NEW YORK, United States (AFP) — A United States (US) judge ordered President Donald Trump on Wednesday to pay writer E Jean Carroll $5 million after a civil jury found that he sexually assaulted and defamed her.

Last week, the US Supreme Court refused to hear Trump’s appeal against the original May 2023 judgment ordering him to pay $2 million in damages for sexual assault and $3 million for defamatory statements.

Carroll, a former journalist and columnist who is now 82, accused the president of assaulting her in a dressing room of a New York department store in 1996.