The full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit rejected his final attempt to challenge a jury's finding that he sexually abused and defamed her. Donald Trump must now start payment of having his assets seized.

A federal appeals court Wednesday rejected President Donald Trump’s latest effort to throw out writer E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against him, ruling against the president’s request to have the government step in for him as a party in the case—and putting Trump one step closer to having to pay out $83 million in damages.

A federal appeals court won’t reconsider its ruling upholding a $5 million civil judgment against President Donald Trump in a civil lawsuit alleging he sexually abused a writer in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.