Trump Accuser Says He Groped Her in Front of Epstein: “Everything Donald Does Is Hidden in Its Brazenness”
Stacey Williams, a former Sports Illustrated model, has come forward with explosive new details about her alleged sexual assault by Donald Trump in the early 1990s an incident she says happened while Jeffrey Epstein watched and smiled.
The Alleged Assault at Trump Tower
Stacey Williams, now 57, says she was 25 when Trump groped her in the waiting area outside his office at Trump Tower while carrying on a casual conversation with Epstein, the infamous sex trafficker who would later die in a Manhattan jail cell under suspicious circumstances in 2019.
“Donald came out of his office… and started groping me while the two of them continued having a casual conversation,” Williams told The Daily Beast Podcast host Joanna Coles.
“He’s just moving his hands sort of up and down my body and like smiling at him and Jeffrey smiling back.”
The year was 1993. Trump, then around 46 and still best known as a flamboyant New York real estate mogul, was dating Marla Maples. Williams had crossed paths with Trump earlier that year during a taping of Saturday Night Live, where she said his behavior was “extremely flirtatious” even in Maples’ presence. Williams says she was introduced to Epstein by her modeling agent and began casually dating him shortly after they reconnected at a 1992 Christmas party hosted by Trump at the Plaza Hotel.
“I knew at that point how close they were, what good friends they were,” she said.
“That wasn’t the first time I’m hearing about the degree of their connection… So I said, oh, all right. OK, let’s stop by.”
That visit to Trump’s office would allegedly change everything.
Frozen in Place: “That Can’t Be Happening”
During the groping, Williams says she froze. She was caught off guard not just by the assault itself, but by how public and casual it was.
“Everything Donald does is hidden in its brazenness,” Williams said.
“You just do it right out there and everyone goes, ‘Well, that can’t be happening because it’s totally wrong and he’s doing it right in front of everyone.’”
Williams was no stranger to fighting back. She had developed a reputation in the modeling world for standing up to predatory behavior.
“For me to freeze, you know how masterful he is, in a way, to pull that off,” she said.
After the encounter, Epstein known for manipulating and intimidating young women allegedly exploded in rage.
“By the time we get out on the street… he just turned and started yelling at me and said, ‘Why did you let him do that?’” Williams recalled.
She says she ended the relationship shortly thereafter.
The Postcard and the Pattern
Sometime after the incident, Williams says she received a postcard from Trump showing an aerial view of Mar-a-Lago. It was signed:
“Stacey your home away from home. Love, Donald.”
Trump’s spokesperson has denied the allegation, claiming the signature on the card was forged. Karoline Leavitt, a spokesperson for Trump’s 2024 campaign, dismissed the story when it first emerged last October during a Survivors for Kamala call backing then-Vice President Harris:
“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,” Leavitt told The Guardian.
“It’s obvious this fake story was contrived by the Harris campaign.”
Two longtime friends of Williams confirmed to The Guardian that she had told them about the incident years ago, well before the 2024 campaign.
Echoes of a Broader Pattern
Williams’ story is not an outlier. According to The Guardian, more than two dozen women have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct over several decades. In 2023, a federal jury found Trump liable for sexual abuse and defamation in a civil case brought by journalist E. Jean Carroll, awarding her $5 million in damages for an assault that occurred in a department store dressing room in 1996. Despite these repeated allegations, Trump has denied all wrongdoing. He has claimed he was unaware of Epstein’s crimes, despite a well-documented friendship spanning the late ’80s through the early 2000s.
“I’ve known Jeff for fifteen years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with,” Trump famously told New York Magazine in 2002.
“It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”
That friendship reportedly ended around 2004, after what Trump described in a deposition as a falling out over Epstein “stealing” his staff.
Dark Shadows of the Past
Williams’ claims paint a disturbing portrait of two powerful men, Trump and Epstein, who operated with impunity at the height of their influence. Her story, made public decades later during a second wave of reckoning under the #MeToo movement, reflects not only the trauma of a single moment but also the deep-rooted, institutional tolerance of predatory behavior in elite circles. She says the culture around Trump and Epstein was one of casual dominance, where abuse was dismissed as banter and silence was the unspoken rule. And in her view, the most sinister part wasn’t the act, it was the setting:
“They were just talking like nothing was happening. That’s the game: to do it right in front of you, so you question your own reality.”
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