She walked into a Manhattan courtroom in 2023 and opened her testimony with six words that would travel through every level of the American judicial system: 'I'm here because Donald Trump raped me.'
On 29 June 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States gave that claim its most authoritative legal backing to date, refusing to hear Trump's final appeal. The justices' decision left intact a 2023 jury verdict and a £3.9 million ($5 million) civil judgement, issued an unsigned order with no dissents and offered no explanation, in line with the court's standard practice for declined cases.
