Stacey Williams, a former model, has publicly accused Donald Trump of groping her during a meeting in 1993, which she detailed in a CNN interview. Williams claims she was brought to Trump Tower in New York City by Jeffrey Epstein, who she was dating at the time. “The second he [Trump] was in front of me, he pulled me into him, and his hands were just on me and didn’t come off,” she recounted.
The Trump campaign responded emphatically to the claim, highlighting that Williams originally shared her story at a rally called "Survivors for Kamala,” in support of Democratic candidate Kamala Harris. Campaign spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt insisted, “These accusations… announced on a Harris Campaign call two weeks before the election, are unequivocally false.”
Leavitt accused the Harris campaign of fabricating the story to distract from allegations against Doug Emhoff, the husband of Kamala Harris, who faced accusations of slapping an ex-girlfriend in 2012 — a claim he has denied through a spokesperson.
Williams further described the encounter, stating that Trump’s hands roamed from her hips to her breasts and down to her buttocks, while Epstein and Trump conversed nearby. Williams described the experience as “an out of body experience,” stating she felt immobilized. She claims to have ended her relationship with Epstein shortly after the alleged incident.
Epstein, a convicted sex offender, was arrested in 2019 on charges of sex crimes before dying by suicide while awaiting trial, prompting renewed scrutiny of his connections to various public figures, including Trump. Since Trump's presidential candidacy announcement in 2016, multiple women have stepped forward with allegations of sexual assault against him. Trump has consistently denied all claims. In 2023, a civil jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll, and he subsequently lost two defamation lawsuits after making disparaging remarks about her.
