During the closing arguments of American author E. Jean Carroll's second defamation trial against Donald Trump, the former US president unexpectedly left the courtroom.
Shortly after Carroll's lawyer, Roberta Kaplan, began her appeal today, Trump stood up without warning and left the room, US media reported unanimously.
Trump returned to court for his lawyers' closing argument. Why he left the hall and where he initially went is still unclear.
The trial could be concluded and handed over to the jury today. This is 80-year-old Carroll's second trial against Trump.
At the end of the first trial in May, a New York jury concluded that it was proven that Trump attacked Carroll in a luxury New York warehouse in 1996, sexually abused him and later slandered him. The jury then awarded the writer five million dollars in compensation (around 4.65 million euros).
Because she also found Trump's subsequent comments to be defamatory, Carroll sued again.