Lawyers for President Donald Trump have asked a federal judge not to authorize a disbursement of a multi-million dollar damages award to magazine writer E. Jean Carroll to satisfy a 2023 civil verdict in ‌which a jury found him liable for sexually abusing and defaming her.

In a filing late on ​Tuesday night in Manhattan federal court, Trump's lawyers said Carroll should wait until the U.S. Supreme Court hears Trump's renewed bid to overturn the $5 million verdict, which has grown to about $5.8 ⁠million including interest.

The lawyers said Trump would be irreparably harmed and face "unrecoverable loss" if Carroll fulfills her ​stated intention to give away the money, because once she does the money likely could not be recovered.

They also ⁠said letting Carroll recover, only to have the Supreme Court grant a rehearing, would "undermine public confidence in an orderly judicial process" at a time when Trump's supporters and some critics, according to his lawyers, voice "concerns about politically motivated weaponization of the legal system."

A spokesperson for Carroll declined ‌to comment on Wednesday. The Supreme Court declined to hear Trump's appeal on June 29, and none of ​the nine justices ‌noted dissents.

The Supreme Court rarely takes up appeals after initially turning them down. Trump petitioned for a rehearing on Monday. A Tuesday docket entry said Trump's renewed ‌appeal was "not accepted for filing," without explanation.

Trump's lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The $5.8 million is being held in a court-supervised escrow account.

Carroll, 82, and Trump, 80, have battled ⁠in court for nearly seven years, after the former ‌Elle magazine advice columnist accused him of ⁠raping her around 1996 in a Bergdorf Goodman department store dressing room in Manhattan.

Trump has rejected Carroll's claims as a "hoax" and "con job," denying he ⁠knew ⁠her and saying she made up the alleged rape to help sell her memoir.

Jurors awarded Carroll the $5 million based on a Trump denial in 2022, though ‌they did not find that Trump raped her.

A different jury in January 2024 ordered Trump to pay Carroll $83.3 million in damages based on his original denial in 2019, which occurred during his first White House term.

Trump has ‌said he deserves ​presidential immunity for that denial. The Manhattan-based ‌2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to throw out the $83.3 million verdict last September.

Trump plans to appeal that verdict to the Supreme Court, and his lawyers said a successful appeal could ​undermine the basis for the $5 million verdict.

Carroll has accused Trump of stalling to avoid accountability. In a June 30 court filing, her lawyers said that "it is time for him to pay Carroll."