See key moments in E. Jean Carroll’s legal battle with Donald Trump

E. Jean Carroll arrives at Manhattan federal court in New York as her defamation suit against Donald Trump continues on Jan. 26, 2024 in New York City. Lawyers for both parties are expected to make their final statements today before a jury decides on a financial penalty. Carroll successfully sued Trump for defaming her when he was president, he has denied sexually assaulting her in a New York department store dressing room in the mid 1990's.

E. Jean Carroll reacts as the verdict is read in the civil rape accusation case against former President Donald Trump, in New York, May 9, 2023 in this courtroom sketch. A jury found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing her in a Manhattan department store in the 1990's.

E. Jean Carroll testifies before Judge Lewis Kaplan in New York City on Jan. 17, 2024, in front of former President Donald Trump. In September 2025, a court of appeals declined to throw out a case that found he owes nearly $90 million in damages against Carroll, who said Trump sexually assaulted her at a New York City department store in 1996.

Donald Trump's lawyer Alina Habba cross examines E. Jean Carroll before Judge Lewis Kaplan during the second civil trial where Carroll accused Trump of raping her decades ago, at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City, Jan. 18, 2024 in this courtroom sketch.

E. Jean Carroll enters Manhattan Federal Court, in the second civil trial after she accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago, in New York City, Jan. 18, 2024.

E. Jean Carroll steps out of the car as she arrives to Manhattan Federal Court, in the second civil trial after she accused former President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago, in New York City, Jan. 22, 2024.

E. Jean Carroll (L) and her lawyer Roberta Kaplan (R) leave Manhattan Federal Court following the conclusion of the civil defamation trial against former President Donald Trump on Jan. 26, 2024 in New York City. A jury awarded Carroll a total of $83.3 million dollars in her week long civil defamation trial against former President Trump, including $18.3 million in compensatory damages and $65 million in punitive damages, finding that Trump acted maliciously for one of the two statements at issue.

E. Jean Carroll listens as the verdict is read during the second civil trial where Carroll accused former U.S. President Donald Trump of raping her decades ago, at Manhattan Federal Court in New York City, Jan. 26, 2024, in this courtroom sketch.

E. Jean Carroll attends the 2024 TIME100 Gala at Jazz at Lincoln Center on April 25, 2024 in New York City.