Donald Trump allegedly sexually assaulted her in the 90s, claims Stacey Williamsa former magazine model Sports Illustrated. Former President Donald Trump allegedly did so in what she believes was an attempt to show off Jeffrey Epstein. In his interview with CNN On Thursday, Williams gave a detailed account of her meeting with Trump, which allegedly took place outside Trump's office in Trump Tower in 1993. She was in her 20s, and she was briefly dating Epstein at the time. CNN reportedly spoke to three friends of the former model, who confirmed they were confidants of the incident with Trump and Epstein.
Williams claims it's a participation in a documentary about the swimsuit issue of Sports Illustrated which ultimately pushed her to speak out more publicly. She was interviewed in 2022, and refers to the incident with Trump, without mentioning his name directly. The documentary aired last weekend, and Williams said that when she found out her part would be included, she decided to share her story more publicly. “You want to be really, really ready [pour en parler]and I wasn’t,” she commented. “I think there's an evolution in how you deal with your abuse, or these types of incidents, and it doesn't happen overnight. »
A “humiliating” experience
Williams said she and Epstein were walking together on Fifth Avenue in New York when Epstein brought her to Trump Tower to meet Donald Trump. “As soon as he got in front of me, he pulled me towards him, and his hands were right on me and didn't come off,” Williams said. “And then the hands started moving, and they were on the side of my breasts, on my hips then on my butt, then on me the whole time. And I froze. I didn't understand what was happening. She claims the two men continued to talk, so Trump was touching her, “looking at each other and smiling.” “I think I was probably trying to smile and pretend to be engaged like you would in a normal social situation. But it was an out-of-body experience,” she said. “So, I don’t know if I spoke, I don’t know if I answered the questions, I don’t know. It was one of the strangest moments of my life. »
Once they went outside, she said Epstein chastised her for letting Trump touch her. Williams says she felt a “wave of shame” about what had happened. “I just had this really sickening feeling that it was coordinated, that somehow this whole thing was – I was rolled up there -in there like a piece of meat for some kind of weird, twisted game. And that only made things worse. And I just couldn't think about it, deal with it, talk about it for very long,” she said. “I put it in a little box inside me, turned the key, locked it. » She said she saw Epstein once or twice after that, before ending their relationship. “I realized there was something very dark and disturbing about him, and I finally told him to lose my number and stay very far away from me,” she added. Williams also avoided going to events where Trump might be. She then allegedly received a postcard from the business man, delivered to his modeling agency with a photo of Palm Beach on the front. “Stacey, your home away from home. I love you, Donald,” the undated card read.
Battle of allegations
Trump's team denies the allegations, and noted that Williams shared her story during a Zoom call Monday evening for the event Survivors for Kamala. The organization describes itself as “a coalition of survivors, survivor-led organizations, and people whose lives have been affected by sexual and gender-based violence in multiple ways.” It supports Vice President Kamala Harris' presidential bid against Trump, although the group is not directly affiliated with Harris' campaign. “We share a message: Kamala Harris is the only option in this election; Donald Trump is a convicted abuser; and the time has come to defend our lives and our freedom. »
“These accusations, announced on a call by the Harris campaign team two weeks before the election, are false,” the Trump campaign spokeswoman said. Caroline Leavitt. “It is clear that this false story was concocted by the Kamala Harris campaign team to distract from the deeply concerning and recently uncovered allegations that the second gentleman, Doug Emhoff“forcibly slapped” his ex-girlfriend. » A spokesperson for Emhoff – who is the husband of Kamala Harris – denied allegations made in a tabloid article that he assaulted a former girlfriend in 2012. After that article was published, Leavitt argued in a further statement that the handwriting on the postcard was not Trump's.
An addition to the long list of accusations
Williams' account joins a long list of women who have claimed, since he ran for president in 2016, that Trump touched, kissed or assaulted them. Trump has repeatedly denied the allegations. But one of these victims, E. Jean Carrollhas won two defamation cases against the presidential candidate in the past two years. Trump has also long sought to publicly distance himself from Epstein, ever since he was accused of inappropriate sexual conduct with children in the mid-2000s. Even so, Trump told the New York Magazine in 2002: “I have known Jeff for 15 years. He’s a great guy,” adding that Epstein “loves beautiful women as much as I do.” In July 2019, Epstein was found guilty of sex trafficking of minors, and committed suicide in his New York prison cell a month later. After his indictment, Trump told the media that he was unaware of his behavior. “I wasn’t a fan of Jeffrey Epstein,” he said. “And you saw people saying yesterday that I threw him out of a club. I wanted nothing to do with him. It was many, many years ago. This shows one thing: that I have good taste. OK? »
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During Trump's 2016 campaign, Williams said she chose not to come forward, in part for family reasons. It was from 2017 with the #MeToo movement that she says she found the courage to start talking about it. In 2019, she spoke privately about Epstein in a podcast, including raising the accusation against Trump. Williams also spoke about some details of the incident on her social media in 2020 and 2024, although her accounts are now private. Even though the election is less than two weeks away, she said her decision to speak out now was not motivated by the presidential campaign, but by the release of the documentary. However, she also confirmed her support for Kamala Haris during the call with Survivors for Kamala. She also said she hoped other people would be inspired by her story not to support Trump. “The idea of this monster being back in the White House is my worst nightmare. »
