Former US President, Donald Trump was on Tuesday found liable by a jury for sexually abusing and defaming an American former magazine columnist and ordered the controversial ex-president to pay her $5 million in damages.
After less than three hours of deliberation, the nine jurors unanimously upheld Jean E. Carroll’s other claims while rejecting her rape charge in the highly watched civil trial.
It is the first time that Trump has been held accountable for a slew of allegations of sexual assault that date back decades, and the former president instantly denounced the decision as a “disgrace.”
Carroll, 79, filed a lawsuit against Trump last year, saying that he sexually assaulted her in the dressing area of the opulent Bergdorf Goodman store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in 1996.
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