The payment – comprising the $5m jury award, plus interest – was made on Monday from an account where it had been held in escrow since the 2023 verdict, court records show. Mr Trump’s lawyers have signalled they will continue appealing.

The writer E Jean Carroll has received a multimillion dollar payout more than three years after she was awarded it by the jury in her sexual abuse and defamation lawsuit against Donald Trump.

The $5.6m (£4.2m) payment – comprising the $5m jury award, plus interest – was made on Monday from an account where it had been held in escrow since the 2023 verdict, court records show.

“We are pleased to report that she has received the damages payment,” Ms Carroll’s lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, said in a statement.

The president’s lawyers have signalled they will continue appealing.

Mr Trump deposited the money in an escrow account shortly after the jury’s decision.

The US Supreme Court recently let the civil verdict stand, with Judge Lewis A Kaplan then able to release the money.

The president’s lawyers subsequently sought an emergency order to block the payment, but were denied.

No conditions were placed on how Ms Carroll may use the money by the one-sentence denial.

In court papers, her lawyers said that she plans to put it in a retirement account.

The president’s attorneys have since filed another appeal seeking to halt or reverse the payment.

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