Former President Donald Trump (left) and E. Jean Carroll (right).
Former President Donald Trump (left) and E. Jean Carroll (right).
  • A Manhattan jury found Donald Trump liable for the sexual abuse of E. Jean Carroll.
  • Carroll's lawsuit stemmed from her allegation that Trump raped her in the mid-1990s. 
  • Trump denied Carroll's claim and said she made it up to sell her memoir. 

A jury has unanimously found former President Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing longtime Elle magazine columnist E. Jean Carroll in the 1990s, and that he defamed her by denying it. 

After two weeks of trial testimony and arguments, jurors arrived at their verdict after about 2 1/2 hours of deliberating. The jury has awarded Carroll $5 million total in damages. 

The jury didn't find that Trump raped Carroll, which was a verdict it could have returned.