A federal judge in New York has decided not to hear the case in which former US President Donald Trump claims he was defamed by author and journalist E Jean Carroll.
Trump’s lawsuit was filed in June, not long after a jury in May found it proved he sexually assaulted E Jean Carroll in the mid-1990s.
The former president claimed that Carroll defamed him by continuing to tell the US media that he raped her, despite the jury in the civil case finding that Carroll could not prove this.
However, Judge Lewis Kaplan writes in Monday’s decision that Carroll’s statements that Trump raped her “are essentially true.”
In the civil case last spring, Trump was sentenced to pay Carroll five million dollars, equivalent to SEK 50 million, in damages. Trump has denied all the allegations and has also appealed the damages award.