A former model has alleged that Donald Trump groped her in Trump Tower in 1993 with Jeffrey Epstein present, The Guardian reported Wednesday.
Stacey Williams told the outlet that she first met Trump through Epstein at a 1992 Christmas party. Months later, she and Epstein visited Trump at his namesake building in Manhattan. The story goes on that shortly after the pair arrived, Trump welcomed Williams by pulling her toward him and groping her.
She told The Guardian the she froze as Trump put his hands “all over my breasts” as well her waist and buttocks, adding she was “deeply confused” as the incident unfolded. She claimed she saw Epstein and Trump smile at each other.
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The Trump campaign has denied Williams’ claim. Spokesperson Karoline Leavitt told The Guardian, “These accusations, made by a former activist for Barack Obama and announced on a Harris campaign call two weeks before the election, are unequivocally false. It’s obvious this fake story was contrived by the Harris campaign.”
Williams, now 56, shared details of her allegations on a Zoom call organized by Survivors for Kamala, a group that took out a full-page ad in The New York Times this week reminding readers that Trump was “found liable for sexual abuse in a court of law” in a case brought by writer E. Jean Carroll. On the call, Williams claimed that Epstein berated her on the sidewalk after Trump groped her.
“He made me feel so disgusting and I remember being so utterly confused,” she said of Epstein, adding that what had happened seemed to be a part of a “twisted game.”
“I felt shame and disgust and as we went our separate ways, I felt this sensation of revisiting it, while the hands were all over me. And I had this horrible pit in my stomach that it was somehow orchestrated. I felt like a piece of meat,” Williams told The Guardian.
She said she was never aware of the sexual abuse perpetrated by Epstein, which would not come to light until years later.
No evidence has ever emerged that Trump was aware of the financier’s abuse, nor was he implicated in Epstein’s crimes.
The former president was quick to distance himself from Epstein following Epstein’s arrest on child sex trafficking charges in 2019, with a lawyer for the Trump Organization claiming at the time that Trump had “no relationship” with Epstein.
In reality, they had known each other for decades and had been pictured together on multiple occasions. Trump himself tried to downplay their ties, telling journalists in the Oval Office in 2019 that he knew Epstein “like everybody in Palm Beach knew him,” adding that he hadn’t spoken to him in 15 years following an unspecified falling out. “I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you,” Trump added at the time.
His comments were dramatically different from the fawning quotes he used to give reporters about Epstein.
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy,” he told New York magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
Trump had been photographed with Epstein at his Mar-a-Lago resort in 2000 and 1997. NBC News also in 2019 published footage of them together at a party in 1992, apparently showing them discussing women dancing in front of them at a party.
One of Epstein’s victims, Virginia Giuffre, was also working at Mar-a-Lago as a locker room attendant when she was approached by Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell asking Giuffre if she’d like to earn extra money by giving massages. Giuffre, who was 17 at the time, says the offer ultimately led to her being sexually abused by Epstein.
Flight logs entered into evidence during Maxwell’s trial for her role in helping Epstein abuse girls showed that Trump flew with Epstein at least seven times during the 1990s.
In a strange twist of fate, Trump also flew on a private jet that once belonged to Epstein this August while traveling between political fundraisers.
His campaign told The Daily Beast at the time that Trump and his staff had “no idea” about the aircraft’s previous owner and said they’d instructed the charter company never to lease them that plane again.
