Jury finds Donald Trump liable in E. Jean Carroll defamation case

(CNN) -- A Manhattan federal jury found that Donald Trump defamed E. Jean Carroll. She accused him of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s.

Carroll alleged Trump raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in the mid-1990s and then defamed her when he denied her claim, said she wasn't his type and suggested she made up the story to boost sales of her book. Trump has denied all wrongdoing.

Carroll filed the lawsuit last November under the "New York State Adult Survivors Act," a state bill which opened a look-back window for sexual assault allegations like Carroll's with long-expired statutes of limitation.

Trump did not attend the trial. Like any defendant in a civil case, he was not required to appear in court for trial or any proceedings and has a right not to testify in his own defense.

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