Madeline Halpert
Reporting from court

Before the verdict is read, E Jean Carroll sits quietly, flanked by her lawyers.

She is holding both her attorneys’ hands as the verdict is read, looking straight ahead and bowing her head briefly when it's announced the jury found former President Donald Trump defamed her.

She smiled softly when the jury decides unanimously to award her $5m in damages.

After the jurors get up to leave the room, Trump’s lawyer, Joe Tacopina comes up to Carroll and shakes her hand.

“Congratulations," he says. "And good luck, ok?”

The jury has awarded E Jean Carroll a total of $5m (£4m) in damages for battery and defamation by Donald Trump.

This is the first time a US president has been found liable of sexual assault.

We will bring a full breakdown of these figures to you shortly.

We're learning details of the verdict in E Jean Carroll's case against Trump.

The jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse of E Jean Carroll as well as defamation, but they did not find Trump liable for rape.

The jury finds Donald Trump defamed E Jean Carroll in an October 2022 post on Truth social in which he called her allegations a "con job".

He is told to pay $280,000 in punitive damages to Carroll for defamation.

Donald Trump sexually abused a magazine columnist in a New York department store in the 1990s, a jury in a civil case finds.

Judge Lewis Kaplan has issued a decorum warning those in court as we wait for the verdict.

He warned there should be: "No shouting. No jumping up and down. No race for the door."

The jury must fill out a series of forms and return them to the judge.

They must decide by a "proponderance of evidence" that Trump is liable for battery and defamation of Carroll. This is common phrasing for a civil trial. In a criminal trial the jury must find the suspect guilty "beyond a reasonable doubt".

Each question is marked with an option of yes or no. If Trump is found liable, the jury must also come up with a dollar amount for damages that he must pay Carroll.

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The jury, which has been deliberating for under three hours, will soon report their decisions on the following counts.

Count I - Battery - The jury must decide if Donald Trump is liable for battery when he allegedly “forcibly raped and groped” E Jean Carroll, as the lawsuit claims. Carroll’s team must have proved that Trump “intentionally, and without her consent, attacked Carroll to satisfy his own sexual desires”.

Count II - Defamation - The jury must decide if Trump’s comments on Truth Social in 2022 October “contained numerous falsehoods about Carroll” that “caused Carroll to suffer reputational, emotional, and professional harm”.

Prayer for Relief - In addition to the counts of battery and defamation, the jury will rule if Trump must retract his statements about Carroll and award her with “punitive and exemplary damages”.

A marketing professor told the jury that his post about her caused Carroll damages of an estimated $368,000 (£290,000) to $2.7m (£2.13m). The jury will also decide an additional sum for damages over the alleged battery.

E Jean Carroll, 79, says the attack occurred at a Bergdorf Goodman store in Manhattan in late 1995 or early 1996.

The pair had bumped into each other while shopping, she said.

Trump then allegedly asked her for advice when buying lingerie for another woman and jokingly asked her to model it for him.

But once in the changing rooms, Carroll claimed the real estate tycoon lunged at her, pinned her against a wall and assaulted her.

Carroll, whose "Ask E. Jean" advice column appeared in Elle magazine from 1993 to 2019, claims she managed to push him off after a "colossal struggle".

She did not report the alleged encounter to police, her complaint said, because she "was in shock and did not wish to think of herself as a rape victim".

Two of Carroll's friends, Carol Martin and Lisa Birnbach, have said the writer told them about the alleged incident within days.

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Former president Donald Trump took to the Truth social media platform this morning about 20 minutes before court proceedings started.

Trump said he would not speak until after the trial. He said no matter the outcome, he planned to appeal against what he described as his "unconstitutional silencing" and claimed he had not been allowed to defend himself.

However, Trump chose not to testify at the trial and was given multiple opportunities to do so.

The social media post again called the sexual assault allegations "false".

Columnist E Jean Carroll arrived at the Manhattan court earlier this morning, where supporters had already gathered with signs of encouragement.

Carroll claims Trump raped her in the early 1990s in a department store in New York City and is seeking damages for battery and defamation.

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Brandon Livesay
Live reporter

Hello and welcome back to our live coverage of E Jean Carroll's civil rape trial against former president Donald Trump.

We expect the jury to announce its verdict shortly after the morning was spent listening to instructions from the judge.

The jury - made up of six men and three women - heard closing arguments on Monday which detailed key moments from the case.

This is a civil trial, not criminal. If found liable, Trump does not face jail time but will owe Carroll a monetary sum determined by the jury.

A unanimous verdict must be reached by the jury.

Nada Tawfik, Pratiksha Ghildial and Madeline Halpert will bring us the latest from court in New York City.

We're pausing our live coverage of the E Jean Carroll civil rape and defamation trial against former president Donald Trump.

The jury returns to the courtroom tomorrow, where the judge will give them further instruction at 10:00 local time (15:00 BST). Then the jury will begin deliberations.

We are hearing that the jury is expected to reach a verdict the same day, which includes setting a monetary amount Carroll is awarded in damages, if they find Trump liable for battery or defamation. You can read more here.

Thank you for tuning in to our live coverage today. It was brought to you by Marianna Brady, Brandon Livesay, Madeline Halpert, Nada Tawfik, Pratiksha Ghilsdial and Brandon Drenon.

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from court

Leaving the court on Monday, E Jean Carroll is swarmed by reporters as well as some spectators carrying signs of support.

Nada Tawfik
Reporting from court

Just before trial wrapped, one of E Jean Carroll's lawyers offered a 40-minute-long rebuttal to the closing arguments made by Donald Trump's attorneys.

Mike Ferrara told jurors that Trump had disrespected them by not showing up in person to the trial.

He said Trump did not testify because he was liable of rape.

Trump “never looked you [the jury] in the eye” and denied that he raped Carroll, he said. “You should draw the conclusion that's because he did it.”

Ferrara also said Trump’s controversial Access Hollywood tape was not simply “locker room talk” but a “confession”.

He addressed allegations from Trump’s attorneys that Carroll was motivated by politics. He said Americans voted for Trump knowing how he treated women and another alleged assault wouldn’t have made any difference.

That's all from us here today in New York at court. We'll be back tomorrow as we await the jury to reach a verdict.

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from court

With that, closing statements have concluded and court has ended for the day.

Jurors are asked to come back tomorrow at 10:00 local time (14:00 GMT) to hear instructions from US District Judge Lewis Kaplan on deliberations.

No verdict is expected today.

Donald Trump has remained quiet today, though his campaign team have sent several fundraising emails unrelated to the ongoing trial.

The former president’s silence echoes his overall absence from the trial, having not appeared at the court in-person once.

He did, however, comment to a gaggle of reporters last week while on his golf course in Ireland.

“I have to leave Ireland and Scotland, where I have great properties, I have to leave early. I don't have to, but I choose to,” Trump said, reported by the Irish Star.

"I am going to go back and I’m going to confront this woman."

So far, he’s said nothing today about the trial on Truth Social. He also did not appear in court.

As the trial approaches its end, his whereabouts remain uncertain.

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Madeline Halpert
Reporting from court

Trump’s legal team just finished two hours of closing arguments and the court took a 20 minute break.

In the final parts of his remarks, Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina sought to piece together his argument that Carroll’s allegation was a politically motivated plot to take down Donald Trump.

Tacopina pointed to personal messages between Carroll and two friends she told about the alleged assault in which they talked about “scheming” as evidence Carroll made up the story.

Her friends only testified on her behalf because they “hated [Trump] with a passion”, Tacopina claimed.

He called on the jury to “do what’s right” and argued that the “facts and evidence made plain here are that E Jean Carroll’s story is not worthy of your belief”.

Nada Tawfik
Reporting from court

Donald Trump’s lawyer Joe Tacopina has been criticised by some for his cross examination of E Jean Carroll, specifically when he repeatedly asked her why she didn’t scream if she was attacked.

Tacopina defended himself in court during closing statements.

He said as a father of two girls, he would never tell a rape victim how they should act.

The questions were asked, he said, because the writer gave four different answers and “common sense can’t be left at the door".

Tacopina said while Carroll “feigned to be offended,” it was a question she knew was coming.

The lawyer showed a list of questions Carroll had prepared for her book proposal.

It included the question and her written answer - she had too much adrenaline to think to scream.

Madeline Halpert
Reporting from court

Tacopina has addressed claims that Trump did not mount his own defence in the case. The former president declined to appear in person and called no witnesses, appearing only in a deposition video played for the court.

Tacopina said there were “no witnesses for us to call” because the story was made up.

“Who are we supposed to call, someone who wasn’t in Bergdorf Goodman that day?" he asked the jury.

Tacopina also claimed Carroll’s inability to remember the specific date of the assault stripped Trump of the chance to provide an alibi.

It was “not a coincidence” none of the witnesses Carroll called could provide an exact date, he claimed.