A US jury sentenced the former president to a fine.
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new York Former US President Donald Trump has to pay millions in compensation for sexual assault. That was decided by a jury in New York on Tuesday. The 76-year-old was spared a rape conviction.
A jury in Manhattan federal court on Tuesday found proven that Trump molested former Elle fashion columnist E. Jean Carroll. The jury saw the allegation of rape as unproven. She awarded Carroll $5 million in damages for assault and defamation.
E. Jean Carroll (centre) was awarded millions in compensation on Tuesday.
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Carroll, now 79, publicly accused then-President Trump in 2019 of raping her in a dressing room in late 1995 or early 1996 at the New York luxury department store Bergdorf Goodman. In a post on his Truth Social platform, Trump described the rape allegation as a hoax and a lie.
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