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 [email protected] 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
Donald Trump groped me in what felt like a ‘twisted game’ with Jeffrey Epstein, former model alleges. Stacey Williams says the ex-president, whose spokesperson denied the allegations, touched her in an unwanted sexual way in 1993, after Epstein introduced them by Stephanie Kirchgaessner and Lucy Osborne The Guardian Wed 23 Oct 2024 18.53 EDT https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... ey-epstein
[x] Stacey Williams, and the postcard she says Donald Trump sent her. Composite: Guardian Design/Getty Images/ Stacey Williams
A former model who says she met Donald Trump through the late sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein has accused the former president of groping and sexually touching her in an incident in Trump Tower in 1993, in what she believed was a “twisted game” between the two men.
Stacey Williams, who worked as a professional model in the 1990s, said she first met Trump in 1992 at a Christmas party after being introduced to him by Epstein, who she believed was a good friend of the then New York real estate developer. Williams said Epstein was interested in her and the two casually dated for a period of a few months.
“It became very clear then that he and Donald were really, really good friends and spent a lot of time together,” Williams said.
[x] Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein in 1992. Photograph: MSNBC
The alleged groping occurred some months later, in the late winter or early spring of 1993, when Epstein suggested during a walk they were on that he and Williams stop by to visit Trump at Trump Tower. Epstein was later convicted on sex offenses and killed himself in prison in 2019.
Moments after they arrived, she alleges, Trump greeted Williams, pulled her toward him and started groping her. She said he put his hands “all over my breasts” as well as her waist and her buttocks. She said she froze because she was “deeply confused” about what was happening. At the same time, she said she believed she saw the two men smiling at each other.
Karoline Leavitt, the press secretary for Donald Trump’s campaign, provided a statement denying the allegations, which said in part: “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. It’s obvious this fake story was contrived by the Harris campaign.”
[x] [x] The postcard that Stacey Williams says Donald Trump sent in 1993. Photograph: Courtesy Stacey Williams
Williams says that Trump sent her agent a postcard via courier later in 1993, an aerial view of Mar-a-Lago, his Palm Beach residence and resort. She shared it with the Guardian. In his handwriting – using what appears to be his usual black Sharpie – he wrote: “Stacey – Your home away from home. Love Donald”.
[x] Stacey Williams in 1996. Photograph: Evan Agostini/Getty Images
Williams, who is 56 and a native of Pennsylvania, has shared parts of her allegation on social media posts in the past, but revealed details about the alleged encounter on a call on Monday organized by a group called Survivors for Kamala, which supports Democratic presidential nominee Kamala Harris. The Zoom call featured actor Ashley Judd and law professor and academic Anita Hill, among others. Survivors for Kamala also took out an ad in the New York Times this week, signed by 200 survivors of sexual and gender violence, which was meant to serve as a reminder that Trump has been found liable for sexual abuse in a court.
After the alleged incident, Williams said that she and Epstein left Trump Tower, and that she began to feel Epstein growing angry at her.
“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 let him do that?’” she said on the Zoom call.
“He made me feel so disgusting and I remember being so utterly confused,” she said.
She described how the alleged incident seemed to her to be part of a “twisted game”.
“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 said in an interview with the Guardian.
She and Epstein parted ways soon after. Williams said she never had any knowledge of his pattern of sexual abuse, which would later become known. Epstein is now considered one of the worst and most prolific pedophiles in modern history.
[x] Former model who met Trump through Jeffrey Epstein alleges former president groped her – video
The allegation of groping and unwanted sexual touching follows a well-documented pattern of behavior by Trump.
About two dozen women have accused the former president, who has been convicted of multiple felonies, of sexual misconduct dating back decades. The allegations have included claims of Trump kissing them without their consent, reaching under their skirts, and, in the case of some beauty pageant contestants, walking in on them in the changing room.
A former model named Amy Dorris shared allegations about Trump similar to what Williams described in an interview with the Guardian in 2020. Trump denied ever having harassed, abused or behaved improperly toward Dorris.
Last year, a jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing the columnist E Jean Carroll in 1996 and awarded her $5m in a judgment.
Williams’ allegations raise new questions about Trump’s relationship with Epstein.
No evidence has surfaced that Trump was aware of or involved in Epstein’s misconduct.
But Trump and Epstein knew each other for decades and were photographed at the same social events in the 1990s and early 2000s, years before Epstein pleaded guilty in Florida in 2008 to state charges of soliciting and procuring a minor for prostitution.
“I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy,” Trump told New York magazine in 2002. “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.”
After Epstein was arrested on sex-trafficking charges in 2019, Trump told journalists in the Oval Office that he “knew him, like everybody in Palm Beach knew him” but that he had a “falling out” with Epstein in the early 2000s.
“I haven’t spoken to him in 15 years,” Trump said. “I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you.”
Asked whether she had considered coming forward in the past, as other women were making allegations against Trump, Williams said she was a person who wanted to avoid negative attention or risk the backlash many other survivors have faced.
“I left the business,” she said. “I disappeared on purpose because I love being anonymous and I love my life of being a private citizen. Then I watched what has happened to women who come out and it is so horrifying and abusive. The thought of doing that, especially as a mother with a child in my house, was just not possible,” she told the Guardian.
“I just chose in my own way – comments on social media to contradict people who said he didn’t do anything,” she said.
Like other survivors, she said, she has processed what happened to her and became more confident about facing an angry backlash, she said.
Williams spoke about the allegations to at least two friends who spoke to the Guardian. One friend, who asked not to be named, said Williams told her about the alleged incident in 2005 or 2006 during a conversation in which Williams mentioned knowing Epstein, and how he had introduced her to Trump. The friend specifically remembers Williams telling her that she had been groped by Trump. Epstein was not a household name at the time, but the friend would later recall the anecdote when the Epstein scandal erupted.
“What I recall is that it was groping … what we would call feeling someone up,” the friend said.
Ally Gutwillinger, another longtime friend, said Williams told her about the alleged incident in 2015. Gutwillinger remembers the timing because Trump had announced that he was running for president.
“I went to her house sometime in that week and I saw a postcard of Mar-a-Lago and I said: ‘What’s this?’ and she said ‘Turn it over,’” Gutwillinger said. “She said something like: ‘He’s vile, he groped me in Trump Tower.’”
Epstein Showed Me Photos of Trump with Topless Young Women Sitting in His Lap, Claims Author. OCTOBER SURPRISE? Controversial writer Michael Wolff says Epstein kept the pics in his safe—which the FBI later seized. by Hugh Dougherty Executive Editor The Daily Beast Updated Nov. 1 2024 3:45AM EDT Published Oct. 31 2024 5:50PM EDT
Jeffrey Epstein showed off photos of Donald Trump with “topless young women” sitting in his lap, the controversial author Michael Wolff has alleged.
The pedophile financier had about half a dozen pictures which showed Trump by the pool with multiple young women, Wolff claimed on his podcast, Fire & Fury, Thursday. They were taken in the “late ’90s” at Epstein’s Palm Beach home, where he victimized dozens of underage girls along with his procurer, Ghislaine Maxwell, Wolff said.
Wolff alleged that they were in Epstein’s safe, which the FBI seized when they raided his homes in New York and Palm Beach in July 2019. The massive haul of evidence taken by the feds has never been made public—and while prosecutors disclosed after the raid that they had “hundreds of photos of girls and young women,” they have never offered any more details of them.
Wolff said of the photos, “They were with Trump at Epstein’s Palm Beach house sitting around the pool with these young girls, and the young girls are topless.
“And in some of the pictures, they’re sitting in his lap. I mean, and, and then there’s one I especially remember where there’s a stain, a telltale stain and on the front of Trump’s pants, and the girls are pointing at him and laughing.” Trump separated from his second wife Marla Maples in 1997 and began dating his third wife, Melania, in 1998.
The Trump campaign hit back at Wolff for the claims, calling him “disgraced.” A campaign spokesperson said in a statement to the Beast, “Michael Wolff is a disgraced writer who routinely fabricates lies in order to sell fiction books because he clearly has no morals or ethics.
“He waited until days before the election to make outlandish false smears all in an effort to engage in blatant election interference on behalf of Kamala Harris. He’s a failed journalist that is resorting to lying for attention.”
Sources in the Trump camp claimed that he had severed his relationship with Epstein when he learned of allegations that he was a sex trafficker and pointed to his quote: “I was not a fan of Jeffrey Epstein. And you watched people yesterday saying that I threw him out of a club. I didn’t want anything to do with him. That was many, many years ago.”
Wolff described the photos as he revealed details of how Epstein was a key source for him while writing his best-selling book Fire & Fury, which rocked the Trump White House when it was published in 2018. Wolff said he had as much as 100 hours of tapes of Epstein talking about Trump and played a short snippet of one of the tapes in the podcast. He also said he was prompted to speak after allegations this week by a former Miss Switzerland that Trump groped her, “grabbing and touching my body everywhere he could.”
Asked by the co-host of the podcast, journalist James Truman, “Where are these pictures?” Wolff suggested they may be among the items taken by the FBI, which worked for Trump’s attorney general, Bill Barr, at the time.
“You know, he would go and he would take them out of the safe. And then he would return them to the safe and I would say it’s likely that they would have been there when the FBI, Trump’s FBI at that point, not to put too fine a point on it, raided Epstein’s house and took the contents of the safe in 2019.”
In 2017, when Wolff was speaking to Epstein, the pedophile was living as a free man and socializing openly in New York and Florida. The tape appears to have been made in a restaurant.
But, said Wolff, he felt that Epstein was at the time living in fear of Trump, whose victory the pedophile had predicted the previous year.
“I couldn’t help but feeling that there was a level of personal fear there. So he’s having this conversation with me. And as I say, I’m writing Fire and Fury," Wolff said.
"I‘m trying to figure out Donald Trump, but it‘s as confounding to me, of course, as it was to everybody. ’What? Who is this guy? How did this happen?’“
Wolff said Epstein’s level of fear “startled” him, and said, “I’ve spoken to several other people who knew Epstein well and yeah, you know, they make the same point. And I know that Epstein would emphasize how he believed Trump was capable of doing anything. He had no scruples.“
Claims that Epstein had compromising material on the rich and powerful with whom he associated have long swirled, especially since his death in a federal jail cell in August 2019, weeks after his arrest.
Wolff also expressed some skepticism that Epstein’s death was by suicide -- something which Trump suggested himself in August 2020 -- but also warned that the alternative, a cover-up on an extraordinary scale, is itself implausible.
“The descriptions of how he died seem completely implausible, to have to break your own neck,” Wolff said. “But the idea of him being murdered seems to also imply that you would have all of these assistant US attorneys and FBI agents who had to keep their mouths shut.”
Wolff, a veteran magazine journalist and author who was also the biographer of Rupert Murdoch, has long been a divisive figure with some questioning the accuracy of what he says and writes. When Fire & Fury was published in January 2018 it attracted praise and bromides in equal measure and threats to sue by Trump, which never materialized. Wolff did not disclose that Epstein, who was then alive and free, was a source and only hinted at it long after Epstein’s death.
The Daily Beast has reached out to the U.S. Attorney’s office for the Southern District of New York, which was prosecuting Epstein when he died, for comment.
Katie Johnson's full testimony of 2/11/16 Jun 5, 2020
Katie's video description was captured before Trump became President and matches perfectly with what's described by 100's of other underage girls.
Given Epstein’s history of secretly taping famous people taking sexual advantage of young women procured by Epstein, if the allegations in the Katie Johnson complaint are true, Trump has every reason to be concerned that tapes might exist which would prove Johnson’s allegations.
Attorney General (and Trump personal lawyer) Bob Barr made the highly unusual decision to un-recuse himself from the Epstein case and actually take direct control over the case, despite having previously announced he had a conflict of interest.
I would never have guessed that a billionaire could run a sex trafficking ring for decades with numerous people as accomplices and co-conspirators. But Epstein is already a convicted sexual predator and he continued the behavior even after his conviction.
These women who were sexually abused as girls deserve the complete truth. They deserve justice and it appears that Bill Barr and Donald Trump have the motivation to go to unimaginable lengths to prevent that from ever happening.
[Katie Johnson] I came to this interview of my free will. No, there was nothing promised to me for doing this interview. Yes, everything that I say at this interview will be the truth.
I met Donald Trump at some parties when I was working for Mr. Jeffrey Epstein. There was about three or four times that I had encounters with Donald Trump. I was 13. The first time that I met Donald Trump was at a party at Jeffrey Epstein's mansion. There was an orgy going on, and he was kind of watching off in the distance. And he basically asked if I could come over and give him a hand job. And at first I wasn't very comfortable with it. This was like my first or second party, and I didn't think that that was my responsibility. But my recruiter told me that I needed to do it. So I agreed to. I said -- sorry, this is a little difficult -- but before I gave him a hand job he kind of slapped my hand away and said, "You need to use a glove." And the recruiter ran over and handed me a glove, and said, "No one touches Mr. Trump's penis without a glove." So I needed to use a glove.
I gave him a hand job and then immediately after he had an orgasm, he left. And I didn't see him again at that party.
Jeffrey Epstein is a billionaire friend of Donald Trump's who was responsible for throwing the sex parties. I originally came to New York trying to be a model, and in my travels, I met a girl named Tiffany there who was very interested in me, and she said that's what she did, is that she helped girls, you know, get what they wanted, and she could help me get into modeling, and that she knew a lot of people that were higher-ups, and that it would be no problem. And she said that I would just basically have to come model at a couple of events and meet some people. It would be no sweat.
So of course I went. You know, it sounded like no big deal. And she was recruiting the girls to come to these parties. And, they all looked, I mean most of them were near my age. There were a couple girls that were maybe 14 or 15, but it seemed to me like we were all very young.
So Jeffrey Epstein knew that I was 13 years old. When he interviewed me, he asked me to get down to my bra and panties, and I thought that was weird. But I mean, modeling, maybe it was something about my figure. And he asked that I give him a massage. And then he asked me my age/ I told him, you know, I told him that I was 13. I told him why I was there, and he basically said, "Well, I'm sure that you'll fit pretty nicely here. And then he tried to basically slip himself inside of me. And I pushed him away, because at that point in time I still believed that there were models, and then there were the girls that did that. Like I thought there was a separation. So, I told him that I wasn't interested in that, but he said that I would do.
And as far as Donald Trump, he knew that I was 13. I believe that Tiffany told him. He seemed to take a liking to me, because I was so young, and I was also a virgin. So, I don't know, but it seemed like he wasn't really into having girls that were liked by the other guys. He kind of liked things to be his first, you know, for lack of a better term. But he was the one who wanted to get to a girl before everyone else did.
Donald Trump knew that I was 13, because the first the first night that I was there, Tiffany actually suggested that, and she had a whole bunch of different wigs then. I expressed interest in them, you know. I always told her that I would love to walk around with blue hair, and so I tried some on, and there was a blonde wig that she said that looked great on me. So I wore that wig. And Donald Trump had specifically asked about me, because I reminded him of his daughter. And Tiffany said, "Well, she's 13 as well." So, he knew the first time that he saw me. But he took a liking to me because I looked like his daughter.
The reason I'm coming out now is when it happened originally, I just wanted to forget about the whole incident. And when I saw that he was running for President [in 2016], I felt it was my responsibility to come out and tell our country what kind of man this person is. I don't think that he should even be the dog catcher, let alone running the greatest country in the world.
After I met Tiffany at the bus station, she basically took me to her house, her apartment, and I got ready. I put on a blonde wig, because it seemed fun to pretend to be someone different, and then we went to the party that I was basically interviewing for. And Jeffrey Epstein was the one that was running the party. He had a quick meeting with everyone who was employed there, and he had a private interview with me.
The first time that I met Jeffrey Epstein, he did try to force himself inside of me without getting the go-ahead, or anything, and then it was probably about the third or fourth party when he basically forced, it was another massage, and it wasn't sex, but there was penetration, and I told him that I didn't want that. But he got a little irritated, so there was something about him that I kind of held a lot of resentment towards him.
By the time that happened, I kind of already had started catching on that maybe I wasn't there for modeling, and maybe I was just getting used for things. And I kind of held him responsible.
I did receive money to go to these parties. After every party I was paid by Mr. Epstein. Out of all the girls that were there with me -- most of them were 13, or 14. I think the oldest one might have been just turned 16. I mean, she'd been there for a while.
It was actually -- it was Tiffany who said he liked to watch other people have sex. I mean, he was a germophobe. He doesn't like germs. So rather than partaking, he just watches.
So I informed him that I was a virgin, so I was basically sorry. So it was Tiffany who introduced us.
The second time that I saw Mr. Trump was the same scenario. He was looking on at an orgy. And Tiffany came over to me and said that Donald Trump had requested that I perform oral sex on him. And I'd never done something like that with anybody, so I was a little nervous. So I walked up to him, and he was standing there very proud-like. and I just kind of moved towards that direction, and he kind of slapped me away, and said, "What are you doing? You know you need to put a condom, like I was some dirty filth or something without a condom. Tiffany ran over and handed me a condom, and she was apologizing profusely to Trump, and she said that would never happen again. And she looked at me and scolded me for being kind of like a child, and that anytime you touched Donald Trump's penis, it needed to have a condom on, or glove, you know. And especially when it comes to performing oral sex.
So I apologized, and then I performed oral sex on him. And again, once he was done, he hopped up and that's the last I saw of him at that party. Some of the things that I noticed that were weird with him was that sometimes, before the parties, he would come over, Jeffrey Epstein and himself, would kind of banter back and forth. And Donald Trump was very racist. He said a lot of racist things. Like there were a lot of comments towards Mr. Epstein being Jewish, and comments like, "You Jewish bastard." And there were some words I didn't even understand -- something about the shape of Epstein's penis being directly related to his mole, and I'm not too familiar with the Jewish tradition, but I'm pretty sure that whatever he was saying wasn't very nice.
He also referred to people of Hispanic background, and he called them Spics. That was around the first time that the World Trade Center had gotten the bombing in the 90s, and he was talking about the towelheads, and how it would just be better off if we didn't let them in, or you know, basically get rid of every one, every single one that was already here. And that just made me really uncomfortable; really, really uncomfortable.
He also loved to call black people "Niggers," and Arabic people he called "Sandniggers."
The only time that he tried to give me some money was our last encounter together, where he acted out a rape fantasy. I was forced to give that money back, because Jeffrey Epstein paid us after the party. So he just gave me the money. I don't even know why. He gave it to me maybe to make me feel more cheap, because it was a rape fantasy to him, but I wasn't playing.
So there were those two times, and then there was after. And the next thing that happened was that Tiffany approached me and said he had a fantasy where he walked in on his maids basically making out, and that it was some type of fantasy for him. So at that point, I was like, "I don't want to be involved with anything that has to do with him." But she's like, "There's nothing that you'll have to do, just he's requesting you to be involved." So I felt like I didn't have a choice there. But his fantasy is basically, he's walking in on his two maids. I was the white maid, and there was a Spanish girl named Maria, who was the Hispanic maid. And we were making out, and he walks in, and he gets really angry, and threatens to call immigration on Maria if she doesn't come over and make things right, and give him a blow job. So while she is over there giving him a blow job, I am just supposed to look scared, like, "Oh no," you know, and cleaning up things, and pretending like I'm trying to go back to my job as a maid. And he was so rude to Maria -- I felt so bad for her -- and I guess it just didn't seem like a fantasy. And it's the weirdest fantasy, you know. He was threatening to call immigration on her.
So she wasn't even near going down to give him oral sex before he slapped her away, and said, "You need to put a condom on." And she's trying to say that she is so sorry, and he's like, "I can't even understand what you're saying," and "Speak English'. He made derogatory comments to her, and then he's like, "You know what? You don't know what you're doing. Have her come over and show you how it's done." And he said that I had to go over there or else he was going to call immigration on Maria. I didn't know if it was true or not. And he said that if I didn't show her how to perform oral sex on him, then he was going to call immigration on her, and then get rid of us both.
You know, anything in relation to him getting off, or being satisfied, or happy, had to do with him being in power, extreme power. And it was always intimidating when he was like that. You didn't really know if it was true, or funny. It's like, if you refuse to play along, would he really call immigration on Maria? Would he really get rid of us both? And I didn't even want to know what that meant. You know -- it wasn't a game. We just felt like it wasn't a game.
The one night that I had the blonde wig on, he mentioned that I reminded him of his daughter. And actually, during the maid fantasy, I didn't have a blonde wig on. I was trying to stay away from blond wigs at the time. But he actually requested -- told -- Tiffany that he wanted me to wear it. Like anytime I had it on, and he'd see me, he would say, "Man, you look just like my daughter. And it wasn't like, "Oh, you remind me of my daughter." It was a sick, evil-like, "You remind me of my daughter." It was just this weird pleasure-sick-smile. Like, I don't even want to know what he was thinking about. I could imagine what he was thinking about.
After the parties would end, we were to report to Mr. Epstein, and basically tell him everything that happened, who and what they liked, and what they disliked, and if there were any requests or if there was talk about anything. That's when we told Mr. Epstein everything. And then he paid us, and we went home. And with me, you know, I would normally get taken to the airport to go back home.
The fact that Trump has a chance to be the next President makes me feel disgusting inside. I've always been proud to be an American, and I think we live in a beautiful country. But I just see him ruining everything. He's horrible. What he portrays on the outside isn't even that great, but people don't even know the half of it -- how evil, sick and twisted that man is.
I have a friend that's been my friend ever since the eighth grade. I confided in her, and she knows all about it. She knows everything. I mean, I destroyed everything from that trip. I couldn't risk my dad finding out. And now I think I'm old enough, but at that point, I didn't want to not be his little girl, you know. I didn't want to lose my dad.
Basically, I never kept proof of any of the trips. I never told my parents because, you know, there would be no good outcome of telling my parents. They would have grounded me, and I would have never been allowed out of the house. My father would have come unglued. I did tell a friend, my best friend, and she's still my best friend to this day. She knows everything. She knows it all.
I'm prepared to do whatever it takes to save the country that I believe that we have. I know what he does behind closed doors. And I'm willing to sacrifice my life to get our country back. And they're right about going in some type of positive direction, but this guy's not gonna take us anywhere positive.
You know, as far as my life changing by coming out with this information, I've thought long and hard about whether or not I should do it. And I've gone back and forth. But I think that the American people need to know what kind of man this person is. And if my life changes because of that, then so be it. But the American people need to know what they're dealing with.
If I had the chance to talk to Donald Trump, I would run the other way. I'm scared of him like I've never been scared of anything else in my entire life. I can't explain it to you, but the fear of him even being in the next room makes me have panic attacks.
The last encounter that I had with Donald Trump, Tiffany approached me about a rape scene that we're supposed to play out, and I didn't like the sound of that at all. But Tiffany promised, ensured me, that if I wasn't comfortable with something, we could stop. That she would be right there, and it wouldn't get out of hand; and it was just a fantasy, and it wasn't really gonna happen. Tiffany was always nice to me. I felt I trusted her. And I wouldn't always trust her, or do what she asked me to, but she was there.
And when he came in, he basically tied me to a bed with pantyhose. And they ties were so tight it hurt to even lay there. And I tried to say something, and his response was "Just shut up; shut up bitch." He was being really, really rough, and it just didn't seem like a fantasy. And I started to get scared. And he was basically ripping my clothes off, and I actually got really freaked out, and I told him, "I don't want to do this." I was screaming for Tiffany, and this was scaring her, and he's like, "Oh, you shut up, too." He just turned into this animal. It was a completely different person. It was like everyone in the room was scared of him and it was like I couldn't do anything about it. And he ripped off all my clothes, and he started to basically have sex with me. And I was screaming, because I never had sex before. It was my first time. And Tiffany was yelling at him too. She was saying that I was a virgin, and he told us to "Just shut the fuck up," and basically took my virginity while I was crying and telling him to stop, and just begging for him to stop. And Tiffany didn't know what else to do either. No one was there to help us, or me.
And so, he basically finishes it, and it didn't take that long at all. I mean, it felt like it was like five and a half hours; it seemed like an eternity. I don't even know how long it was, but he was done, and I was crying, and Tiffany was apologizing. She told me that she would never put me in that situation again. But he came over mad, because I was crying. And he said that I should be thankful that someone like Donald Trump took my virginity. Well, he didn't say "took my virginity." He said I should be glad that someone like Donald Trump popped my cherry and not some pimply little 14-year-old. And speaking to Tiffany, I asked, "What if I get pregnant"? I wasn't even talking to him. I didn't want to talk to him. I was talking to Tiffany. And he said, "Well, you'll get an abortion then, bitch." And then he just walked away. And then I told Tiffany that I needed to go home. And I never went back again.
I guess it's for you to decide. You know, I don't have any kids myself because I'm afraid to have kids, because who knows what kind of damage they can get into. But if you have a 13-year-old daughter, would you be okay with the person who's running our country doing that to your little girl? And I just want people to know. I have faith in our society that it will make the right choice.
He seemed to be taking great pleasure, and enjoyed the dominance and control he had over me. And the more I screamed, the more I got scared, the more he was enraged with power. And it was like he was just charged with it. It was scary.
My experience with Donald Trump has made it to where I can't be in a healthy relationship, I can't be in a relationship without without self-sabotaging it. I don't do well. I mean, I've been in a couple of relationships. I mean they're never of interest to me normally, but one man in particular was a wonderful man, and I couldn't even control myself from self-sabotaging. It was like I had to get him out of my life, and I don't even know why. It was like, anytime anyone loves me I don't feel worth it. I don't even know how to explain it. Like I can be friends, I can have acquaintances with guys, but anytime it's someone who expresses anything else besides that, I can't take any pleasure in it. Whether I mean to or not, it's like I hurt their feelings just so they'll never talk to me again. And make sure that it's not ever a possibility.
Donald Trump destroyed my feeling of self-worth, and my self-esteem, when it just bloomed. It hadn't even had a chance to experience anything.
I have only spoken to to one therapist about, this just recently actually. For a long time I just really tried to forget about it. I tried very hard. But I've been to counseling for other things. I went to counseling for the previous relationship that I was sabotaging. And my counselor said, "Something has happened to you, and you need to deal with that." And I was like, "Hmm." He knew that there was something that had happened where I was self-sabotaging, or sabotaging these relationships. But he said that it was my responsibility to deal with it.
Donald Trump has just destroyed my self-esteem. And I feel like it's destroyed part of my life. The only healthy relationship I could have had, I completely demolished it. And I love to choose the dysfunctional ones that I know I can just push away. After what happened with Donald Trump, I can't trust a man ever again. And thinking about it just makes me sick to my stomach. So when something so traumatic happens to someone who's so young, you never ever really get over it.
