Days after the article was published, in December 2024, ministers announced they would take legal action. During the trial in April, the minister and his lawyers argued that the article’s mention of ministers unfairly associated their real estate businesses with treaties in the rest of the article, which included concerns about transparency and money laundering.
US President Donald Trump paid writer E. Jean Carroll more than $5 million (£3.7 million) in damages three years after he was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming her in a civil case, his lawyers have confirmed. “Today we are pleased to report that he has received the damages the jury awarded him as