At long last I am delighted to inform you that the former chairman of the US version of "The Apprentice" has finally paid up a portion of the money he owed Elizabeth Jean Carroll. Back in 2023, a district court in the USA had instructed him to pay over $5 million in damages for defamation and sexual abuse. With interest that figure rose to $5.6million.
In essence, the matter related to an afternoon in the mid-nineties when the orange reality TV star with the golden mane assaulted Ms Carroll in a changing room in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in New York City. This crime was compounded by his repeated lies and cynical attempts to smear his victim. He said, “She’s accusing me of rape, a woman that I have no idea who she is. It came out of the blue." He also referred to her as "a nut job" which is of course rather rich coming from him!
As months and years passed, the elderly rogue sought to use every legal appeal avenue in existence to overturn the court ruling but in the end all of his efforts were in vain. Even The Supreme Court that usually dances to his tune could find no substantive merit in his endless appealing.
As the money finally came through, E. Jean Carroll wrote, "The Eagle has landed" - a reference to the first moon landing. After all of the effort and expenditure, the mission was finally successful.
The former "Apprentice" host has a big appetite for pursuing people through the courts but when it happens to him he always kicks back. Perhaps he believes that he should be above the law
$5.6million is loose change to a guy who made many millions through shady cryptocurrency deals. However, there remains an outstanding judgement against him. Still in relation to E.Jean Carroll, he is similarly appealing against an $83 million lawsuit judgement that also involved defamation.
Through the legal system, Elizabeth Jean Carroll's intentions were never about making money. It was all about principles and justice. In fact, at one stage, she declared that she would give away any funds that were awarded to her.
In my estimation, she has been extremely brave to stand in the full glare of publicity while challenging a very powerful, extraordinarily vindictive man who has a penchant for using the law as an arsenal to get what he wants - come what may. Let us hope that in the course of time she also secures the $83 million already awarded to her before the appeals rigmarole began all over again.
You're on a roll here with good comments about Trumps negative behaviour.
ReplyDeleteNeil, you are right, that woman is brave and fearless to go against someone as vindictive and evil as tRump. That money she is owed is pennies compared to the billions he and his family have made since he has been president. I want to be alive to see this nightmare over.
ReplyDeleteYes, good for her, I say.
ReplyDeleteThere is ALLEGEDLY a group of MAGAts having a hunger strike and refusing to eat until E. Jean pays the money back to Cankles.
ReplyDeleteIt's a cult.
When they die, that will be a few less of his followers to vote.
DeleteI think if I were her, I might live in another country for my own safety. 'Accidents' happen.
ReplyDeleteI really think the world should ignore him, the world leaders giggle at him behind his back. He tell lies without a second thought, so that his reality becomes the real reality in his mind. The only question I have "is why do the American people leave him in power?"
ReplyDeleteIn olden times he would have been sequestered in a lunatic asylum.
How people can still support him I do not understand. The Peace Board for Gaza…how’s that going? I was listening to Jeremy Bowen on R4 earlier, not well is the answer. Then there is the reflecting pool, not important in the grand scheme of things but so illustrative of his approach. Then his speech last night, have only read the reporting of it, haven’t read the speech itself yet but it seems to be a list of unsubstantiated claims.
ReplyDeleteSome people bemoan the state of this country, blaming it on the Labour government (gosh they have done a lot in two years) completely ignoring how many years of Conservative government came before them. And still thinking Brexit was a good idea! And thinking 700,000 people have come across by boats.
Never ceases to amaze me how people can look at the same set of facts and come away with completely different views.
PS and now I read, in the Mainstream Media no less, that Wall Street traders, and others, will be able to pay to get the US president’s Truth Social announcements, which can move markets, faster than others and in ‘milliseconds’. If that isn’t corruption I don’t know what is.
DeleteIf he called her a nut job in front of witnesses, that is slander and she is entitled to damages.
ReplyDeleteUnfortunately not under US law
DeleteI hope she spends some of that money on personal security, she may need it.
ReplyDeleteShe is a brave, tough woman. It's not easy standing up to your attacker. I was sexually assaulted by a doctor at work and testified against him twice. It just pissed me off that I had to testify. He should have had his license yanked years ago because he did it over and over and over again. I felt like I had done something wrong and I told him, his wife, and everyone in that room that I had done nothing wrong and the doctor should be ashamed of himself.
ReplyDeleteAs for trump, if there is a hell, he's fucked, which is fitting I think.