WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's lawyers are asking the Supreme ‌Court to overturn an $83.3 million defamation ‌judgment he was ordered to pay to writer E. ​Jean Carroll, Axios reported on Tuesday.

The U.S. Justice Department did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Court records showed earlier ‌this month that ⁠Carroll has collected nearly $5.63 million from Trump. She has won $88.3 million in ⁠civil verdicts against the president in the seven years since he first denied having ​raped her ​around 1996 in ​a Bergdorf Goodman ‌department store dressing room in Manhattan.

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

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

Trump's latest appeal reported ​by Axios comes ​a month after the justices declined to hear his bid to overturn the $5 ​million verdict ‌that jurors ordered him to pay ​Carroll.

(Reporting by Kanishka Singh in Washington; ​Editing by Tom Hogue)