New accusation of harassment against Donald Trump. And less than two weeks until the presidential elections on November 5. A former model who says she met the former president and Republican candidate through sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein (1953-2019) has accused Trump of groping and sexually touching her in an incident at Trump Tower in 1993 in what she believes was a “twisted game” between both men.
Stacey Williams, who worked as a professional model in the 1990s, has said she first met Trump in 1992 at a Christmas party after she was introduced to him by Epstein, who she believed was a good friend of the then-real estate developer. New Yorker. Williams said Epstein became interested in her and the two dated for a few months.
“It was very clear that he and Donald were very, very good friends and that they spent a lot of time together,” Williams said. The alleged touching occurred a few months later, in the late winter or early spring of 1993, when Epstein suggested during a walk that he and Williams stop by to visit Trump at Trump Tower. Epstein was later convicted of sex crimes and committed suicide in prison in 2019.
Moments after they arrived, she alleges, Trump greeted Williams, pulled her toward him and began groping her. The former model says that he put his hands on her breasts, as well as on her waist and buttocks. She said she froze because she was “deeply confused” about what was happening. At the same time, he thinks he saw the two men smiling at each other.
Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary of Donald Trump’s campaign, has denied the accusations: “These accusations, made by a former Barack Obama activist and announced in a Harris campaign call two weeks before the election, are unequivocally false. “It is obvious that this false story was concocted by the Harris campaign.”
Williams says Trump sent his agent a postcard by courier later, in 1993: an aerial view of Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach residence and resort. He shared it with The Guardian. In his own handwriting – using what appears to be his usual black Sharpie marker – he wrote: “Stacey, your home away from home. Love, Donald.”
Williams, 56, of Pennsylvania, has shared parts of her accusation in social media posts in the past, but revealed details about the alleged encounter in a call Monday organized by a group called Survivors for Kamala, which supports the Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Among others, actress Ashley Judd and law professor and academic Anita Hill participated in the video call via Zoom. Survivors for Kamala also took out an ad in the New York Times this week, signed by 200 survivors of sexual and gender-based violence, which was intended to serve as a reminder that Trump has been found responsible for sexual abuse in court.
After the alleged incident, Williams said that she and Epstein left Trump Tower, and that she began to feel that Epstein was becoming increasingly angry with her: “Jeffrey and I left and he didn’t look at me or talk to me and I felt this boiling rage. around me and when we got to the sidewalk, he looked at me and just scolded me, and said, ‘Why did you let him do that?’
“It made me feel very bad and I remember being very confused,” she says, describing the alleged incident as part of a “twisted game.”
“I felt ashamed and disgusted, and when we each went our separate ways, I had the sensation of seeing him again, while he touched me. And I had this horrible knot in my stomach that it was somehow orchestrated. “I felt like a piece of meat,” he says in a conversation with The Guardian.
She and Epstein separated shortly afterward. Williams said he was never aware of the pattern of sexual abuse that would later become known. Epstein is considered one of the worst and most prolific pedophiles in modern history.
The accusation of unwanted sexual touching and groping is a well-documented mode of behavior by Trump.
Around twenty women have accused the former president, who has been convicted of multiple crimes, of sexual misconduct dating back decades. Among the accusations are testimonies that Trump kissed them without their consent, put his hand up their skirts and, in the case of some beauty pageant contestants, surprised them in the locker room.
A former model named Amy Dorris shared accusations about Trump similar to those Williams described in a conversation with The Guardian in 2020. Trump denied harassing, abusing or behaving inappropriately toward Dorris.
Last year, a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing columnist E Jean Carroll in 1996 and paid him $5 million in judgment.
In this case, Williams’ accusations raise new questions about Trump’s relationship with Epstein: until now, no evidence has emerged that Trump was aware of or involved in Epstein’s abuses.
But Trump and Epstein had known each other for decades and were photographed at the same social events in the 1990s and early 2000s, years before Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida in 2008 to state charges of soliciting and facilitating a minor for prostitution.
“I have known Jeff for 15 years. He’s a great guy,” Trump told New York Magazine in 2002. “He’s a lot of fun to be around. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
After Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges in 2019, Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that he “knew him, as everyone in Palm Beach knew him,” but that he had a “disagreement.” with Epstein in the early 2000s.
“I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years,” Trump said, “but I wasn’t a fan of his, I can tell you that.”
Williams has said she wants to avoid negative attention or risk the backlash that many other survivors have faced when asked if she had considered coming forward in the past when other women were making accusations against Trump.
“I left the business,” he says. “I disappeared on purpose because I love being anonymous and the life of being a private citizen. Then I saw what has happened to women who come forward to report and it is so horrible. The idea of doing it, especially as a mother with a child at home, was not possible,” she tells The Guardian.
“I simply chose, in my own way, comments on social networks to contradict people who said that he had not done anything,” he explains. Like other victims, she says, she has processed what happened to her and has become more confident in facing an angry reaction.
Williams spoke about the allegations with at least two friends who have spoken to The Guardian. A friend, who asked not to be identified, says Williams told her about the alleged incident in 2005 or 2006 during a chat in which Williams mentioned that she knew Epstein and that he had introduced her to Trump. The friend clearly remembers Williams telling her she had been groped by Trump. Epstein was not a well-known name at the time, but the friend recalled the anecdote later, when the Epstein scandal broke. “What I remember is that it was groping… what we would call groping someone,” the friend says.
Ally Gutwillinger, another longtime friend of Williams, said she told him about the alleged incident in 2015. Gutwillinger remembers the moment because Trump had announced he was running for president.
“I went to his house sometime that week and I saw a postcard of Mar-a-Lago and I said, ‘What is this?’ and she said ‘Turn it over,’” Gutwillinger says. “He said something like, ‘He’s vile, he put his hands on me in Trump Tower.’”
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