Punitive damages
Jury orders Trump to pay $83 mln for sex assault defamation
A jury in New York ordered former U.S. president and 2024 candidate Donald Trump on Friday to pay $83.3 million to compensate the writer E. Jean Carroll, whom he was found to have sexually assaulted and defamed.
The civil order, which prompted an audible gasp in the federal court, far exceeds the more than $10 million in damages for defamation that Carroll had sought.
Johnny Depp selects charities for $1 million
Johnny Depp has chosen the charities he plans to donate the $1 million settlement he's owed from Amber Heard stemming from their highly publicized defamation trial, CNN has reported.
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Alex Jones ordered to pay $45.2 mln more over Sandy Hook lies
A Texas jury on Aug. 5 ordered conspiracy theorist Alex Jones to pay $45.2 million in punitive damages to the parents of a child who was killed in the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre, adding to the $4.1 million he must pay for the suffering he put them through by claiming for years that the nation's deadliest school shooting was a hoax.