The longtime "Ask E. Jean" columnist called her $83 million win Friday "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," Carroll said in a statement through her attorney two hours after a jury awarded the shocking eight-digit figure.

"Today’s verdict proves that the law applies to everyone in our country, even the rich, even the famous, even former presidents," Carroll attorney Robbie Kaplan added.

"There is a way to stand up to someone like Donald Trump who cares more about wealth, fame, and power than respecting the law.

Standing up to a bully takes courage and bravery; it takes someone like E. Jean Carroll. We thank the jury for standing up for E. Jean and the rule of law.”

The Post reported in November that despite Trump's legal woes — in the form of multiple concurrent cases against him — his wealth had reportedly jumped $500 million.

The half-billion dollar surge came thanks to some shrewd moves, according to a report at the time. They included:

• moving to low-tax Florida
• selling off assets
• and paying down personal debts

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Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba blasted the $83 million verdict that a jury handed down against the former president Friday afternoon as "a violation of our justice system."

"Don't get it twisted — we're seeing a violation of our justice system, ladies and gentlemen," the impassioned lawyer said outside Manhattan federal court after the bombshell decision came down.

"Before I walked into court, that judge decided that every single defense President Trump had, we were not allowed to raise in front of the jury," Habba said.

In a post on Truth Social, Trump said he'd be appealing the verdict.

Donald Trump was ordered Friday to pay a whopping $83 million in damages for defaming E. Jean Carroll, the advice columnist whom a prior jury found that Trump sexually assaulted inside a department store fitting room.

The jury verdict was broken down into $65 million meant to punish Trump, $11 million to help Carroll rebuild her reputation and another $7.3 million to compensate her for her pain and suffering.

The verdict, handed down by a separate jury of five men and four women in Manhattan federal court, includes $65 million in damages meant to punish the billionaire ex-president, 77, for acting “out of hatred, ill will, or spite” by claiming to have “never met” Carroll — even after jurors last May found him liable for abusing the writer inside a Manhattan Bergdorf Goodman.

“This case is about getting him to stop, once and for all,” Carroll’s attorney Roberta Kaplan had told jurors in closing arguments Friday morning.

Trump was also ordered to pay $11 million toward Carroll rebuilding her reputation after Trump claimed in June 2019 — within hours of Carroll going public with her allegations — that the “Ask E Jean” columnist was a “whack job” who should “pay dearly” for accusing him.

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Donald Trump blasted the whopping $83 million verdict he was ordered to pay accuser E. Jean Carroll for defaming her.

"Absolutely ridiculous!" Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social roughly 20 minutes after the verdict came down Friday afternoon.

He was not in the courtroom when it was handed down.

Trump said he was appealing the decision and repeated his refrain that the case was a "witch hunt."

"Our Legal System is out of control, and being used as a Political Weapon," the post continued. "They have taken away all First Amendment Rights. THIS IS NOT AMERICA!"

E. Jean Carroll hugged her two lawyers after a jury read out a verdict ordering Donald Trump to pay a whopping $83 million for defaming the journalist.

Before the verdict was read, the "Ask E. Jean" advice columnist held hands with her lawyers Roberta Kaplan and Shawn Crowley.

The former president had already left the building when the decision came down.

When the Big Apple journalist walked out of court, arm-in-arm with her lawyers, she flashed a grin before hopping in a black SUV — without answering questions by reporters.

Donald Trump was ordered Friday to pay $83.3 million in damages for defaming E. Jean Carroll, the advice columnist whom a prior jury had already found Trump sexually assaulted inside a department store fitting room.

The former president, 77, had already left court when the verdict was read.

The jurors — five men and four women — rendered their decision after just under three hours of deliberations.

Carroll’s side had been seeking at least $24 million in damages.

The jury has reached a verdict in under three hours in E. Jean Carroll's defamation damages case against Donald Trump.

The verdict will be read out at 4:35 p.m., according to a courthouse source.

A Manhattan federal jury was released from the courtroom to begin deliberating in the defamation damages trial that E. Jean Carroll brought against Donald Trump.

Jurors were told to start the decision-making process around 1:40 p.m. over their lunch break.

Judge Lewis Kaplan told the panel members to send him a note if they don't reach a decision by 4:30 p.m. to tell him if they want to break for the weekend or ask him if they can stay longer Friday to continue.

A Manhattan federal judge gave jurors instructions before sending them off to start deliberations in E. Jean Carroll's trial against Donald Trump.

Judge Lewis Kaplan explained to the jury again that Trump was already found liable for sexually abusing Carroll, lying about it and knowing that he was lying when he denied her allegations.

The jury is only tasked with determining what amount, if any, Trump should be ordered to pay Carroll in damages.

A jury in May 2023 ordered the former president to pay Carroll $5 million in damages after it found he sexually assaulted her and then defamed her.

Donald Trump stayed put in a Manhattan courtroom while a lawyer for E. Jean Carroll ripped him as a liar in front of jurors.

"Ladies and gentlemen, his ‘truth’ is a lie," Carroll's lawyer Shawn Crowley told the jury. “That may be how Donald Trump lives his life, but that’s not how it works in a court of law."

Trump earlier Friday stormed out of the courtroom as Carroll's lawyer Roberta Kaplan kicked off closing arguments.

But the former president returned when his lawyer Alina Habba delivered her closing remarks, and remained listening for Crowley's as well.

Donald Trump lawyer Alina Habba wrapped closing arguments, claiming E. Jean Carroll's case is about online trolls rather than about the former president.

Habba claimed that Trump shouldn't be held responsible for the hateful messages and death threats that Carroll received after going public with sexual assault allegations against Trump.

"Ladies and gentlemen, this isn't about President Trump and E. Jean Carroll, this is about some people in their mothers’ basements who will always be mean on social media, you can’t stop that," the firebrand lawyer told jurors as she finished her closing arguments.

Carroll's lawyers argued that Trump "unleashed his followers" on the "Ask E. Jean" writer, but Habba said Trump was only defending himself when he said he didn't know Carroll and claimed she wasn't his type when he was in office in June 2019.

After Habba concluded, Carroll's other lawyer, Shawn Crowley, started rebuttal arguments.