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Victoria Bekiempis

US appeals court rejects Trump’s latest bid to delay paying E Jean Carroll $5.8m

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Donald Trump attends a press conference at the Nato summit in Ankara, Turkey, on 8 July. Photograph: Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto/Shutterstock

A Manhattan federal appeals court late on Wednesday rejected Donald Trump’s latest bid to delay the payment of more than $5m to E Jean Carroll following her successful 2023 sexual abuse and defamation trial against him.

The US court of appeals for the second circuit made its decision hours after Trump filed paperwork fighting Manhattan federal court judge Lewis Kaplan’s order releasing this money – which has been held in a court-controlled account since June 2023. Trump denies all wrongdoing.

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