Trump Accusers Should Come Out Again
List of Trump's accusers and their allegations of sexual misconduct
The president has repeatedly denied all accusations of inappropriate beliefs.
At least 18 women have accused Donald Trump of varying inappropriate behavior, including allegations of sexual harassment or sexual assault. All but ii came forward with their accusations earlier or during his first bid for the White Business firm.
The latest accusation comes from Amy Dorris, a one-time model who told The Guardian this week that Trump forcibly kissed and groped her at the U.Southward. Open tennis tournament in 1997, prompting a new deprival from the Trump entrada with weeks to become until the 2020 ballot.
Trump has vehemently denied all of the various women'southward accusations multiple times. In some cases, he and his team members take specifically denied individual accusations, but they have besides repeatedly issued coating denials against all the allegations, calling the women liars.
The topic resurfaced in fall 2018 while Trump defended his Supreme Courtroom nominee Brett Kavanaugh. In defending Kavanaugh against allegations of a sexual set on during high school, which Kavanaugh denied, Trump took the opportunity to push back against the various accusations against him that arose during his first presidential run.
At a Sept. 27, 2018, press conference, Trump brushed off what he called "false accusations" he has faced, saying that he was "accused by iv or five women who got paid to make upwardly stories about me."
"I mean, they made false statements almost me, knowing they were false. I never met them. I never met these people. And, what did they exercise? What did they do? They took money in order to say bad things," Trump said at the press conference.
Previously, White Business firm press secretary Sarah Sanders said in December 2017 the accusations were substantially "litigated" during the campaign, with U.S. voters knowing of the accusations but choosing to vote for him anyway.
Only two of Trump's accusers have taken legal activeness confronting him. For one the action pertains to her sexual misconduct allegations against him, while the other's involves an an ongoing defamation lawsuit relating to Trump's calling his accusers liars and his declared disparagement of the accusers during the 2016 campaign.
Hither is a rundown of the individual accusations.
1. Jessica Leeds
Jessica Leeds alleged that Trump groped her on an airplane in the tardily 1970s, which the president has repeatedly denied.
Leeds went public in a New York Times commodity on Oct. 12, 2016 – discussing an declared decades-sometime interaction with Trump -- four days after the release of a 2005 "Admission Hollywood" recording in which he described women in vulgar terms. The Times article appeared three days later the second presidential debate, during which Trump denied e'er kissing or groping women without consent.
Leeds has since reiterated her accusations to ABC News and has repeated it publicly, including at a news briefing in December 2017 alongside two other accusers, calling on Congress to investigate the allegations against Trump.
Trump denied the allegations made by Leeds and by Rachel Crooks, another woman who spoke to The New York Times in the same 2016 article. He said "none of this ever took place" and threatened to sue the newspaper for reporting the story. No lawsuit has been filed.
The White House has as well pointed to an October 2016 New York Post article in which a British man with a questionable past, including making unsubstantiated claims nearly British politicians' behavior in the 1980s, challenged Leeds' allegations, equally an instance of how the claims confronting the president have been refuted by eyewitnesses. The human, Anthony Gilberthorpe, told the paper he had been on the same flight and saw Leeds existence "flirtatious." Her account, he told the Mail, was "wrong, incorrect, wrong."
The interview with Gilberthorpe had been arranged past the Trump campaign, the New York Mail reported.
Leeds' accusations were the only ones that Trump specifically referenced during his Sept. 27 press conference.
"I've had many false charges; I had a woman sitting in an aeroplane and I attacked her while people were coming onto the airplane. And I have a number-one bestseller out? I hateful information technology was full phony story. There are many of them," Trump said at the press conference.
Trump's first volume, "The Art of the Deal," was first published in 1987, which wouldn't have fabricated him a best-selling author at the time of the declared incident, which Leeds said took place in the late 1970s.
2. Kristin Anderson
Kristin Anderson told The Washington Mail service that Trump put his paw upwardly her skirt to her underwear in the early 1990s.
After the story'southward publication, ABC News spoke to a friend of Anderson, Brad Trent, who said he heard the account from Anderson the twelvemonth of the alleged incident. Trent told ABC News that Anderson had told him she was sitting next to Trump at the sometime China Club bar in New York where he slid his hand up her thigh and "grabbed her p----."
In a argument included in the Postal service story, then-Trump campaign spokeswoman Hope Hicks disputed Anderson'due south accusations. "Mr. Trump strongly denies this phony allegation past someone looking to get some gratuitous publicity," she said at the time. "It is totally ridiculous."
3. Jill Harth
Jill Harth said she had dinner with Trump and her and then-boyfriend, George Houraney, in 1992 when Trump allegedly tried to put his hands between her legs. She alleged he as well tried to buss her during a tour of his Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida a month subsequently when she and Houraney were there to celebrate solidifying a business contract.
Harth filed a lawsuit in 1997 alleging that Trump groped her and sexually harassed her, simply she withdrew the accommodate, she says, as a status of settling a separate fiscal dispute with him.
Harth'south lawsuit was reported in New York'south Daily News in 1997, and LawNewz published a post on its website in February 2016 revisiting the suit. Afterward its publication, LawNewz reported that Trump after chosen to deny the allegations. "It's ridiculous, I never touched this woman," LawNewz quoted Trump as saying.
In a New York Times article published a calendar month before the 2016 election, Harth acknowledged that, even after she had accused Trump of sexual misconduct, she briefly dated him in 1998.
The Trump entrada also released emails from 2015 in which Harth, who now owns a cosmetics company, solicited the candidate for opportunities to practise his hair and makeup. The Colina reported in Dec 2017 that Harth acknowledged sending the messages. That study came on the heels of some other story in The Colina, which reported that subsequently Harth publicly aired her allegations during the campaign, an unidentified donor came forrard to pay the residuum of a mortgage on Harth's New York apartment.
Harth, in a statement published on the website of The Hill, said the stories were an attempt to malign her and her attorney, Lisa Bloom, characterizing the political journalism site as "an apologist for Trump and a rag for right-wing hit jobs."
Harth told ABC News in November 2017 she stands by her allegations but doesn't desire to speak any more most Trump.
four. Cathy Heller
Cathy Heller outset spoke to The Guardian newspaper about an alleged incident she said happened at a Mother'due south Day brunch at Mar-a-Lago. She repeated her claims to ABC News and said she believes it happened in 1997.
She put her hand out to say hello to Trump and he grabbed her unexpectedly and started to osculation her on the lips, Heller told ABC News. She said she pulled away and he said, "Oh, come on." She said no but he grabbed her again and got near her lips, Heller told ABC News. She said this happened in front of her family.
The Guardian reported that Heller's family is in a dispute with Mar-a-Lago regarding their efforts to go refunds of dues, and that Cathy Heller was a Clinton supporter who donated the personal maximum of $two,700 to the Clinton entrada.
After her story appeared in The Guardian, the Trump campaign released a statement Oct. 15, 2016, saying that information technology was a "false accusation."
"There is no way that something like this would have happened in a public place on Female parent's 24-hour interval at Mr. Trump's resort. It would have been the talk of Palm Beach for the past two decades," the campaign's and so-senior communications adviser Jason Miller said.
In late-November 2017, after Trump began questioning the veracity of the 2005 Access Hollywood record and commented on male person public figures who had lost their jobs over sexual harassment allegations, Heller told People magazine that Trump "is a hypocrite."
"I don't recall he should be calling out anyone for sexual harassment or sexual set on, but I don't call back he tin can command himself," Heller told the magazine.
5. Temple Taggart McDowell
Temple Taggart was the 21-year-former Miss Utah when she participated in the Miss Usa contest in 1997. She said Trump, who owned the pageant at the time, kissed her "straight on the lips."
She starting time shared her story with The New York Times in May 2016, and Taggart, who now uses her married name of McDowell, reiterated her claims to ABC News through her lawyer, Gloria Allred. Trump denied the allegations to the Times, saying he is reluctant to kiss strangers on the lips.
"I don't even know who she is," Trump told NBC News in Oct 2016 in response to her allegations.
"She claims this took place in a public area. I never kissed her. I emphatically deny this ridiculous claim."
McDowell, through her attorney, reaffirmed her allegations to ABC News in November but declined to be interviewed.
6. Karena Virginia
Karena Virginia, a New York-area yoga instructor, said Trump approached her in 1998 outside the U.S. Open tennis tournament in New York while she was awaiting a car service, made unseemly comments about her appearance, grabbed her arm and groped her breast.
"He so walked up to me and reached his right arm and grabbed my right arm," she said at a news briefing in October 2016. "And then his paw touched the right inside of my chest."
Virginia, who was 27 at the time of the alleged incident, said she flinched, and Trump said, "Don't you know who I am?"
She has since reiterated her claims to ABC News through her lawyer, Gloria Allred. Trump has never released a specific statement about her claims.
seven. Bridget Sullivan
Bridget Sullivan, who was crowned Miss New Hampshire 2000, spoke publicly during the presidential campaign about how Trump came into the Miss Universe changing room while the contestants were naked.
"The fourth dimension that he walked through the dressing rooms was actually shocking. We were all naked," she told Buzzfeed in May 2016.
CNN released recordings of a 2005 interview that Trump gave to radio host Howard Stern in which he talked most going backstage at pageants when the contestants were naked.
"No men are anywhere, and I'm allowed to go in, considering I'm the possessor of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting information technology. ... 'Is everyone OK'? You lot know, they're standing in that location with no clothes. 'Is everybody OK?' And yous see these incredible looking women, and then I sort of get away with things like that," Trump said in the recording.
Reached in Nov 2017, Sullivan declined to be interviewed. "I've said what I've needed to say," she told ABC News.
Trump has never released a specific statement nearly her claims.
viii. Tasha Dixon
Former Miss Arizona Tasha Dixon says Trump walked into a dress rehearsal for a pageant in 2001 while the contestants were "half-naked' and the women were told to "fawn all over him," according to an interview Dixon gave to CBS Los Angeles station KCAL-Television in October of 2016.
Dixon, who says she was eighteen at the fourth dimension, said Trump came "strolling correct in" during a dress rehearsal for the Miss USA pageant in 2001. She said information technology was the contestants' introduction to Trump and that the women were naked or half-naked, in a "very physically vulnerable position."
Dixon said she decided to speak out afterward hearing an old audio recording of Trump'south talking to Howard Stern well-nigh going backstage at pageants while contestants were naked or getting dressed.
Trump's 2016 entrada team denied Dixon's accusation.
"These accusations have no merit and have already been disproven by many other individuals who were present," and so-entrada adviser Jason Miller said. "When yous run across questionable attacks like this magically put out there in the final month of a presidential entrada, y'all take to enquire yourself what the political motivations are and why the media is pushing information technology."
9. Mindy McGillivray
Mindy McGillivray told The Palm Beach Mail in October 2016 that Trump grabbed her rear end while she was working as a photographer'southward assistant at a 2003 event at Mar-a-Lago.
The photographer, Ken Davidoff, told the paper he vividly remembers McGillivray immediately pulling him aside to say, "Donald merely grabbed my a--."
Then Trump 2016 campaign spokeswoman Hicks told the paper that McGillivray'southward allegation "lacks whatever merit or veracity."
The photographer's brother, Daryl Davidoff, told ABC News and other news organizations that he was also at Mar-a-Lago on the night in question and doesn't believe McGillivray's story.
In October 2016, when reached by ABC News, Daryl Davidoff confirmed that McGillivray was working for Davidoff photography, their family unit business, the night she says she was groped by Trump, but he also said he never heard anything about Trump's groping anyone. He said he doesn't believe McGillivray's story and his brother, Ken, hasn't worked for the family photography business for years.
Daryl Davidoff likewise told The Palm Beach Post he believed McGillivray had made up the story equally a publicity stunt. "Nobody saw it happen and she just wanted to be in the limelight," he told the Post.
Ken Davidoff, in response to his brother'due south comments, told The Palm Beach Mail that he thought his blood brother was trying to discredit the story in order to prevent impairment to the family business.
In December 2017, McGillivray reiterated her allegations to NBC, calling for a congressional ideals investigation during an appearance on "Megyn Kelly Today." "I recall information technology's important that nosotros concord this man to the highest of standards, and if sixteen women take come forrard, so why hasn't anything been washed? Where is our investigation? I want justice."
Trump has never issued a specific argument about her allegation.
10. Rachel Crooks
Rachel Crooks, a secretary who worked in Trump's edifice, told The New York Times that when she first met Trump in 2005, he shook her hand, then kissed her on the cheeks and then on the lips, while outside an elevator at Trump Tower in New York City. Crooks says she immediately told her sister in Ohio nigh the encounter with Trump.
Before long afterward The New York Times story was published in Oct 2016, ABC News reached Crooks' sis Brianne Webb, who, equally reported in the Times commodity, told ABC News that she was the offset person her sister called after the declared incident. Crooks was very upset, Webb said, and worked upwards about just meeting Trump and having him allegedly osculation her directly on the mouth. Webb too said Crooks never went to the authorities.
The Trump campaign issued a lengthy statement denying the accusation that both Crooks and Leeds made in The New York Times commodity.
"This unabridged article is fiction, and for the New York Times to launch a completely imitation, coordinated character assassination against Mr. Trump on a topic like this is dangerous," and then-campaign senior communications advisor Jason Miller said in the statement at the time. "To reach dorsum decades in an effort to smear Mr. Trump trivializes sexual assail, and information technology sets a new low for where the media is willing to become in its efforts to determine this election."
Crooks ran and lost a 2018 bid for a seat in the Ohio state legislature, and during the entrada she continued to repeat her accusations confronting Trump. She was featured in The Washington Post, prompting Trump to respond on Twitter in February 2018.
"A woman I don't know and, to the all-time of my knowledge, never met, is on the Front PAGE of the Fake News Washington Post proverb I kissed her (for two minutes notwithstanding) in the vestibule of Trump Belfry 12 years ago. Never happened! Who would do this in a public space with live security cameras running. Another Fake Allegation. Why doesn't @washingtonpost report the story of the women taking coin to brand up stories most me? One had her home mortgage paid off. Only @FoxNews then reported...doesn't fit the Mainstream Media narrative," he wrote in two tweets.
ABC News reached out to the White House in February 2018 for whatever further comment on both Crooks' claims and the accusations levied by the rest of the women on this list. The White House did not respond.
11. Natasha Stoynoff
Natasha Stoynoff, a author for People magazine, said Trump inappropriately touched her in 2005 when she was at Mar-a-Lago for an interview timed to coincide with the starting time anniversary of his matrimony to Melania Trump.
Stoynoff wrote a offset-person account of the alleged incident that was published in People in October 2016, saying he forced her confronting a wall and tried to kiss her during a break in the interview. The alleged attempted set on, Stoynoff wrote, was interrupted when Trump'southward then-butler flare-up into the room.
The Trump campaign said the declared incident "never happened. There is no merit or veracity to this fabricated story." Trump himself tweeted, "Why didn't the author of this twelve year old article in People Mag mention the 'incident' in her story. Because it did non happen!"
In her account of the story, Stoynoff said she later ran into Melania Trump in New York and it was a friendly meet, though Melania Trump denied ever seeing her or having that interaction, and an attorney representing Melania Trump released a letter to People mag demanding a retraction and an apology. People magazine said it stood by the story and did not upshot a retraction.
Afterwards the publication of Stoynoff's business relationship, Trump's former butler Tony Senecal also publicly refuted her allegations. "Never happened," Senecal told ABC South Florida affiliate WPBF-TV.
A calendar week later, People published a follow-upwardly story quoting five colleagues and friends of Stoynoff who said the writer had told them almost the declared set on shortly later on she returned from the assignment; it likewise quote a friend who says she was with Stoynoff when she afterward ran into Melania Trump in New York Urban center.
ABC News left several messages seeking comment from Stoynoff merely received no response.
12. Jennifer Murphy
Jennifer White potato, a contestant on the fourth season of "The Amateur," the reality-TV show that Trump used to host, told British mag Grazia that Trump kissed her on the lips afterward a job interview in 2005. After she was fired from the reality Television prove, Spud said, Trump followed up with her and said he wanted to offer her a job but could just do so afterward the finale had concluded. Potato told Grazia the alleged kissing incident took identify during one of those mail-show interviews.
"He walked me to the elevator, and I said goodbye. I was thinking, 'Oh, he's going to hug me,' only when he pulled my face in and gave me a smooch. I was like, 'Oh kay.' I didn't know how to deed. I was but a little taken aback and probably turned ruby. And I and then I get into the lift and idea, 'Huh, Donald Trump merely kissed me on the lips,"' she told the magazine.
The Grazia article was published weeks earlier the election, and at the fourth dimension, Murphy said, she still planned to vote for Trump.
"I don't want him to e'er feel I'thousand throwing him nether the bus, because I'm non. ... I was surprised, only then information technology didn't really carp me because I didn't feel he was being degrading, or he was being quack to Melania," Tater told Grazia.
Trump has non released any specific argument nearly her claims.
13. Jessica Drake
Adult film star Jessica Drake said Trump kissed her and two other women without their consent ten years agone.
During an October. 22, 2016, news conference aslope her chaser Gloria Allred, the accuser provided a picture of her with Trump.
The Trump campaign called her allegations "totally imitation and ridiculous" and straight addressed the motion-picture show in a statement, saying, "The picture is one of thousands taken out of respect for people asking to have their flick taken with Mr. Trump."
Drake said she met Trump at a 2006 golf tournament in Lake Tahoe and walked the course with him during the competition. She then was invited up to his hotel suite and brought two other women with her because "I didn't feel correct going lone," Drake said during the news conference.
"When we entered the room, he grabbed each of us tightly in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking permission," Drake said.
She went on to say that later on she and the other women left, she received a phone call from Trump request her to come up back and take dinner with him.
"Donald and then asked me, 'What practise y'all want? How much?'" Drake said.
Allred and Drake declined to provide names of people they said could support the story. Allred told ABC News in November 2017 that Drake does not want to speak with any media.
14. Ninni Laaksonen
In 2006, Ninni Laaksonen competed in Miss Universe equally Miss Finland. She told Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat that Trump squeezed her rear stop after posing for a photo before an appearance on "The David Letterman Show."
"Trump stood correct next to me and of a sudden he squeezed my butt. He really grabbed my butt," she told Ilta-Sanomat, according to a translation obtained by The Guardian.
ABC News contacted Laaksonen for annotate in December 2017. She replied, "I have never commented on this, and I won't. I wish that you respect my volition to alive a normal life without interference."
Trump has never released a specific statement virtually her claims.
15. Summer Zervos
During the presidential entrada, Zervos, who was a competitor on the fifth season of "The Apprentice," came forward to criminate that Trump driveling his part equally a potential employer, kissing her twice during a meeting at Trump Tower in New York, and later groping and kissing her in a California hotel room. Zervos said she did not report the alleged incidents to the authorities at the time.
"He grabbed my shoulder and began kissing me once more aggressively and placed his mitt on my breast," Zervos said at an October 2016 news briefing.
Zervos has since filed a lawsuit against Trump for alleged defamation after he called her and the other women accusing him liars. The suit was filed in state court in New York, three days before Trump's inauguration.
In the lawsuit, Zervos' attorney wrote that while Trump said Zervos was lying, "it was Donald Trump who was lying when he falsely denied his predatory misconduct with Summer Zervos, and derided her for perpetrating a 'hoax' and making upwards a 'phony' story to get attention."
In March 2019, an appellate court in New York rejected Trump's legal team's statement that a sitting president cannot be sued .
His attorney Marc Kasowitz responded with a statement saying that Trump would be appealing to the country's highest court.
xvi. Cassandra Searles
In June 2016, erstwhile Miss Washington Cassandra Searles shared a post on Facebook that is no longer available publicly.
The post had a film of the group of Miss Universe contestants from 2013 with Trump in the center. In the explanation of the photograph, which was screen-grabbed past Yahoo, she wrote that "this one guy treated us like cattle" and "I forgot to mention that guy volition be running to become the next President of U.s.."
Rolling Stone reported that Searle updated her original post, adding a comment to the thread.
"He probably doesn't desire me telling the story virtually that fourth dimension he continually grabbed my donkey and invited me to his hotel room," Searle wrote, according to Rolling Stone.
ABC News has not been able to reach Searles, and Trump has not released a specific statement about her claims.
17. E. Jean Carroll
More two years into Trump's presidency, another accuser came frontward with an accusation of an alleged decades-erstwhile incident.
In a New York magazine commodity posted June 21, 2019, advice columnist Eastward. Jean Carroll accused Trump of sexually assaulting her in a Bergdorf Goodman dressing room 23 years ago. The commodity featured an extract from Carroll'southward volume "What Exercise We Need Men For," which was to exist released soon subsequently the article was published.
In response to Carroll's allegations, Trump issued a argument hours after the article posted, vehemently denying her claims, and said that he never fifty-fifty met Carroll. "She is trying to sell a new book—that should indicate her motivation. It should be sold in the fiction department. Shame on those who make upward fake stories of assault to try to get publicity for themselves, or sell a book, or deport out a political calendar."
New York Magazine, in the online article, included a photo provided by Carroll which shows Carroll, Donald Trump and his then-wife Ivana, and Carroll'south then hubby, television news anchor John Johnson, attending an NBC party around 1987.
In the book, Carroll wrote that she ran into Trump at the revolving door archway of the loftier end department store'south entrance old during the autumn of 1995 or leap of 1996. Carroll, who is at present 76, claims he said to her, "Hey, you're that Communication Lady" and then asked her communication on buying a present for "a daughter." She writes the two ended upward in the lingerie department, where Carroll claims he asked her to try on a run across-through bodysuit. Within the dressing room, Carroll alleges that Trump lunged at her, pushed her confronting the wall, placed his mouth on her lips, and reached under her coatdress and pulled downward her tights. In Carroll's own words, she alleges, "The side by side moment, even so wearing correct business attire, shirt, tie, suit jacket, overcoat, he opens the overcoat, unzips his pants, and, forcing his fingers around my private area, so thrusts his penis halfway- or completely, I'chiliad not certain- inside me. It turns into a jumbo struggle."
Carroll said she never reported the incident to the police, but that she confided in two friends, contemporaneously.
ABC News reached both of Carroll'southward friends who asked that their names not be used just corroborated that what she described in her book is what she told them at the time of the alleged incident.
On June 23, 2019, Trump reiterated his denials during an interview with The Hill, saying that Carroll was "totally lying" and going on to say that "she'due south not my type" and "it never happened."
18. Amy Dorris
With less than vii weeks to go until the 2020 election, another former model came out with a sexual assault allegation confronting the president.
Amy Dorris, in an exclusive interview with The Guardian, claimed that at the 1997 U.Due south. Open in New York Trump groped her body and forced his tongue into her mouth outside of a bath.
Dorris says she watched the matches from Trump's private box with her and so-fellow, Jason Binn, who was close with the existent estate mogul. At one indicate during the event, she went to the bathroom that was located in the box merely behind a wall -- and said Trump was waiting outside the bathroom when she walked out.
"He just shoved his tongue down my throat and I was pushing him off. So that'due south when his grip became tighter and his hands were very gropey and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything," she told The Guardian.
"It felt like an octopus was hugging onto me. You just picture those suction cups on octopus. They're stuck on you, and you're trapped. That's how I felt. I felt trapped," she added.
According to The Guardian, Dorris was able to produce the U.South. Open up ticket and several photos showing her with Trump over several days in New York. The Guardian reported that she allegedly had told people about this contemporaneously, but co-ordinate to the outlet, Trump's lawyers say Binn told them Dorris has not told him that anything inappropriate had happened with Trump or that she felt uncomfortable effectually him.
Trump was married to Marla Maples at the fourth dimension of the declared incident. Dorris was 24.
Jenna Ellis, legal advisor to the Trump entrada, told ABC News that "the allegations are totally false."
"This is just another pathetic attempt to attack President Trump right before the election," Ellis said in a statement.
The president's lawyers as well pointed out that Dorris kept spending time with Trump, fifty-fifty after the alleged incident. Dorris now says it'southward considering she was a guest of her swain's in New York and had "no coin" and "nowhere to go."
ABC News' James Hill, Cindy Smith, Kaitlyn Folmer and Libby Cathey contributed to this report.
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