U.S. President Donald Trump has paid E. Jean Carroll, a writer he was found to have sexually abused and defamed, over $5 million in damages.

A court filing shows that a total of $5,625,005.48, including interest, was paid to Ms Carroll’s attorney from court’s escrow account.

Roberta Kaplan, Ms Carroll’s attorney, confirmed that Mr Trump has paid his client the damages awarded by court in statement on Tuesday.

“Today, we are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment the jury awarded her as a result of that verdict,” Mr Kaplan said.

Ms Carroll, now 82, a former magazine columnist, had accused Mr Trump of attacking her at Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan in the 90s and later denied her allegation and defamed her in a post on Truth Social website in 2022.

In 2023, a New York jury ordered Mr Trump to pay Ms Carroll the sum of $5 million in damages after the court found out Mr Trump sexually abused her in the 1990s, and dismissed the incident a hoax on social media.

For three years, Mr Trump and his legal team appealed the judgement up to the Supreme Court. 

However, in late June, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected Mr Trump’s appeal to review the $5 million judgement that found him to have sexually abused Ms Caroll.

The various court that presided over the case before it got to the Supreme Court dismissed Ms Caroll’s allegation that she was abused by Mr Trump.