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Donald Trump has been publicly accused of sexual assault by about two dozen women, and now another name has been added to the list.
Stacey Williams, a former model, said that Trump groped her in 1993 — putting his hands “all over” her breasts as well as her waist and buttocks without her consent — as the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein looked on. Williams said the incident occurred when Epstein, whom she was dating at the time, suggested they stop into Trump Tower, and it seemed to be a “twisted game” between the two men.
Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt released a statement calling Williams’s claims “unequivocally false.”
Model Stacey Williams stands at a Sports Illustrated promotional event January 23, 1996 in New York City.
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Williams has previously mentioned parts of her allegation on social media, but she publicly described the incident in detail for the first time during a Zoom call on Monday organized Survivors4Harris, a group of sexual-abuse survivors supporting Kamala Harris. Williams then shared more information with The Guardian for a story that was published Wednesday night.
In video from the call, which was posted by The Guardian, Williams said she met Epstein at a 1992 dinner with other models. She saw him again at Donald Trump’s Christmas party that year, and realized that “he and Donald were really, really good friends.” A short time later, Williams began dating Epstein. She said he “mentioned Trump frequently. He was clearly a close friend and they were spending a lot of time together.”
Williams recalled that in the “late winter or early spring” of 1993, she was on a walk with Epstein when he suggested they stop by Trump Tower to visit his friend. This is what Williams said happened after they went up the elevator:
Moments later, Trump was greeting us. And he pulled me into him, and started groping me. He put his hands all over my breasts, my waist, my butt. And I froze. And I froze because I was so deeply confused about what was happening because the hands were moving all over me yet these two men were like smiling at one another and continuing on in their conversation.
Williams said Epstein was quiet and seemed rageful as they exited the building:
When we got down to the sidewalk he looked at me and started just berating me. He kept saying, “Why did you let him do that? Why did you let him put his hands all over you?” And he made me feel so disgusting.
She said that as she “absorbed what happened,” a few minutes later she started to feel that Trump and Epstein had been toying with her. “I felt like that was some sort of sick bet or game between the two of them,” she said. “I was rolled in there like a piece of meat for some kind of challenge or twisted game. And I felt horrendous.”
Soon after, Williams’s agent received a postcard via courier from Trump. The front showed an aerial view of his Mar-a-Lago resort, and on the back was written in Sharpie, “Stacey — Your home away from home. Love Donald.” The Guardian published a photo of the postcard.
Trump campaign press secretary Karoline Leavitt responded to The Guardian with a statement that said, in part: “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.”
Trump has previously denied all of the sexual-misconduct claims against him. In May 2023, a Manhattan jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing and defaming E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of raping her in a Manhattan department store in late 1995 or early 1996. In January 2024, the jury in a separate case found Trump liable for defaming Carroll. Trump is appealing both verdicts.
