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Trump quietly caves on $5.6M payout as E. Jean Carroll case ends: 'A first'

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President Donald Trump dropped his final challenge to the $5.6 million payout to writer E. Jean Carroll, ending the case she won against him in 2023. Trump agreed to dismiss his appeal "with prejudice," meaning he can never bring it again, according to a Sept. 25 order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit. The president also withdrew his bid to make Carroll return the money, according to the 70-word agreement his attorney, Josh Halpern, signed with her lawyers. The appeals court's order reached the Manhattan federal court's docket Tuesday. "In what I believe is a first for my eyes, Trump withdraws his appeal fighting the payout of $5M in damages to E. Jean Carroll," New York Daily News reporter Molly Crane-Newman wrote on X . A 2023 jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan in the mid-1990s and for defaming her, and awarded her $5 million, ABC News reported . After the Supreme Court declined on J