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Former President Donald Trump likely owes $600 million from two civil judgments in New York: $355 million in disgorgement for ill-gotten profits, about $100 million in interest plus another $87,500 for every day he doesn't pay, and $83.3 million in defamation damages to writer E. Jean Carroll.
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