The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals agreed on Tuesday to a request by Trump's lawyer that it let the president delay the payment to E Jean Carroll, though it required that Trump post a $US7.4 million ($A10.2 million) bond to cover any additional interest costs.
The appeals court in April refused Trump's request for a rare meeting of the full 2nd Circuit to hear an appeal of a three-judge panel's affirmance of the January 2024 verdict.
Afterward, Trump lawyer Justin D. Smith asked the 2nd Circuit to stay the effect of its decision upholding the award so that Trump would not be forced to pay the judgment before the high court has a chance to consider an appeal.
Smith said last week there was a "fair prospect" that the Supreme Court will find in favour of Trump, who has called Carroll's claims first made publicly in 2019 that she was sexually attacked by Trump in a Manhattan luxury department store dressing room in spring 1996 a "made up scam".
The $US83 million award to Carroll, 82, came from a jury that briefly heard Trump testify and observed his animated behaviour for several days.
In upholding the verdict, a 2nd Circuit panel wrote in September that Trump continued his attacks against Carroll for at least five years, making them "more extreme and frequent as the trial approached".
"He also continued these same attacks during the trial itself," the appeals court said.
"In one such statement, issued two days into the trial, Trump proclaimed that he would continue to defame Carroll 'a thousand times'."
The jury had been instructed to accept the findings of a jury that in May 2023 awarded Carroll $US5 million ($A6.9 million) after concluding Trump sexually abused her in the department store and then defamed her after she published her account of it in a 2019 memoir.
Trump is challenging the $US83 million award on several grounds, asserting "absolute immunity" for comments he made while president as he disavowed knowing Carroll and attacked her motivations, saying they were politically driven or arose from a desire to promote her memoir.
