E. Jean Carroll v. Donald J. Trump refers to two related civil lawsuits in which author E. Jean Carroll sued former U.S. President Donald Trump, resulting in a combined $88.3 million in damages awarded by U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan. The cases stem from Carroll's 2019 accusation that Trump sexually assaulted her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room in the mid-1990s, which he denied, prompting her first defamation suit (Carroll I) in November 2019. In November 2022, she filed a second suit (Carroll II) under New York's Adult Survivors Act, adding a battery claim; the April 2023 trial found Trump liable for sexual abuse (not rape under the state's narrow legal definition) and defamation, awarding $5 million. A subsequent January 2024 trial on the original defamation claim added $83.3 million in damages, bringing the total to $88.3 million. Trump's appeals have largely failed: the Second Circuit rejected his challenges, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear Carroll II in June 2026 (after which Carroll collected $5.6 million with interest), and the Department of Justice's attempt to substitute itself as defendant under the Westfall Act was also rejected by April 2026, though Trump and the DOJ appealed to the Supreme Court in July. Notably, Carroll remains the only person whose rape allegation against Trump has been upheld as credible in court, though the jury ultimately found him liable for a lesser degree of sexual abuse.