In a recent interview with CNN, Stacey Williams, a former model, made allegations that Donald Trump groped her in the early 1990s, an incident she claims occurred in Trump Tower in New York City. Williams stated that the encounter took place in 1993 after she was introduced to Trump by Jeffrey Epstein, whom she describes as her then-boyfriend.
During the interview, Williams recounted her experience, saying, “The second he [Trump] was in front of me, he pulled me into him, and his hands were just on me and didn’t come off.” She vividly described Trump’s hands as moving “the side of my breasts, on my hips, back down to my butt" while Epstein looked on, smiling and conversing with Trump. The former model described the moment as "an out of body experience," expressing that she felt frozen during the encounter.
The Trump campaign has responded to the allegations by categorically denying them, with spokesperson Karoline Leavitt asserting that the accusations, first revealed at a political event for Kamala Harris, were fabricated for political gain. Leavitt stated, "It’s obvious this fake story was contrived by the Harris campaign to distract from the deeply concerning and newly unearthed allegations against Doug Emhoff.”
Doug Emhoff, Harris's husband, was recently accused in a separate incident by an ex-girlfriend who claims he slapped her in 2012, an assertion that he has denied. The Harris campaign has yet to comment on the ongoing allegations against both Emhoff and Trump.
Williams noted that she ended her relationship with Epstein shortly after the alleged encounter. Epstein, who faced numerous legal troubles, was arrested in 2019 for sex crimes and died by suicide while in custody awaiting trial. Trump has faced multiple accusations of sexual misconduct since entering the political sphere in 2016, all of which he has consistently denied. Most recently, a civil jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse against writer E. Jean Carroll in 2023, a decision that has led to two defamation lawsuits won by Carroll against him.
