Former US President Donald Trump, who was sentenced to millions of dollars in compensation for sexual abuse and defamation, has appealed the verdict.
A New York jury on Tuesday saw it as proven that Trump had attacked and sexually abused the author E. Jean Carroll in 1996 in a New York luxury department store.
"He's ready to move on"
She also ordered for defamation that Trump must pay a total of five million dollars (about 4.56 million euros) to the now 79-year-old. Trump had already announced after the decision that he wanted to appeal. On Thursday, his lawyers filed a document with the court.
"He's ready to move on. He will fight it with an appeal," said Trump's lawyer Joseph Tacopina after the verdict.
The writer Carroll had accused Trump of raping her in the mid-1990s in a New York luxury department store. The jury rejected the accusation of rape.
The real estate entrepreneur, who was not yet active as a politician at the time, had always denied all accusations. Under criminal law, the allegations are time-barred, but the now 79-year-old Carroll had legal recourse open to him under civil law.