Less than three hours after beginning deliberation, the jury in the second defamation case brought by columnist E. Jean Carroll against former President Donald Trump issues a verdict ordering him to pay her $83.3 million in damages for his defamatory statements regarding his sexual assault of Carroll in 1996.
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In a unanimous verdict, the jury found that Trump owed Carroll $7.3 million for compensatory damages, $11 million in order to repair her reputation and $65 million in punitive damages.
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