Left: Former magazine columnist, E. Jean Carroll, center, enters a vehicle outside of Manhattan federal court following the verdict in her second defamation trial against former U.S. president, Donald Trump. (Photo by Jimin Kim/SOPA Images/Sipa USA)(Sipa via AP Images)/ Former President Donald Trump leaves his apartment building, Friday, Jan. 26, 2024, in New York. AP Photo/Yuki Iwamura)

A judge in New York has formally approved Donald Trump’s $91.63 million bond to pay the writer he sexually abused and defamed, E. Jean Carroll.

The former president now has less than a week to sort out the final details of the bond with the clerk for the Southern District of New York, according to U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan. Then, the $88.3 million he owes Carroll will be put on hold until his appeal of his court-ordered defeat is heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.