New Delhi, Aug. 18 -- The phrase Roberta Kaplan used was precise and deliberately final: the jury's verdict "is now final and cannot be challenged in any court."

from denial to permanence.

Carroll's original verdict, which awarded $5 million after less than three hours of jury deliberation, cannot now be undone.

The case traces to a single afternoon in the mid-1990s, when Carroll alleged that Trump followed her into a dressing room at the Bergdorf Goodman department store on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan and sexually assaulted her. Carroll, a longtime advice columnist and author who wrote a long-running feature for Elle magazine, did not go public for more than two decades. When she did, in 2019, Trump responded with the declarations that ...