U.S. President Donald Trump had asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reconsider a civil judgment requiring him to pay about $5 million to former columnist E. Jean Carroll in a case involving sexual abuse and defamation.
But the Supreme Court on Monday rejected his request for a second time.
The court had previously declined in June to hear Trump’s appeal of the verdict issued by a jury in 2023.
The jury found that Trump sexually abused Carroll in the 1990s inside a dressing room at Bergdorf Goodman in Manhattan.
It also found that he defamed her when he later described her allegations as a “hoax” and a “con job.”
However, the jury did not find that Trump raped Carroll, as she had alleged.
Carroll received about $5.63 million, including the original judgment and interest, after the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s appeal in June.
A separate legal battle between the two is still pending before the Supreme Court. The justices are considering Trump’s appeal of another $83.3 million verdict issued in 2024 over statements he made about Carroll in 2019.
Trump’s lawyers argue in the second case that presidential immunity protects him from Carroll’s claims.
However, lower courts have ruled that he forfeited his right to rely on that defense. The Carroll cases are civil lawsuits, not criminal charges.