She had $83 million reasons to celebrate.
E. Jean Carroll was spotted toasting her legal victory against Donald Trump — and her historic $83 million win — at a hip Lower East Side bar, Flower Shop, this week during a media party hosted by MSNBC contributor Molly Jong-Fast and Rolling Stone editor-in-chief Noah Shachtman.
Also at the downtown NYC party were MSNBC host Lawrence O’Donnell, “Studio 360” host Kurt Andersen, former “SNL” producer Marci Klein, Puck columnist Tara Palmeri, New York Times opinion writer Lydia Polgreen and Washington Post scribe Sarah Ellison.
The party was a media gathering — but we hear Carroll was the star of bash with guests gathering around to snap selfies and laud her as an “icon.”
We are told the former “Ask E. Jean” columnist attended with longtime pal Lisa Birnbach, the author of the ’80s must-have “The Official Preppy Handbook.”
Carroll recently appeared on Fast’s podcast “Fast Politics.”
A spy on the scene tells us the former Elle columnist “seemed jubilant” at the Tuesday night celebration, while another said, “She seemed delighted and vindicated. She was in awe [at the jury award] and victorious.”
Another witness said: “She was wearing what looked like a one piece flight suit in green khaki” at the party. “She looked like a hero. It’s great to see women winning the day.”
Yet another person at the party mused Carroll “could buy the bar.”
Carroll joked to MSNBC anchor Rachel Maddow this week that she’d use the money from the judgement for clothing, quipping, “First thing, Rachel, you and I are going to go shopping… We’re going to get completely new wardrobes, new shoes.”
When she also told Maddow, “What do you want? Penthouse? It’s yours, Rachel… You want France? You want to go fishing in France?” her lawyer, Shawn Crowley, chimed in to mention, “That’s a joke.”
Birnbach, who accompanied Carroll to the downtown media party, had testified at Carroll’s civil action against the former president — telling the court that Carroll had called her in 1996 and told her about Trump allegedly raping her in the changing room of Bergdorf Goodman.
Last week, Carroll was awarded $83 million for defamation in the case and Trump, 77, was ordered to pay $65 million in punitive damages, $11 in reputational damages and another $7.3 million in emotional damages, the jury ruled.
Trump was previously ordered to pay Carroll, 80, $5 million last year after a jury had earlier found that he forcibly penetrated her using his fingers, but he was cleared of a rape claim by the jury.
Judge Lewis Kaplan ruled in the case that Carroll’s testimony Trump “raped” her is “substantially true” in the sense of how people think about rape today, The Post reported.
Trump had also previously been found liable for defaming Carroll. The latest trial was to decide damages.
Carroll said the verdict is “a great victory for every woman who stands up when she’s been knocked down, and a huge defeat for every bully who has tried to keep a woman down.”
Trump said on his social media platform, “I fully disagree with both verdicts, and will be appealing this whole Biden Directed Witch Hunt focused on me and the Republican Party.”
Former Fox News anchor and NBC host Megyn Kelly had slammed Carroll after she told Maddow she would share some of her windfall from suing Trump. “This is the kind of clip that could win Trump the election,” Kelly wrote on her X account in response to the clip.
