Former model Stacey Williams accuses Donald Trump of groping her

Another woman has come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault, two weeks before the presidential election.

Stacey Williams has accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in the 1990s.

Another woman has come forward to accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault, a mere two weeks before the presidential election on November 5.

Stacey Williams, a former model, alleges Mr Trump touched her in 1993, after she was introduced to him by sexual trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.

Epstein, having been arrested over his alleged trafficking and abuse of underage girls, took his own life in prison in 2019.

Ms Williams alleges she was subjected to a “twisted game” between Epstein and Mr Trump.

“It became very clear then that he and Donald were really, really good friends and spent a lot of time together,” she told The Guardian.

Stacey Williams, pictured in 1996. Picture: Evan Agostini/Liaison

She claims Mr Trump groped her at his chief Manhattan property, Trump Tower, in 1993. She first met the former US president at a Christmas party the previous year.

Ms Williams said she had casually dated Epstein for a few months.

On a walk with Epstein, she recalled, he suggested they visit Trump Tower.

She alleges that after they arrived, Mr Trump pulled her towards him and started to grope her. Ms Williams says she was “deeply confused” by what was happening, so froze.

“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,” said Karoline Leavitt, a spokeswoman for the Trump campaign.

“It’s obvious this fake story was contrived by the Harris campaign.”

According to Ms Williams, Mr Trump sent her agent a postcard later in 1993, after the alleged incident. On its front was an aerial view of his Florida resort, Mar-a-Lago.

“Stacey: Your home away from home. Love, Donald,” he wrote on the back.

Donald Trump. Picture: Chandan Khanna/AFP

Ms Williams alleges she was “berated” by Epstein after the encounter due to her reluctance to engage with Mr Trump.

“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 recounted.

“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 made the allegation during a Zoom call organised by a group called Survivors for Kamala on Monday, US time.

The group, also attended by actress Ashley Judd, aimed to remind voters that Mr Trump has been found liable in civil court proceedings for the sexual abuse of author E. Jean Carroll.

Donald and Melania Trump, in 2000, with Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell. Picture: Davidoff Studios/Getty Images

Ms Williams, explaining why she did not come forward with her allegations before, said she had “disappeared on purpose” because she preferred to be “anonymous”.

“Then I watched what has happened to women who come out and it is so horrifying and abusive,” she told The Guardian.

She said she had told multiple friends about the alleged groping, one in the mid-2000s and another in the mid-2010s.

Mr Trump’s friendship with Epstein is not a new revelation. In an interview with New York Magazine in 2002, he joked about the financier’s liking for women “on the younger side”.

“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Mr Trump said at the time, long before Epstein was charged with soliciting sex from an underage girl.

“He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

When he was president, Mr Trump said he “knew” Epstein like “everybody in Palm Beach”, but fell out with him in the late 2000s.

“I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years,” Mr Trump said then.

“I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you.”

Originally published as Former model Stacey Williams accuses Donald Trump of groping her