Carroll, a longtime magazine columnist, testified during the 2023 trial that a chance meeting with Trump in the spring of 1996 took a dark turn. According to Carroll, what began as a lighthearted exchange escalated into a violent assault after the two entered a department store dressing room.

A jury last year found that Carroll was sexually abused by Trump at a Manhattan department store in 1996 and that he defamed her in later statements.

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will not go to jail or pay a fine over his criminal conviction stemming from hush money paid to a porn star, but the sentence imposed by a judge on Friday places a judgment of guilt on his record.