12/16/2024

ABC News to Pay $15 Million in Trump Defamation Suit Settlement

It's a rare victorious court settlement for the real estate mogul

ABC News will pay $15 million to settle a defamation lawsuit that President-elect Donald Trump brought against the network and anchor George Stephanopoulos in March.

The settlement, which was publicly filed in the Southern District of Florida Miami Division on Saturday, states that ABC will make a $15 million contribution to a "Presidential foundation and museum to be established by or for plaintiff" and pay $1 million in Trump's attorney fees.

As part of the agreement, the defendants were also instructed to issue a statement of "regret" in an editor's note for a March 10 segment of Stephanopoulos’s This Week program, in which the anchor allegedly made false statements that Trump had been found civilly liable for the rape of writer E. Jean Carroll.

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