Former President Donald Trump gives a “thumbs up” to the media as he leaves following his appearance in Swannanoa, October 21, 2024. Photo: Angela Wilhelm/Citizen Times / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images
A woman is speaking out against Donald Trump, saying that he sexually assaulted her in 1993 after Jeffrey Epstein – the convicted sex offender who procured children and women for his elite associates to abuse – brought her to his apartment in New York City.
“He put his hands all over my breasts, my waist, my butt, and I froze,” former model Stacey Williams, now 56, said of the alleged assault by Trump. “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.”
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Williams was speaking on a Zoom call with the group Survivors for Kamala on Monday, which is an organization of sexual and gender-based violence survivors advocating for Vice President Kamala Harris.
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She said that she met Epstein at a restaurant in the early 1990s when she was working as a model and that she got to know him. She said she liked him because “he was politically engaged and wasn’t infantilizing me.”
Williams said that she saw him again at a party at Trump’s Plaza Hotel. “It became very clear then that he and Donald were really, really good friends and spent a lot of time together,” she said.
“After that, Jeffery Epstein expressed a lot of interest in me and we started seeing each other. When Jeffrey and I would talk, he mentioned Trump frequently, he was clearly a close friend and they were spending a lot of time together.”
She said that she went for a walk with Epstein in the spring of 1993 when he offered to take her to meet Trump.
“And so we went to Trump Tower and went up the elevator and, moments later, Trump was greeting us, and he pulled me into him and started groping me,” she said.
“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.”
“We, Jeffrey and I, left and I got into the elevator with him and I felt this like… He didn’t look at me, he didn’t speak to me and I felt this like, seething rage around him,” she continued. “His whole energy shifted. And when we got down to the sidewalk, he looked at me and started just berating me.”
She said that he asked her: “Why did you let him do that? Why did you let him put his hands all over you?” Williams said that she blamed herself and that she felt “so disgusting” and “humiliated.”
“As I absorbed what happened a few minutes later, I felt like that was some sort of sick bet or game between the two of them. That’s… I was rolled in there like a piece of meat for some kind of challenge or twisted game. And I felt horrendous,” Williams said.
Williams said that a while later she got a postcard from Mar-a-Lago that said, “Stacey – Your home away from home. Love Donald.” She said she still has the postcard.
Williams said that she was speaking out now because “the thought of that monster being back in the White House is my absolute worst nightmare.”
Williams joins the ranks of at least 27 women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual harassment or assault, including E. Jean Carroll, whose accusations were affirmed by a jury earlier this year. Trump was ordered to pay her $83 million for sexually abusing her in the 1990s and for defaming her by claiming she lied about it.
