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Trump is appealing last month's $5 million verdict by a
Manhattan federal jury, which said he defamed the former Elle
magazine columnist last October by calling her claim that he
raped her in the mid-1990s a hoax and a lie.
U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, who oversaw the trial, agreed
to the deposit proposed by Trump's lawyer Joseph Tacopina, whose
law firm has been holding the $5.55 million.
Courts often require 111% of a judgment to be deposited during
appeals.
Carroll would collect her $5 million if Trump's appeals,
including potentially to the Supreme Court, were unsuccessful.
The money set aside plus interest would be returned to Trump if
he prevailed.
Tacopina and other lawyers from his firm did not immediately
respond to requests for additional comment. Carroll's lawyers
agreed to the $5.55 million deposit.
Trump, the frontrunner for the 2024 Republican presidential
nomination, on June 8 asked for a new trial, saying the damages
were excessive in part because the jury found that Carroll was
sexually abused, but not raped as she had claimed.
Lawyers for Carroll on Thursday called Trump's request for a
do-over "magical thinking."
Carroll is also suing Trump for $10 million stemming from his
June 2019 denial of her rape claim.
She is also seeking punitive damages, after he repeated his
denials in a CNN town hall one day after the jury verdict.
The case is Carroll v Trump, U.S. District Court, Southern
District of New York, No. 22-10016.
(Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Daniel
Wallis)
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