With less than two weeks left before the November polls, a former model accused former US President Trump of “groping” her after she was introduced to him by late convicted sexual offender Jeffrey Epstein. Ex-model Stacey Williams said that the incident took place back in 1992 at the Trump Tower in Manhattan.
During the ’90s, Stacey was working as a professional model. She told The Guardian that she met Trump in 1992 at a Christmas party and it was Epstein who introduced her to him. Williams also noted that Epstein was interested in her and the two casually dated for a period of a few months.
“It became very clear then that he and Donald were really, really good friends and spent a lot of time together,” Williams said. The former model noted that months later in 1993, Epstein suggested that the couple should stop by to visit Trump.
Williams recalled that Trump greeted her, pulled her toward him and started groping her. She said that the former president put his hands “all over my breasts” as well as her waist and her buttocks. She said she froze because she was “deeply confused” about what was happening. At the same time, she said she believed she saw the two men smiling at each other.
The infamous postcard
Williams recalled that later in 1993, Trump sent her agent a postcard via courier. The postcard featured an aerial view of Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach residence and resort. She shared it with The Guardian. In his handwriting, Trump wrote: “Stacey – Your home away from home. Love Donald”. The 56-year-old model also said that after she and Epstein left Trump Tower, and that she began to feel Epstein growing angry at her.
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More Shorts“Jeffrey and I left and he didn’t look at me or speak to me and I felt this seething rage around me, and when we got down to the sidewalk, he looked at me and just berated me, and said why did you do that?” she said. “He made me feel so disgusting and I remember being so utterly confused.”
“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,” she added.
Trump’s campaign denies the allegations
Trump campaign’s Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt issued a statement immediately after Williams’s accusation stirred headlines. She denied the allegations hurled by the former model and called it a “fake story”.
“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,” she said in a statement on Wednesday. Meanwhile, Trump has yet to respond to the allegations.
Last year, a jury found the ex-president liable for sexually abusing the columnist E. Jean Carroll in 1996. Carroll was awarded $5 million in a judgment.