A federal appeals court has upheld a jury's decision ordering Donald Trump to pay $83.3 million to writer E. Jean Carroll for defaming her through repeated social media attacks after she accused him of sexual assault.

In a ruling issued Monday, the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Trump's attempt to overturn the verdict, stating that the jury's award was "fair and reasonable."

The multimillion-dollar judgment stemmed from Carroll's civil defamation case, in which jurors found Trump liable for repeatedly disparaging her after she alleged he assaulted her in a department store during the 1990s.

The decision comes in addition to a $5 million award Carroll won in 2023, when a separate jury found Trump liable for sexual assault and defamation.

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