A former model claimed in an interview with CNN that she was molested by former President Donald Trump in the 1990s.
Stacey Williams says the incident occurred in 1993 when disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein took her to Trump Tower in New York Meet Trump.
“The second one [Trump] “He was right in front of me and he pulled me into his arms and he just put his hands on me and didn’t let go,” Ms Williams told the broadcaster.
The Trump campaign denied the claim, noting that the former model originally shared the story at an event called “Kamala Survivors” to support Trump’s rival, the Democratic White House candidate. Kamala Harris.
“These allegations … were announced on a Harris campaign call two weeks before the election and are unequivocally false,” Trump campaign spokesperson Carolyn Leavitt said in a statement.
“It’s clear that this fake story was concocted by the Harris campaign to distract from the allegation that the second ‘gentleman,’ Doug Emhoff, slapped his ex-girlfriend hard across the face, which The allegation is deeply concerning.
According to the Daily Mail, Harris’ husband Doug Emhoff was accused by his ex-girlfriend of slapping her in the face in 2012.
The BBC has not revealed the identity of Emhoff’s reported ex-girlfriend or the veracity of her claims.
Emhoff denied the accusation through a spokesman. The Harris campaign did not respond to the BBC’s request for comment.
Ms. Williams told CNN that Trump greeted her and his hands touched “the sides of my breasts, my butt, my back, my butt, my back… they were all over me” while Mr. Stan and the former president smiled and talked to each other.
She described it as “an out-of-body experience” and said she was “stunned”.
Shortly after the alleged incident, Williams said she broke up with Epstein, who was arrested in 2019 for sex crimes and died by suicide while awaiting trial.
Since Trump announced his candidacy for president in 2016, multiple women have come forward to accuse Trump of sexual assault.
In 2023, a civil jury found the Republican White House nominee responsible for the sexual abuse of author E Jean Carroll. She won two defamation lawsuits against the former president after he made defamatory comments about her.
