Woman suing Trump over alleged teen rape drops suit, again by Josh Gerstein Politico 11/04/2016 07:03 PM EDT. Updated: 11/04/2016 10:04 PM EDT
A woman who accused Donald Trump of raping her two decades ago when she was a 13-year-old aspiring teen model has again dropped a federal lawsuit over the alleged assaults.
The accuser, identified in the lawsuit by the pseudonym “Jane Doe,” was expected to appear at a news conference in Los Angeles Wednesday, but that appearance was abruptly canceled.
The lawyer who organized the event, Lisa Bloom, said Trump’s accuser had received threats and was too frightened to show up.
In the most recent suit, Trump’s accuser asserted that while she was exploring a modeling career in 1994, she attended a series of parties at the Manhattan home of prominent investor Jeffrey Epstein. She alleges that during those parties the real estate mogul tied her to a bed and raped her. She also claimed Epstein raped her during that series of gatherings.
The accuser’s lead attorney, Thomas Meagher of New Jersey, did not immediately respond to requests for comment. He filed a one-page notice dismissing the case Friday evening in federal court in Manhattan. No explanation was given for the action.
Bloom did not immediately respond to requests for comment Friday.
Through his attorney, Trump had flatly denied the woman’s allegations.
“It is categorically untrue. It is completely frivolous. It is baseless. It is irresponsible,” Trump attorney Alan Garten told POLITICO in September. “I won’t even discuss the merits because it gives it credibility that it doesn’t deserve.”
“I don’t think I ever had a case where I even suspected a woman was making a false accusation,” said former Suffolk County sheriff and prosecutor Andrea Cabral.
According to Suffolk County District Attorney John P. Pappas, the problem with sexual assaults is underreporting, “because victims fear they won’t be believed. The overwhelming majority of such allegations are grounded in truth.”
Middlesex County District Attorney Marian Ryan said, “There may be a variety of legal reasons our office cannot proceed with prosecution; that does not mean the allegation is false.”
False accusations do in fact happen, but again, rarely. Various studies estimate between 2 percent and 10 percent nationwide.
But since only rapes reported to police can be deemed false, some analysts put the number much lower and say that a “false” accusation may actually be a true one recanted because a survivor doesn’t want a trial.
Doe named Trump and Epstein as defendants in the suits and says they knew she was well under 17 — the age of consent. “I understood that both Mr. Trump and Mr. Epstein knew that I was 13 years old,” she wrote.
Two earlier suits were filed over the same alleged events.
The first suit over the alleged rapes was filed in federal court in Riverside, California, in April by someone acting without an attorney and using the name “Katie Johnson.” That suit named both Trump and Epstein as defendants, alleging that the two men held Johnson as a “sex slave” and repeatedly forced her to engage in sexual acts against her will.
Subsequent news reports raised doubts about who filed the suit. Johnson claimed she had just $300 in assets and that she was living at a home in Twentynine Palms, California, but Radar Online reported neighbors said the home had been foreclosed upon and vacant since its owner died last year.
U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee dismissed that case in May, ruling that Johnson’s complaint didn’t raise valid claims under federal law. Gee, an appointee of President Barack Obama, noted that the suit cited a criminal statute that doesn’t give rise to civil damages and that the civil statute Johnson cited only applies to actions based on “race-based or class-based animus.”
Another version of the suit was filed in federal court in June, but withdrawn in September after apparently never being served on the defendants.
The case was refiled later that month.
The second and third iterations of the complaint accused Trump of only a single act of rape, but said he had “sexual contact” with the accuser on three other occasions. A declaration from an anonymous witness attached to the later suits continued to accuse Trump of four acts of rape or sexual assault.
A lawyer for Epstein declined to the comment on the lawsuits.
About a decade ago, Epstein came under investigation by local and federal authorities near his Palm Beach, Florida, home over allegations that he solicited underage girls to have sex with him at that residence and another on an island he owned in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Epstein pleaded guilty in June 2008 to two state felony charges relating to prostitution and was sentenced to 18 months in jail. He served only 13 months before being released but was required to register as a sex offender.
Her Cheekbones (High) Or Her Name (Trump)? by Jennifer Steinhauer New York Times Aug. 17, 1997
SHE seems to have this modeling thing down. There are the sexy outfits (when you show up for an interview wearing a floor-length see-through white dress, you tend to turn heads). There is the denial that she exercises and the chowing down, eating a nice-sized lunch in front of a reporter, proving that she is not a wacky dieter.
And there are the banalities, stated in studied, contraction-free sentences. ''I live for the moment,'' said Ivanka Trump, the daughter of, well, you know. ''I do not fear the future because I think every experience makes you stronger. I am the kind of person who has no regrets.''
One should hope not. Miss Trump is 15 years old.
She has spent her life hiding from the cameras that haunted Donald and Ivana Trump through messy divorces, high-flying deals and scandal-ettes, but now she is seeking her own limelight with a modeling career that has recently included a walk down a Paris runway, a Seventeen magazine cover and an advertising campaign for Tommy Hilfiger.
And on Wednesday, Miss Trump -- heretofore a fashion-world curiosity -- will make her live television debut before many millions as co-host of the Miss Teen USA pageant, a kind of national coming-out for the latest Trump to cross over into popular culture. The two-hour Miss Teen USA broadcast on CBS has traditionally won high ratings, a reflection of Americans' fascination with the schmaltzy world of beauty pageants.
To hear Miss Trump tell it, her modeling career is built on the strength of her cheekbones alone. She had always wanted to be a model, she said, and when she turned 15, she ''came of age'' and simply walked into Elite Modeling, one of the most prestigious agencies in the world, showed her 5-foot-10-inch form and made a deal. Well, not quite.
It seems that Monica Pillard, the president of Elite, had been eyeing Ivanka since she spotted her on her father's lap four years ago, when Mr. Trump was a judge of a new-talent contest for the agency.
Mr. Trump and Elite have a longstanding, informal relationship. Ms. Pillard served as a judge in the Miss Universe pageant, which is jointly owned by Mr. Trump and CBS, as is the Miss Teen USA pageant. John Casablancas, Elite's founder, is a friend of Mr. Trump's, and Elite has held events at Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Executives from other modeling agencies raised an eyebrow over the notion that Miss Trump -- who is sweet-tempered, well spoken but still chubby in the cheeks with baby fat and a long way from a diva in terms of comportment -- would be on catwalks and magazine covers if not for her famous last name.
''If she walked into my agency, I would not sign her as a model,'' said Michael Flutie, the owner of Company Management. ''I like girls to be exceptionally editorial, which is more of an ability than a look. I don't think she has that edge.''
He added: ''If John F. Kennedy Jr. did a Calvin Klein show next season, it would get tremendous attention, but that doesn't make him a model, and the same thing is true with Miss Trump.''
Miss Trump is in Elite's celebrity division, sharing the roster with Jenny McCarthy, Drew Barrymore and Ashley Judd, who draw attention to an agency but are not really part of the supermodel fast track.
Even so, Miss Trump has already attracted would-be boyfriends of a type that are part and parcel of the model's life. ''She has these rockers calling her up and asking for dates,'' Mr. Trump said. ''Top names. Won't tell you who. And there is zero chance they are going to be dating her. That's taken care of.''
Audrey Roatta, a senior assistant to Ms. Pillard at Elite, insisted that Miss Trump would have been chosen as a model even without her name. ''She would be a model, and she would be with Elite,'' Ms. Roatta said. ''She understands that of course her name helped in the beginning to get her foot in the door. She's not stupid. But she also knows that she will be treated like any other model when it comes to clients.''
As for Miss Trump, she said over a plate of tomatoes and mozzarella at the self-service cafe at Trump Tower last week: ''Modeling is what people like; it is not family oriented. People like me for me, not for who my parents are. It is about outer beauty.''
She has a girl-next-door quality, and when she is not being coached into sound bites by her handlers, she reveals how charming and difficult the age 15 can be. She chews on a thumbnail. She touches her blond mane of hair self-consciously. She is extremely polite and seems considerate -- she takes her own empty plate to the trash, without expecting people to wait on her.
Fashion and the runway world have been a shared Trump family interest for many years. Miss Trump's mother, Ivana Trump, took her to Todd Oldham and Ungaro shows when she was as young as 8. Mr. Trump also is fond of fashion shows and took her along to Calvin Klein and Versace shows when she was a child.
But both parents and Miss Trump said that they have never pushed her to model, and Mrs. Trump even said she discouraged it.
''I really do prefer mathematics over modeling at age 15,'' Mrs. Trump said in a telephone interview from a houseboat on the Cote d'Azure last week. ''She is only allowed to do it on weekends and holidays and absolutely not during the school year.'' Miss Trump, who goes to a private boarding school in Connecticut (she wouldn't name it), said she would ultimately like to attend business school.
Mrs. Trump is not against the modeling profession, having dabbled in it herself. ''Modeling is better than going to nightclubs or watching television,'' she said. ''I never push my children in anything.''
Mr. Trump is equally circumspect. ''This is an interesting case,'' he said over his speaker phone, which was not on a boat but rather in his office. ''I am only modestly in favor of this because I understand that that life is a very fast life, and at that age it is always a risky proposition.''
Miss Trump said she appreciates her parents' support, but she seems not to make the connection between the family's fame and her career.
Many designers like celebrities as well as models to walk their shows, because it creates a media buzz.
''In a show, you can use anybody in the world with a name,'' said Jerome Bonnouvrier, the president of DNA Model Manangement. ''Lady Di could be in a fashion show, because they are a business and social event, and they like people to recognize people.''
Miss Trump is certainly not the first to capitalize on a name. Isabella Rossellini broke into the business largely because her parents were Ingrid Bergman and Roberto Rossellini, although it was her own beauty that ultimately landed her in many cosmetics advertisements.
Both Mr. Bonnouvrier and Mr. Flutie of Company Management expressed concern that Miss Trump's celebrity may have pushed her into a world that she may not be ready for. ''I am often approached by celebrities on behalf of their daughters,'' Mr. Flutie said. ''And I do not encourage girls under 17 to pursue a professional career in modeling.''
Miss Trump's girl-next-door quality is why Seventeen magazine booked her for its May cover. ''She is a teen-ager, she has a fresh look and readers can relate to her,'' said Donna Rubinstein, the model editor of Seventeen. ''She may look like someone a reader knows.''
The cover portrays Miss Trump as a fresh-scrubbed youth with flowing hair. Although her mouth is pursed in a pout, the image was far more innocent-looking than the way she appeared in the Thierry Mugler couture show in Paris last month. Dressed in a batlike black dress with a gold corset, she seemed like a nervous little girl dressed in her mother's craziest outfit.
Maureen Reidy, the president of the Miss Teen USA pageant, said Miss Trump represented an ideal role model as a host of the event. ''In my mind there is no one more perfect for this,'' she said. ''She is 4.0 student, does a lot of philanthropic activity and is on her way to supermodel stardom.''
Miss Trump seems excited about the pageant, because of the time she will be spending around other girls her age with the same soaring ambitions and oddly mature locution. ''I'm a teen-ager in the fashion industry, and I have made friends with the girls in the pageant,'' she said. ''It has been a legitimate bonding experience.''
A correction was made on Aug. 24, 1997: An article in the Styles pages last Sunday about Ivanka Trump, a model who is the daughter of Donald J. Trump and Ivana Trump, misstated the given name of the president of the Elite Model Management Corporation, Misscq Trump's agency. She is Monique Pillard, not Monica. The article also included an erroneous reference from the agency to its events. They have never been held at the Trump Tower. When we learn of a mistake, we acknowledge it with a correction. If you spot an error, please let us know at nytnews@nytimes.com.Learn more
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Trump’s Past RESURFACES and He CAN’T STOP IT This Time MeidasTouch Jan 14, 2024
MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas continues his investigative series on Donald Trump’s disturbing past making critical connections.
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Miss North Carolina 2006, Samantha Holvey tell her Story with Donald Trump
[Don Lemon] is it normal to see men in dressing rooms at pageants and the and the owner of a pageant
[Samantha Holvey, 2006 Miss N. Carolina] no no the um the director of the North Carolina South Carolina Louisiana and Alabama pageants it's very much a family atmosphere um she doesn't even go backstage when the girls are getting ready only the female chaperones are allowed backstage in the dressing rooms um with the girls I've never had an experience where there were men or D dors or anything like that walking back in the dressing rooms yeah
[Don Lemon] as I understand there uh you have an experience of something that happened the night before the pageant
[Samantha Holvey, 2006 Miss N. Carolina] well not the night before the pageant but um when we were in New York City on the media tour they were doing a book launch at Trump Towers for the universal Beauty um book and they had a bunch of former Miss usas and Miss universes and all 51 of us and we did the Red Carpet and that was tons of fun and then they lined us all up and Trump went down the line and he shook your hand and um you know looked you over looked you up and down head to toe um I was just checking everybody out
[Don Lemon] and you thought; you felt?
[Samantha Holvey, 2006 Miss N. Carolina] I felt uh very dirty um it was very creepy it's kind of like when you're at a bar and a creepy guy is checking you out that's that was the experience for me
[Ben Meiselas] That was Samantha Holvey, 2006 Miss North Carolina. I'm Ben Meiselas from the MeidasTouch Network. We've been doing a deep dive into Donald Trump's background and trying to connect dots in a cohesive way where there's all this disparate information that we're tying it together here so I've seen a lot of comments and I want to go and discuss Donald Trump's past right now using these beauty pageants that he owned as a way to EXP exploit women and young girls the next video I want to share with you is from Tasha Dixon who competed as Miss Arizona in 2001 here's what she describes that Donald Trump would do to the uh women who were participating in this competition play this clip
[Tasha Dixon] he just came strolling right in there was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything um some girls were topless other girls were naked as Miss Arizona 2001 Tasha Dixon competed in the missusa pageant Donald Trump owned the contest along with Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA for 19 years our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half naked changing into our bikinis to have the owner come walting in when we're naked or half naked in a very physically vulnerable position and then to have the pressure of the uh you know the the people that work for him telling telling us to go Fawn all Fawn all over him go walk up to him him talk to him and Dixon has strong opinions about what she thinks were Trump's motivations I'm telling you Donald Trump owned the pageant for the reason to utilize his power to get you know around beautiful women Dixon who lives in West Hollywood was 18 at the time who do you complain to he owns the pageant so there's no one to complain to everyone there works for him the year she competed the theme was empowering women and after hearing recent audio of trump talking about women she decided to speak out I miss Arizona so I Veer more on the conservative side um but I just like to choose what's right Dixon tells me she hadn't heard the stern audio before we did reach out to several 2001 contestants and those that responded declined to be interviewed we did however receive a statement from former Miss California 2009 Carrie praon bowler she said to us in a statement to paint Mr Trump as someone who would purposely walk into a women women's dressing room and ask women to come and press him is the most disgusting accusation so far Mr Trump has empowered me as a woman has given me career opportunities and defended me during my reign as Miss California USA in The Newsroom Serene Branson kcal9 news you may recall this from the 2016 campaign Alicia machados she was 1997 this is the 1997 interview she was the 1996 Miss Universe and uh during this live interview on CBS Donald Trump started mocking her weight she had a very powerful response to him during this live interview play this clip
For the first time in the history of the pageant viewers can actually participate there'll be a a question up and the viewers can actually call in and vote uh let's let's bring up the question it says should a pageant title holder be required to maintain her physical appearance during her reign why do you think this is an important question the viewers would care about well it's something that really has come up over the last year and Alicia has done an incredible job she really has turned out to be one of the great miss universes I will say and she had a little problem during the Middle where she gained a little weight I don't think so yeah she's probably right I don't think so okay and so let's let's talk about that debate because you know it's interesting uh the viewers are going to make a a decision today and they're going to vote in uh one way or the other Alicia do you think that that should matter because after all you were voted in as being the most beautiful woman in the world I am the most beautiful woman in the world I certainly don't 20b or no pounds I am the most beautiful woman in the world do you not think that it's important to maintain a certain look during that year yes of course but I think uh all woman in the world have a problem with the weight and I I think maybe I had some problem with this but I'm I'm fine now and I think uh 15 pound is nothing with 20 years old and I think the most important for the next Miss Universe and then is no more dinners no more lunch no more breakfast and no more when you travel diplomatic dinners and parties I think what Donald's talking about and I think most people agree that there is a look to miss and more time for go to the gym it's very important because when you have when you are miss univers you don't have time for nothing right Donald how do you think that this this this Miss Universe will be different from the others well I don't know that it's going to be different we have many beautiful women and it's actually incredible I was over there today and the women are magnificent and so I don't think it's going to be different it's going to be more of the same and it's going to be terrific and then you may recall the Fallout from this Hillary Clinton brought this up in 2016 because one of the things that she was warning about is that Donald Trump's Behavior against women was not just abhorent and disgusting and criminal but that it would also from a policy standpoint have an impact as well Hillary Clinton was saying for example Donald Trump based on the way he treats women wouldn't hesitate to take away women's Reproductive Rights but here's a series right here of just a a montage if you will a super cut of what went down in 2016 play this clip
this Venezuela you are the new Miss Universe and some people when they have pressure don't eat and some people when they have pressure eat too much like me but like Alicia and she had a little problem during the Middle where she gained a little weight I think so yeah she's probably right I don't think so okay Donald Trump called you Miss Piggy yes Miss Piggy Miss housekeeping how did that make you feel so sad congratulations your citizens of the United States Donald she has a name where did you find her name is ala Machado and she has become a US citizen and you can bet she's going to vote this November okay good and then when Donald Trump made statements and by comparison to what Donald Trump's saying right now these statements almost seem tame based on how hateful his rhetoric is now and these statements were so hateful When Donald Trump made statements saying that Mexican immigrants crossing the border are killers rapists and Drug Runners there was a boycott against uh the beauty pageants and then Donald Trump ultimately said that he was going to skip the missusa pageant and here's how some of the women who were running the pageant uh responded and celebrated that Trump wasn't going to be there play this clip uh we saw that Donald Trump announced on Twitter he would not be here for The Pageant tonight how does I knew it was be and I'm sorry something interrupted me I'm just I'm wondering if that changes anything um as far as the pageant goes tonight or as far as the the brand of The Pageant tonight right you know the as I said two or three weeks ago this pageant is an opportunity to about be about the women and the city and that's what we're focusing on and uh uh you know what it's it's it's good for us that we're just focusing full steam ahead it hasn't really changed because that's all we've been doing for the last few days and and I know that there's a big campaign going on out out west and we're focusing here uh in Louisiana and then there's of course Donald Trump's own word regarding Miss Teen USA and how Donald Trump said that and he confirmed that he would show up when the girls when the teenage girls were naked and he would inspect their bodies while they were naked this is Donald Trump in his own words on Howard Stern bragging about it play this clip
well you could also say as the owner of the pageant it's your obligation to do that so so you have done that now tell me well I'll tell you the funniest is that I'll go backstage before show yes and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else and you know no men are anywhere and I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it you know I'm inspecting I want to make sure that everything is good the dress is everyone okay you know they standing there with no is everybody okay and you see these incredible looking women and so I sort of get away with things like here's an article from the Independent Donald Trump boasted about meeting semi- naked teenagers and beauty pageants Mr Trump said on Howard Stern's radio show that you just heard in 200 five that he could get away with walking into the dressing room to inspect beautiful women Donald Trump used to stroll right into the dressing room of beauty pageants while the contestants some of whom were teenagers were naked or half-dressed a former model has claimed Tasha Dixon was 18 when she competed in the missusa pageant winning the State Crown our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half naked changing into our bikinis Miss Dixon told CBS he just came strolling right in there was no second to put robe on or any sort of clothing or anything some girls were topless other girls were naked she added that people who worked for Mr Trump pressured the women to fawn over him go walk up to him talk to him get his attention while still not fully dressed Miss Dixon added the situation made them feel awkward and physically vulnerable four women who competed in the 1997 Miss Teen USA beauty pageant also said the Republican used to walk in some of the girls were as young as 15 so there there's another uh data point on that right here um this is Donald Trump on The Wendy Williams Show when he was asked what he has in common with Ivanka and what Ivanka has in common with him Donald Trump said the following play this clip we want to know a little bit more about you guys so we play this game here it's called fave five I'll ask the question Ivanka you answer first and then Dad you answer also okay Ivanka what's the favorite thing you have in common with your father either real estate or golf Donald with your daughter well I was going to say sex but I can't relate that here's a photograph by the way of Donald Trump uh Ivanka when she was a little girl Eric when he was just a boy and Jeffrey abstein and John Casablancas who I did another story on here um here is uh a video right here of Donald Trump this one uh this is his deposition that was taken in the eege Carol Case where he's asked about a video where he was on the hot mic saying that uh because he's rich and famous he grabs women by their genitals and sexually abuses them um and Donald Trump responded that either unfortunately or fortunately this is what rich men are able to do play this clip and you say and again this has become very famous in this video I just start kissing them it's like a m maget just kiss I don't even wait and when you're a star they let you do it you can do anything grab them by the [ __ ] you can do anything that's what you said correct well historically that's true with stars it's true with stars that that they can grab women by the [ __ ] well that's what it's if you look over the last million years I guess that's been largely true not always but largely true unfortunately or fortunately and you consider yourself uh to be a star I think you can say that yeah and this is from a federal court order that was just issued this past week in New York federal court by judge Lewis Kaplan who explained that the jury in the last eing Carol trial found by a preponderance of the evidence that Mr Trump sexually abused Miss Carol and injured her in doing so his conduct was willfully negligent or reckless in doing so or he acted with a conscious disregard for Miss Carol rights and Miss Carol was entitled to compensatory and punitive damages for sexual abuse of about $2 million consequently the fact that Mr Trump sexually abused indeed raped Miss Carol has been conclusively established and is binding in this case that's from a federal judge um and here is Donald Trump at the young Republicans Club about a month ago uh in New York at a very fancy restaurant called chianis and Donald Trump makes up the story that a military General told him that the most corageous thing this military General has ever heard was When Donald Trump mocked the woman he sexually abuses that's what Donald Trump was telling to the young Republicans here play this clip but I went onto that stage just a few days later and a general who's a fantastic general actually said to me sir I've been on the battlefield men have gone down on my left and on my right I stood on Hills where soldiers were killed but I believe the bravest thing I've ever seen was the night you went onto that stage with Hillary Clinton after what happened and then that woman asked you the first question about it and I said locker room talk it's locker room talk what the hell what are you talk locker room that was not a great going going back to the statement that you heard earlier in this video from Hillary Clinton Donald Trump's conduct not just abhorent disgusting criminal in nature um but also the real world ramifications of it as well to his victims of course who he has created unimaginable suffering to this country and as Hillary Clinton said here's what he's going to do play this clip of Donald Trump bragging about what he did and what he calls is a miracle play this clip because for 54 years they were trying to get roie way terminated and I did it and I'm proud to have done it they wanted to get it back right you wouldn't be have that there would be no question nobody else was going to get that done but me and we did it and we did something that was a miracle thank you for watching this video let me know what you think in the comments
[x] U.S. financier Jeffrey Epstein appears in a photograph taken for the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services' sex offender registry March 28, 2017 and obtained by Reuters July 10, 2019. New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services/Handout via REUTERS./File Photo Purchase Licensing Rights,
NEW YORK, Feb 14 (Reuters) - A dozen victims of Jeffrey Epstein filed a lawsuit on Wednesday accusing the FBI of covering up its failure to investigate the late financier, enabling this sex trafficking to continue for more than 20 years. The victims, using Jane Doe pseudonyms, said the FBI received credible tips as early as 1996 that Epstein trafficked young women and girls, yet failed to interview victims or share what it knew with federal and local law enforcement.
Victims said the FBI finally began a probe in 2006, but ended it two years later after Epstein pleaded guilty to a Florida prostitution charge, and kept ignoring tips until his July 2019 arrest. Epstein committed suicide a month later.
"As a direct and proximate cause of the FBI's negligence, plaintiffs would not have been continued to be sex trafficked, abused, raped, tortured and threatened," the complaint said.
"Jane Does 1-12 bring this lawsuit to get to the bottom -- once and for all -- of the FBI's role in Epstein's criminal sex trafficking ring," it added.
The U.S. Department of Justice did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Wednesday's complaint filed in federal court in Manhattan seeks damages from the U.S. government, the only defendant.
It cited a Dec. 5, 2023, Senate Judiciary Committee hearing where FBI Director Christopher Wray was asked why the FBI didn't do more. He promised to "get with my team and figure out if there is more information we can provide."
The number of Epstein's victims is believed to be well over 100.
Victims previously reached approximately $500 million of settlements, before deducting legal fees and costs, with a program funded by Epstein's estate and with two of Epstein's banks, JPMorgan Chase (JPM.N), and Deutsche Bank (DBKGn.DE).
It is unclear whether the 12 plaintiffs received compensation from those settlements. Their lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The case is Doe 1 et al v United States, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, No. 24-01071.
Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; editing by Jonathan Oatis
Donald Trump Says He Imagines Teen Lindsay Lohan Would Be 'Great in Bed': "Disturbing" doesn’t even begin to cover this. by Brittney McNamara Teen Vogue October 14, 2016
According to a recording of a 2004 Howard Stern interview, Donald Trump fantasized about sex with then 18-year-old Lindsay Lohan, saying "deeply troubled" women are the best in bed.
CNN reports Donald and Howard talked about Lindsay Lohan during an interview, calling her "hot." When Howard asked Donald if he could imagine sex with Lindsay, Donald said yes, adding that she's likely "great in bed" because she's "deeply troubled." The two also discussed Lohan's appearance in detail, picking her apart as a sexual object, not a woman.
The conversation between the two starts with Donald asking Howard what he thinks about Lindsay. The two talk about her appearance, and then this happened, according to CNN:
"Can you imagine the sex with this troubled teen?" Howard said.
"Yeah, you're probably right," Donald said. "She's probably deeply troubled and therefore great in bed. How come the deeply troubled women, you know, deeply, deeply troubled, they're always the best in bed?"
"Because they're looking for love, they're looking for positive affirmation, they're looking for a father figure who will love them and tell them they're wonderful and they'll never be enough," Howard said. "No matter many times you tell them they're beautiful, no matter how many times you tell them you love them they want to suck it up more. They would drain you like a vampire until your head caved in if they could get more love."
"Well I have a friend Howard who's actually like a great playboy, I mean, I don't say this about men, this guy does very well," said Donald. "He runs silent, runs deep as they say, like a submarine. He will only look for a crazy women. He says, 'Donald, Donald, please, please, I only want the crazy women.'"
"They're desperate," Howard said.
"What is this guy all about," said Donald. "But for some reason, what I said is true. It's just unbelievable. You don't want to be with them for long term, but for the short term there's nothing like it."
The discussion of this recording comes just after a tape of Donald saying his fame gives him the right to sexually assault women leaked, and numerous women came forward accusing Donald of assault. But, this interview doesn't need these other tapes and allegations to be horrifying. It's disgusting on its own.
First, Lindsay was a teenager at the time of this discussion. She was 18, so technically a legal adult, but to have two grown men talking about your mental health and sexuality on the radio is a huge invasion of privacy and decency. But worse than that, Donald's comment about "deeply troubled" women being good in bed because they crave attention is demeaning, scary, and predatory. It plays into stereotypes of emotionally fragile women, and shows that Donald has no problem evaluating women as exploitable sex objects.
Donald has shown over and over that he has no respect for women. Though he claims no one respects women more than he does, he has called women pigs, he has bragged about sexually assaulting them, he has disrespected his daughter as a sex object, he has allegedly assaulted women, and he has gone on record saying he thinks "deeply troubled" women are best in bed.
She's your daughter. Not your date. [Guess the state (Florida)]
Presidents set the tone for a nation. Michelle Obama said, “a measure of any society is how it treats its women and girls."
Now more than ever, it's important to make sure you are registered to vote. And once you're register, GO VOTE!
Trump CAUGHT Campaigning in Epstein’s FORMER JET MeidasTouch Aug 12, 2024 The MeidasTouch Podcast MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump getting busted for using the jet of his deceased friend.
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[Ben Meiselas] can we talk for a second about the fact that Donald Trump is flying around right now in Jeffrey Epstein's former Jet and Donald Trump is campaigning on the Epstein plane seems like a pretty big deal right so the tail number of the plane has changed but the serial number which stays with the hull has not changed and so we're able to see that it is indeed the same exact plane here's Jeffrey Epstein in front of his Gulf Stream 550 Arrow here's Donald Trump he's now put Trump 2024 over the same Gulf Stream that jeffre Epstein used to traffic women in folks let's just take a look at the data so we can see it for ourselves you'll see that Jeffrey Epstein's plane had a different tail number than what it currently is but as you take a look at the serial number take a look right here at the serial numbers and you'll compare them the serial number 5173 compare it to the serial number right now 5173 and you'll see that it is the same Gulf Stream 550 plane you put them side by side Undisputed same plane so what happened was is that uh Epstein's plane sold in 2020 to uh a friend of Donald Trump's and a trump donor it sold for $6.9 million in July of 2020 the New York Post wrote about it there and apparently this is how how Donald Trump has now gotten his hands on that plane and Trump is flying around in that plane as um this one account says the tail number n212 J the same plane belonged to Jeffrey Epstein which was purchased by a friend of Donald Trump's um the same account said is anyone going to ask Donald Trump why he was flying on Jeffrey Epstein's plane on Saturday in campaigning in it and why it is now why it now has the Trump Vance names on it or it says Trump 2024 um you know we're going to call it out and we're going to question it here at the mightest touch Network and we're going to just show people the facts and people can assess for themselves and you know I think that Donald Trump is flying around in Epstein's jet currently just think there's a lot there's a lot of um G550 out there that you could have got that's the one that you want to use but look I think it opens up the Pandora's Box and we should talk about their relationship we should talk about the fact that Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were very close friends and for those who watch the mightest touch Network you know that we've done our digging on their relationship and we continue to just talk about it and Report the facts so let's report the facts shall we Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were very close friends in the 1990s they were very close close friends in general they both lived in West Palm Beach um and Donald Trump said about Jeffrey Epstein in 2002 that is a direct quote that Donald Trump gave to New York Magazine that Jeffrey Epstein is a great guy who likes women on the younger side Donald Trump meant girls but Donald Trump said liked women on the younger side now one of the areas where Jeffrey Epstein recruited from and trafficked women was from maral Lago case in point Virginia je Fray Virginia je Fray was working at maralago she was previously homeless she then worked at maral Lago and gilain Maxwell who did the trafficking for Jeffrey Epstein found Virginia je fre and maral Lago and she saidd like you to meet a wealthy person who I work for and the rest was history and that's how she was introduced to uh Jeffrey Epstein now you go through uh the photo of the fact that Donald Trump brought his kids around Jeffrey Epstein there's like a photo right here Donald Trump hung out with Jeffrey Epstein uh a ton of times they frequently partied together uh you see that uh photo right there the infamous photo and Donald Trump is on Jeffrey Epstein's phone logs Donald Trump is on Jeffrey Epstein's flight logs Jeffrey Epstein brought a woman of indeterminate age on Donald Trump's plane which was uh previously reported during the gilain Maxwell sex trafficking trial um a for person testified that she was 14 years old Jeffrey Epstein introduced her to Donald Trump throughout the Epstein files Donald Trump's name appears on the list over and over again Donald Trump is in the depositions of women who were trafficked by Epstein who talk about how Epstein said I got to call my friend Donald Trump and let's land the plane the plane I guess could be the plane that Trump's on now but land the plane in Atlantic City to go to one of Trump's Casino may have been an earlier plane at the time to be with to to go and meet Donald Trump in Atlantic City um so you see this over and over again I mean look what did Donald Trump say uh before gilain Maxwell's criminal trial or while her trial was taking place when the Press asked Donald Trump what do you want to say to gilain Maxwell who Donald Trump was friends with Donald Trump wish gilain Maxwell well he said I hope she I wish her well I'll just put it in in just so you see how Donald Trump said it here play this clip um justan Maxwell is in prison and a lot of people want to know if she's going to turn in powerful people and I know you've talked in the past about prince Andrew and uh you've criticized Bill Clinton's behavior I'm wondering uh do you feel that she's going to turn in powerful men how do you see that working out I don't know I haven't really been following it too much I just wish her way well frankly uh I've met her numerous times over the years especially since I lived in Palm Beach and I guess they lived in Palm Beach uh but I wish her well whatever it is uh I don't know the situation with prince Andrew just don't know not aware of it yeah and so now in 2024 Donald Trump is flying around in the Epstein jet campaigning in the Epstein jet same serial number same airplane and you see all of the connections there how about when Donald Trump went on Howard Stern and talked about how uh he would one of the reasons he own beauty pageants is because as the owner he would inspect girls naked um and he said that uh he would they'd allow him to inspect them naked no they didn't it was without consent because he would say I'm the owner of the pageants here play this clip well you could also say is the owner of the pageant it's your obligation to do that so so you have done that now tell me well I'll tell you the funniest is that I'll go backstage before show yes and everyone's getting dressed and ready and everything else and you know no men are anywhere and I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it you know I'm inspecting I want to make sure that is the dress is everyone okay you know they're standing there with no is everybody okay and you see these incredible looking women and so I sort of get away with things like and by the way there were um you know numerous uh women who came forward who talked about Donald Trump engaging in that behavior let me just show you a few right here play this clip is it normal to see men in dressing rooms at pageants and the and the owner of a pageant no no the um the director of the North Carolina South Carolina Louisiana and Alabama pageants it's very much a family atmosphere um she doesn't even go backstage when the girls are getting ready only the female chaperons are allowed backstage in the dressing rooms um with the girls I've never had an experience where there were or directors or anything like that walking back in the dressing rooms yeah as I understand there U you have an experience of something that happened the night before the pageant well not the night before the pageant but um when we were in New York City on the media tour they were doing a book launch at Trump Towers for the universal Beauty um book and they had a bunch of former Miss usas and Miss universes and all 51 of us and we did the Red Carpet and that was tons of fun and then they lined us all up and Trump went down the line and he shook your hand and um you know looked you over looked you up and down head to toe um and was just checking everybody out and you thought you felt I felt uh very dirty um it was very creepy it's kind of like when you're at a bar and a creepy guy is checking you out that's that was the experience for me here's Tasha dick Miss Arizona 2001 talking about what Donald Trump would do play this clip he just came strolling right in there was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything um some girls were topless other girls were naked as Miss Arizona 2001 Tasha Dixon competed in the missusa pageant Donald Trump owned the contest along with Miss Universe and Miss Teen USA for 19 years our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half naked changing into our bikinis to have the owner come walting in when we're naked or half naked in a very physically vulnerable position and then to have the pressure of the uh you know the the people that work for him telling telling us to go Fawn all Fawn all over him go walk up to him talk to him and Dixon has strong opinions about what she thinks were Trump's motivations I'm telling you Donald Trump own the pageant for the reason to utilize his power to get you know around beautiful women Dixon who lives in West Hollywood was 18 at the time who do you complain to he owns the pageant so there's no one to complain to everyone there works for him the year she competed the theme was empowering women and after hearing recent audio of trump talking about women she decided to speak out I miss Arizona so I Veer more on the conservative side um but I just like to choose what's right this is what Donald Trump said about um Lindsay loohan when she was either 17 or she had just turned 18 she had just turned 18 right around that time period where Donald Trump's talked about uh having sex with her because she had mental health issues which Donald Trump said um was a was more of a reason why he wanted to have sex with her here play this clip what do you think of Lindsay Lohan I think she's hot there's something there right yes you have to like freckles I've seen a you know a closeup of her chest yes and a lot of freckles are you into freckles if the father's a wreck like the way he is right you imagine the sex with this troubled yeah you're probably right she's probably deeply troubled and therefore great and bed back in the day how come the deeply troubled women yes you know deeply deeply troubled they're always the best in bed for some reason what I said is true I mean they they're just unbelievable I can tell from the you don't want to be with them for the long term but for the short term there's nothing then there's uh this report from uh the guardian which talked about these parties that Donald Trump would attend in connection with his beauty pageants his pageant was called one of them was hosting the look of the Year competition these were the girls right here and Donald Trump uh the guardian talked about at least one party Donald Trump attended on a yacht the spirit of New York um where men old enough to be these girls grandparents would grind on the girls um and you know Donald Trump was apparently there um Donald Trump posted photos of himself with the girl so you see a photo right there Donald Trump put this in a video recently um so you go through you just you know go through all of the facts about their uh relationship and friendship between Trump and EP we we created this video right here using the uh famous Kendrick Lamar song not like us but just to take a look at the video we made here play this clip I hear you like I'm young you better not he go to sell black one to any [ __ ] that talk to him and they love just make sure you H your little sister from Donald Trump is heard making questionable comments about a young girl you're going up the escalator I'm going to be dating her in 10 years certified lover boy certified [Music] pedophiles that [ __ ] them up I'mma do my stuff why you trolling like a [ __ ] ain't you tired trying to strike a cord and it's probably a minor what does Tiffany have of milers G Mara's legs we don't know whether or not she's got this part yet he routinely spoke fawningly of Jeffrey he admired Epstein's lifestyle well you know we're going to be Fearless in our coverage here at the midest touch Network and Donald Trump is using Epstein's plane right now we're going to talk about it you should share that information with people I mean creepy and disgusting is that hit subscribe let's get to 3 million together thanks for watching
