funds, which a jury awarded Carroll in her successful 2023 sexual abuse and defamation civil trial against him; this money also includes interest. Trump has denied all wrongdoing.

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