E. Jean Carroll has allowed director Ivy Meeropol to chronicle her storied life and career in the new feature documentary film Ask E. Jean, The Hollywood Reporter revealed. The film is slated to screen at multiple festivals this fall, with the reported aim of securing a buyer and wide release …
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President-elect Donald Trump lost an appeal today of the $5 million verdict that E. Jean Carroll won. A jury found last year that he was liable for sexually abusing Carroll and defaming her when the allegations became public. Carroll, a former magazine columnist, alleged that Trump raped her in a …
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In July of 2023, New York Judge Lewis Kaplan issued a clarification in the civil cases brought by author E. Jean Carroll against President-elect Donald Trump. A New York jury had ruled in May of that year that Trump was liable for sexual abuse and defamation against Carroll. According to …
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ABC has settled a defamation lawsuit Donald Trump brought over anchor George Stephanopoulos’ inaccurate on-air description of Trump being civilly liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, which Stephanopoulos described as “rape,” The Associated Press reports. The network will pay $15 million, which will go toward Trump’s presidential …
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A quartet of actresses will bring E. Jean Carroll’s testimony from her defamation and sexual assault lawsuit against Donald Trump to the camera for the first time in the upcoming documentary, E. Jean Carroll V. Donald J. Trump. Kathryn Hahn, Ellen Burstyn, and Lexi Underwood will all portray Carroll in …
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F rom where E. Jean Carroll was standing in a U.S. District courtroom in Lower Manhattan, the tea leaves were not auspiciously arranged. The jury had reached a verdict far too quickly. They’d deliberated for less than three hours — barely enough time for Carroll and her legal team to …
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Donald Trump may have opened himself up to even more charges of defamation by author E. Jean Carroll — and probably pissed off his lawyers in the process. On Friday, the former president attended court in New York to appeal a 2023 verdict that found him liable for sexually abusing …
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A federal judge has rejected Donald Trump’s bid for a new trial in E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against him, keeping the former president on the hook for $83 million in damages. In January, after years of legal action, a New York jury found that Trump repeatedly defamed her after …
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According to those who’ve spoken to him lately, former President Donald Trump doesn’t seem to think he’s actually going to win his defamation lawsuit against ABC News and its star host George Stephanopoulos — but that’s not the point. Over the weekend, Stephanopoulos asserted that Trump had been “found liable …
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Donald Trump owes a lot of money in New York — including the state itself — after being found liable in multiple civil trials in Manhattan Court. He really, really, really, doesn’t want to pay up. On Friday, the former president posted a $91.6 million bond in order to appeal …
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