



A former model has accused Donald Trump of groping her after the two were introduced by sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s, The Guardian newspaper reported on Wednesday.
Stacey Williams said she met the Republican White House candidate at a party in 1992 after being introduced by the disgraced financier, whom she had dated.
“It became very clear then that he and Donald were really, really good friends and spent a lot of time together,” Williams was quoted as saying.
Williams discussed the alleged assault on a call on Monday organized by Survivors for Kamala, a lobby group supporting Trump’s Democratic presidential rival Kamala Harris.
Epstein, who was convicted on sex offenses and killed himself in prison in 2019, paid Trump an impromptu visit with Williams in 1992 at his New York office block, where Trump pulled her toward him and began groping her, she alleged.
Williams, now 56, says he put his hands “all over” her breasts, waist and buttocks, causing her to freeze on the spot, and she noticed that the two men appeared to be smiling at each other.
“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 let him do that?’” she told participants on the call.
“He made me feel so disgusting and I remember being so utterly confused,” she said, according to The Guardian, added that the incident appeared to her to be a “twisted game.”
“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 told the newspaper.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to AFP’s request for comment, but The Guardian quoted a campaign spokeswoman dismissing the allegations as a “fake” story.
She said it was invented by the Harris campaign and described Williams “a former activist” for Democratic ex-president Barack Obama.
Williams shared a postcard depicting Trump’s south Florida mansion she said he had sent her agent after the episode, with the message, in his handwriting: “Stacey – Your home away from home. Love Donald.”
Trump has been accused of sexual assault or harassment by more than 20 women but denies all wrongdoing.
He was ordered by a New York court in January to pay $83.3 million to compensate the writer E. Jean Carroll, whom he was found liable for sexually assaulting and defaming.