Here's The List Of Women Who Accused Donald Trump Of Sexual Misconduct 
 
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 Updated Dec. 6, 2017, at 11:35 a.m. ET. 
 
 For the first time, President Trump publicly addressed allegations against Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore on Tuesday. The president defended Moore, who is accused of making unwanted sexual advances toward teenage girls as young as 14 when he was in his 30s. 
 
 "Let me just tell you, Roy Moore denies it," Trump said. "That's all I can say. He denies it. And by the way, he totally denies it." 
 
 The comments came nearly two weeks after the allegations against Moore first came to light. Trump had avoided answering reporters' questions about Moore since that time. 
 
 This isn't the first time this week Trump has weighed in on politicians engaging in sexual misconduct. He attacked Democratic Sen. Al Franken after a woman accused him of groping her in 2006. 
 
 This is charged territory for the president, because more than a dozen women have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, ranging from inappropriate comments to assault. He also infamously once bragged on tape about grabbing women by the genitals, saying, "When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything." 
 
 That tape kicked off a flood of accusations, which, taken together, suggest a decades-long pattern of behavior. NPR has compiled a list of the things women have alleged against him. 
 
 Assault Allegations (Unwanted Touching, Kissing, Etc.) 
 
 NAME: Jessica Leeds 
 
 TIME FRAME: Early 1980s 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Alleges that she sat next to Trump on a flight 
 
 ALLEGATION: Leeds told the New York Times that after she was moved into a first-class seat next to his, Trump lifted the armrest, touched her breasts, and "started putting his hand up [her] skirt." 
 
 "He was like an octopus," she said. "It was like he had six arms. He was all over the place." 
 
 Leeds affirmed to NPR the account in the Times and says she shared her story in a letter to the editor. 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: Trump denied the allegation in an interview with the Times, threatening to sue the organization and calling the reporter who asked him about it a "disgusting human being." In a statement released Wednesday night, the Trump campaign emphatically denied all of the allegations in the Times story (which also includes the allegations by another woman, Rachel Crooks, below). From Jason Miller, a Trump spokesman: 
 
 "This entire article is fiction, and for the New York Times to launch a completely false, coordinated character assassination against Mr. Trump on a topic like this is dangerous. To reach back decades in an attempt to smear Mr. Trump trivializes sexual assault, and it sets a new low for where the media is willing to go in its efforts to determine this election. "It is absurd to think that one of the most recognizable business leaders on the planet with a strong record of empowering women in his companies would do the things alleged in this story, and for this to only become public decades later in the final month of a campaign for president should say it all. "Further, the Times story buries the pro-Clinton financial and social media activity on behalf of Hillary Clinton's candidacy, reinforcing that this truly is nothing more than a political attack. This is a sad day for the Times." 
 
 In a Friday speech, Trump also said of Leeds: "Believe me. She would not be my first choice. That I can tell you." He added, "You don't know. That would not be my first choice." 
 
 NAME: Ivana Trump 
 
 TIME FRAME: 1989 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Wife from 1977 to 1992 
 
 ALLEGATION: In a July 2015 article, The Daily Beast summarized an incident (also written about in the 1993 book Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald Trump, by Harry Hurt III) in which Ivana Trump alleged a violent attack by her former husband: 
 
 "After a painful scalp reduction surgery to remove a bald spot, Donald Trump confronted his then-wife, who had previously used the same plastic surgeon. " 'Your f[******] doctor has ruined me!' Trump cried. "What followed was a 'violent assault,' according to Lost Tycoon. Donald held back Ivana's arms and began to pull out fistfuls of hair from her scalp, as if to mirror the pain he felt from his own operation. He tore off her clothes and unzipped his pants. " 'Then he jams his penis inside her for the first time in more than sixteen months. Ivana is terrified... It is a violent assault,' Hurt writes. 'According to versions she repeats to some of her closest confidantes, 'he raped me.' "Following the incident, Ivana ran upstairs, hid behind a locked door, and remained there 'crying for the rest of night.' When she returned to the master bedroom in the morning, he was there. "As she looks in horror at the ripped-out hair scattered all over the bed, he glares at her and asks with menacing casualness: 'Does it hurt?' Hurt writes." 
 
 Ivana Trump, however, has dialed back the allegation. In a statement given just prior to the book's printing (also quoted by the Daily Beast), she said: "[O]n one occasion during 1989, Mr. Trump and I had marital relations in which he behaved very differently toward me than he had during our marriage. As a woman, I felt violated, as the love and tenderness, which he normally exhibited towards me, was absent. I referred to this as a 'rape,' but I do not want my words to be interpreted in a literal or criminal sense." 
 
 Last year, she released another statement to CNN, saying that she originally told the story "at a time of very high tension" amid her divorce from Donald Trump, adding that the story was "totally without merit." 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: In 1993, Trump said that Ivana's allegations were "obviously false," as the Daily Beast reports, quoting Newsday. Trump's lawyer, Michael Cohen, said that "you cannot rape your spouse" — a statement that is entirely untrue (Cohen has since apologized). He also threatened The Daily Beast reporters who wrote the story at length, saying at one point: "So I'm warning you, tread very f****** lightly, because what I'm going to do to you is going to be f****** disgusting. You understand me?" 
 
 NAME: Kristin Anderson 
 
 TIME FRAME: Early 1990s 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Anderson and Trump were at a nightclub in Manhattan on the same night 
 
 ALLEGATION: Anderson says Trump sat next to her on a couch, put his hand up her skirt, and "touched her vagina through her underwear," in the words of the Washington Post's Karen Tumulty, to whom Anderson told her story. She said she pushed his hand away immediately, and that the incident was brief: "less than 30 seconds," as Tumulty wrote. The people at the club with her knew of the incident, and Anderson also said she told friends a few days later. 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: "Mr. Trump strongly denies this phony allegation by someone looking to get some free publicity. It is totally ridiculous," Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks told the Post. 
 
 NAME: Jill Harth 
 
 TIME FRAME: Starting in 1992 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Business partner 
 
 ALLEGATION: The New York Times first published a legal complaint detailing Harth's account in May, but Harth elaborated in an interview with the Times' Nicholas Kristof in October. She said that at dinner one night, Trump put his hands up her skirt, touching her crotch. "He was relentless ... I didn't know how to handle it. I would go away from him and say I have to go to the restroom. It was the escape route," she told Kristof. "He name-dropped continuously," she added in a later lawsuit, "when he wasn't groping me." 
 
 More from the article: 
 
 " 'I was admiring the decoration, and next thing I know he's pushing me against a wall and has his hands all over me,' Harth told me. 'He was trying to kiss me. I was freaking out.' " 
 
 However, Harth also said Kristof that Trump was "never violent," as Kristof wrote. 
 
 Harth also told her story to WNYC in August after a Twitter spat with Trump: 
 
 "He knew I was engaged to somebody else, and he seemed to be very into trying to break that up. He was sexually harassing me, that's it, plain and simple. ... It was a shock and I pushed him off of me. And I was, I said to him, What are you doing, why are you doing this? He put out that he's the type of guy that gets what he wants. Donald gets what he wants. And he was annoyed and insulted that I wasn't going for it with him. I believe, in his mind, he was — this was a come on for him, some kind of romantic overture. Whereas for me, it was unwanted and aggressive, very sexually aggressive." 
 
 For more context, Harth attended one of Trump's rallies last year as part of a makeup artist job. Here's what she told WNYC: 
 
 "I'm a makeup artist. The guy is a mess, OK? He really needed my services, and I'm a makeup artist that needs a job. Why would, if I was on friendly terms, why wouldn't I try to get that job?" 
 
 She added that she brought up the complaint and vowed not to talk, but: 
 
 "Yes, I said to him, very briefly, if anybody ever brings up anything about that, I'm not saying anything, only good things, OK, Donald? And he said OK, and he gave me like a hug, which to me meant, you know, if any normal person — you would assume they shut their mouth, too. But with Donald, he can't resist an opportunity to answer. You know what, if he could have said nothing, that would have been great, we wouldn't be sitting here talking here." 
 
 NPR has reached out to Harth for further comment. 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: "Trump strongly denies these improprieties," Kristof wrote. 
 
 Trump took to Twitter in May, calling the Times' story "false, malicious & libelous." 
 
 NAME: Temple Taggart 
 
 TIME FRAME: 1997 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Former Miss Utah, 21 in 1997, the first year Trump owned Miss USA. 
 
 ALLEGATION: According to the New York Times, Taggart said: 
 
 "He kissed me directly on the lips. I thought: 'Oh, my gosh. Gross.' He was married to Marla Maples at the time. I think there were a few other girls that he kissed on the mouth. I was like, 'Wow, that's inappropriate.' " 
 
 She told the Times that he did it again after the pageant: 
 
 "At the gala celebration after the show, she said, Mr. Trump immediately zeroed in on her, telling her how much he liked her style and inviting her to visit him in New York to talk about her future. Soon enough, she said, he delivered another unwelcome kiss on her lips, this time in Trump Tower." 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: Per the Times: "Mr. Trump disputes this, saying he is reluctant to kiss strangers on the lips." He also told NBC this week, "I emphatically deny this ridiculous claim." 
 
 NAME: Karena Virginia 
 
 TIME FRAME: 1998 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Virginia says she was standing outside the U.S. Open when Trump approached her. 
 
 ALLEGATION: According to Yahoo! News, the then-27-year-old Virginia was waiting for a ride outside the U.S. Open in 1998. Here is her account of what happened: 
 
 "He then walked up to me and reached his right arm and grabbed my right arm. Then his hand touched the right inside of my breast. I was in shock. I flinched. 'Don't you know who I am. Don't you know who I am,' That's what he said to me. I felt intimidated and I felt powerless. "Then my car pulled up and I got in. ... " 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: In an emailed statement, Jessica Ditto, deputy communications director, said the following: "Discredited political operative Gloria Allred, in another coordinated, publicity seeking attack with the Clinton campaign, will stop at nothing to smear Mr. Trump. Give me a break. Voters are tired of these circus-like antics and reject these fictional stories and the clear efforts to benefit Hillary Clinton." 
 
 NAME: Mindy McGillivray 
 
 TIME FRAME: 2003 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: McGillivray attended a party at Mar-a-Lago in January 2003. 
 
 ALLEGATION: McGillivray said Trump touched her buttocks, telling the Palm Beach Post: 
 
 "All of a sudden I felt a grab, a little nudge. I think it's [my friend Ken Davidoff's] camera bag, that was my first instinct. I turn around and there's Donald. He sort of looked away quickly." 
 
 She said later: 
 
 "This was a pretty good nudge. More of a grab. It was pretty close to the center of my butt. I was startled. I jumped." 
 
 Davidoff corroborated the story to the Post, saying that immediately after the incident, she told him, "Donald just grabbed my ass!" 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks tells NPR, "There is no truth to this whatsoever." 
 
 NAME: Rachel Crooks 
 
 TIME FRAME: 2005 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Was a receptionist at a firm in Trump Tower. 
 
 ALLEGATION: She says that immediately after she introduced herself to Trump, he kissed her cheeks, then moved to her mouth. "It was so inappropriate," she told the New York Times. "I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that." 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: Trump's statement under the Jessica Leeds entry (above) applies to this allegation as well. 
 
 NAME: Natasha Stoynoff 
 
 TIME FRAME: December 2005 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Was a People magazine writer covering Trump in 2005. 
 
 ALLEGATION: Stoynoff writes in a piece posted Wednesday night about a 2005 trip she took to Mar-a-Lago to interview Trump and his wife, Melania. During a break, Trump offered to show her around, saying there was one room in particular he wanted her to see. Stoynoff's account describes what happened next as an "attack": 
 
 "We walked into that room alone, and Trump shut the door behind us. I turned around, and within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall, and forcing his tongue down my throat. ... I was stunned. And I was grateful when Trump's longtime butler burst into the room a minute later, as I tried to unpin myself." 
 
 Later, she writes, Trump said to her, "You know we're going to have an affair, don't you?"NPR has reached out to Stoynoff and People magazine. Stoynoff did not respond, but People said that she is not giving interviews right now. 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: In a tweet Thursday morning, Trump questioned why Stoynoff did not level her accusations in her 2005 People piece and concluded that "it did not happen." 
 
 In a speech shortly after Stoynoff alleged the assault, Trump also said of Stoynoff: "You take a look. Look at her. Look at her words. You tell me what you think. I don't think so." 
 
 NAME: Jessica Drake 
 
 Why didn't the writer of the twelve year old article in People Magazine mention the "incident" in her story. Because it did not happen! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2016 
 
 TIME FRAME: 2006 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Drake met Trump at a golf tournament in Tahoe, Calif. 
 
 ALLEGATION: Drake said Trump invited her to his suite after the tournament. Because she did not feel comfortable going alone, she said she brought friends with her to his room. "When we entered the room," Drake daid, "he grabbed each of us tightly in a hug and kissed each one of us without asking permission." 
 
 After ending their visit to his room — which "felt like an interview," Drake said — she said she received another phone call from a man speaking on Trump's behalf: 
 
 "He said Donald wanted me to come back upstairs to Donald's suite. I indicated I did not wish to return. Then Donald called. He asked me to return to his suite and have dinner with him. He also invited me to a party; I declined. Donald then asked me, 'What do you want? How much?' I told him that I couldn't because I had to return to LA for work. I said that as an excuse because I didn't want him to continue asking me, and I didn't want to be with him. "After that, I received another call from either Donald, or a male calling on his behalf, offering me $10,000. I declined again and once more gave, as an excuse, that I had to return to Los Angeles for work. I was then told Mr. Trump would allow me to use his private jet only if I accepted his private invitation." 
 
 She and attorney Gloria Allred also released a photo of Drake and Trump together. 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: In an emailed statement, the Trump campaign vigorously denied Drake's allegation: 
 
 "This story is totally false and ridiculous. The picture is one of thousands taken out of respect for people asking to have their picture taken with Mr. Trump. Mr. Trump does not know this person, does not remember this person and would have no interest in ever knowing her. This is just another attempt by the Clinton campaign to defame a candidate who just today is number one in three different polls. Anyone who would pay thugs to incite violence at a rally against American citizens, as was released on video, will stop at nothing. Just another example of the Clinton campaign trying to rig the election." 
 
 In an Oct. 24 interview on a New Hampshire radio station, Trump again called the accusations "all fiction" and added (as reported by CNN): "One said, 'He grabbed me on the arm.' And she's a porn star. You know, this one that came out recently, 'He grabbed me, and he grabbed me on the arm.' Oh, I'm sure she's never been grabbed before." 
 
 NAME: Summer Zervos 
 
 TIME FRAME: 2007 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Zervos was a contestant on The Apprentice 
 
 ALLEGATION: Speaking in a Friday news conference with her attorney, Gloria Allred, Zervos said that Trump kissed her "aggressively" and touched her breast. She said he also led her into the bedroom. After she walked out, he embraced her. She tried to push him away, and he "began thrusting his genitals." 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: In a statement Friday afternoon, Trump said he "vaguely remembered" Zervos as contestant on The Apprentice. "To be clear, I never met her at a hotel or greeted her inappropriately a decade ago. That is not who I am as a person, and it is not how I've conducted my life," he said. Trump also said Zervos had asked him for help, "asking that I visit her restaurant in California" in April 2016. 
 
 NAME: Cassandra Searles 
 
 TIME FRAME: 2013 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Was Miss Washington 2013 in the Miss USA pageant 
 
 ALLEGATION: According to a June Yahoo News story, Searles wrote a Facebook post decrying Trump's actions as a pageant leader: 
 
 "Do y'all remember that one time we had to do our onstage introductions, but this one guy treated us like cattle and made us do it again because we didn't look him in the eyes? Do you also remember when he then proceeded to have us lined up so he could get a closer look at his property? Oh I forgot to mention that guy will be in the running to become the next President of the United States. I love the idea of having a misogynist as the President. #‎HeWillProbablySueMe ‬‪#‎iHaveWorseStoriesSoComeAtMeBro‬ ‪#‎Drumpf‬." 
 
 In the comments section, other contestants agreed with Searles, saying they remembered the experience, Yahoo reported. 
 
 Searles also wrote in the comments section, "He probably doesn't want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room," according to Yahoo. 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: As yet, neither Trump nor his campaign has responded to Searles' allegations specifically. 
 
 NAME: Unnamed woman, friend of CNN anchor Erin Burnett 
 
 TIME FRAME: 2010 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Unclear 
 
 ALLEGATION: The woman told CNN that she met Trump in a Trump Tower boardroom in 2010. Here is what she told the cable news network: 
 
 Wow. Erin Burnett says Trump popped a tic tac and tried to kiss a friend she knows https://t.co/GsYV2Y1upG — Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) October 8, 2016 
 
 "Trump took Tic Tacs, suggested I take them also. He then leaned in, catching me off guard, and kissed me almost on lips. I was really freaked out. ... After (the meeting), Trump asked me to come into his office alone. Was really unsure what to do. ... Figured I could handle myself. Anyway, once in his office he kept telling me how special I am and gave me his cell, asked me to call him. I ran the hell out of there." 
 
 Burnett has referenced this incident multiple times on the air — last week, as well as in a Wednesday night interview. NPR has reached out to CNN, which responded that Burnett "doesn't have anything else to add," and nor does her friend. 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: NPR has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment. 
 
 Entering Dressing Rooms Of Pageant Contestants 
 
 NAME: Mariah Billado 
 
 TIME FRAME: 1997 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Was Miss Vermont Teen USA in 1997 
 
 ALLEGATION: Billado alleged that Trump entered the dressing room while contestants were changing. Billado told BuzzFeed: 
 
 "I remember putting on my dress really quick, because I was like, 'Oh my god, there's a man in here.' Trump, she recalled, said something like, 'Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before.' " 
 
 Billado also recalled telling Ivanka Trump about the incident, telling Buzzfeed that Ivanka responded, "Yeah, he does that." 
 
 Four other contestants reached by BuzzFeed said they remembered it, but 11 said they don't remember seeing him in the dressing room. 
 
 However, per BuzzFeed: 
 
 "Of the 11 women who said they don't remember Trump coming into the changing room, some said it was possible that it happened while they weren't in the room or that they didn't notice. But most were dubious or dismissed the possibility out of hand." 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: The Trump campaign didn't respond directly to BuzzFeed's requests for comment. However, in a 2005 Howard Stern interview posted by CNN, Trump said he used to go into the dressing rooms during pageants. 
 
 " 'Well, what you could also say is that, as the owner of the pageant, it's your obligation to do that,' Trump said, before discussing how he got away with going backstage when the contestants were naked. " 'Well, I'll tell you the funniest is that before a show, I'll go backstage and everyone's getting dressed, 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,' Trump said. 'You know, I'm inspecting because I want to make sure that everything is good.' " 'You know, the dresses. 'Is everyone okay?' You know, they're standing there with no clothes. 'Is everybody okay?' And you see these incredible looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that. But no, I've been very good,' he added." 
 
 NAME: Bridget Sullivan 
 
 TIME FRAME: 2000 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Was Miss New Hampshire 2000 
 
 ALLEGATION: Sullivan told BuzzFeed Trump walked into the dressing room before the pageant: 
 
 "While preparing for the national broadcast in 2000, Trump came backstage to wish the contestants good luck, even though many of the women weren't dressed. 'The time that he walked through the dressing rooms was really shocking. We were all naked,' Sullivan said." 
 
 However, four other contestants told BuzzFeed they didn't remember this. In addition, several other contestants and one former Miss Universe employee told BuzzFeed of generally positive or neutral experiences with Trump in the same story. 
 
 WHAT TRUMP SAID: A Trump spokesman said that this story and others cited by BuzzFeed were "totally false." 
 
 NAME: Tasha Dixon 
 
 TIME FRAME: 2001 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Dixon was Miss Arizona 2001 
 
 ALLEGATION: "He just came strolling right in. There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless, other girls were naked," Dixon told a CBS affiliate in Los Angeles. 
 
 "To have the owner come waltzing in when we're naked or half naked in a very physically vulnerable position, and then to have the pressure of the people that work for him telling us to go fawn all over him, go walk up to him, talk to him..." she added. 
 
 NPR has reached out to Dixon for further comment. 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: "These accusations have no merit and have already been disproven by many other individuals who were present," Trump spokeswoman Jessica Ditto said in a statement to the CBS affiliate. She added that she thinks the allegation is politically motivated. 
 
 NAME: Unnamed woman 
 
 TIME FRAME: 2001 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: Miss USA contestant in 2001 
 
 ALLEGATION: The former contestant declined to be named but told The Guardian that Trump entered the dressing room she shared with another contestant when they were not dressed: 
 
 " 'Mr Trump just barged right in, didn't say anything, stood there and stared at us,' she recalled. Trump's attitude, she said, seemed to be: 'I can do this because I can.' " 'He didn't walk in and say, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, I was looking for someone,' she continued. 'He walked in, he stood and he stared. He was doing it because he knew that he could.' " 
 
 Another contestant confirmed to The Guardian that the accuser told her about the incident after it happened. 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: The Guardian has yet to receive comment from the Trump campaign. NPR has also reached out to the Trump campaign for comment. 
 
 Other Incidents 
 
 NAME: Unnamed girl 
 
 TIME FRAME: 1992 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: The girl was visiting Trump Tower 
 
 WHAT HAPPENED: Wednesday night, CBS released video from a 1992 piece shot inside Trump Tower for Entertainment Tonight. The circumstances of the conversation are not clear, but in the video, Trump has a brief exchange with what sounds like a young girl, then comments to a companion: 
 
 Trump: You going up the escalator? Girl: Yeah. Trump: I'm going to be dating her in 10 years. Can you believe it? 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: NPR has reached out to the Trump campaign about this video. 
 
 NAME: Two unnamed 14-year-old girls 
 
 TIME FRAME: 1992 
 
 CONNECTION TO TRUMP: The girls were singing in a youth choir outside the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan. 
 
 WHAT HAPPENED: The incident is from a brief Chicago Tribune wire story at the time (dug up this week by the Los Angeles Times). Here is the wire story in its entirety: 
 
 "Donald Trump turned up Monday for a carol sing by a youth choir outside Manhattan's Plaza Hotel. He asked two of the girls how old they were. After they responded they were 14, Trump said, 'Wow! Just think — in a couple of years I'll be dating you.' " 
 
 WHAT TRUMP HAS SAID: NPR has reached out to the Trump campaign for comment. ||||| Summer Zervos, a contestant on the fifth season of “The Apprentice,” sat next to her attorney Gloria Allred at a press conference in Los Angeles on Friday as she tearfully detailed claims of how Trump forcibly kissed and groped her during an encounter at a Beverly Hills hotel in 2007. 
 
 ADVERTISEMENT Trump denied the accusations in a statement, saying he only “vaguely” remembers Zervos and that he never met her inside of a hotel room or touched her inappropriately. He blamed the media for “throwing due diligence and fact-finding to the side in a rush to file their stories first.” “That is not who I am as a person, and it is not how I’ve conducted my life,” Trump said. “In fact, Ms. Zervos continued to contact me for help, emailing my office on April 14th of this year asking that I visit her restaurant in California.” Zervos said that after being eliminated from the game show, she approached Trump about working at one of his golf courses in Southern California. 
 
 She said Trump set up a meeting about a job opportunity at a hotel room in Beverly Hills, where he greeted her with an “open-mouthed kiss.” 
 
 Zervos said she was stunned and moved to the other side of the room to get away from him. 
 
 “He grabbed my shoulder and kissed me again aggressively and placed his hand on my breast,” Zervos said, choking back tears. “I pulled back and walked to another part of the room. He grabbed my hand and walked me into the bedroom. I walked out.” 
 
 After suggesting the two lay down on the bed to watch “telly-telly,” Zervos said Trump again came onto her. 
 
 She said she pushed Trump away from her by the chest to “create space,” and that Trump responded by telling her to “get real” and “thrusting his genitals” at her. 
 
 Zervos said Trump eventually became angered by her rebuff. 
 
 She said he bailed on a subsequent meeting, and that she received a job offer for half of what had been agreed upon. 
 
 When Zervos inquired about the disparity, Trump said she was no longer to contact him on his personal phone number and that the company had run into financial trouble and could no longer hire her. 
 
 “I wanted a job in your organization,” Zervos said. “Instead you treated me as an object to be hit upon. You were interested in me only to have sexual relations with me and no other reason. After hearing your released audio tapes and denials during the debate, I felt I had to speak out about your behavior. You do not have the right to treat women as sexual objects just because you are a star.” 
 
 More than a half-dozen women have come forward to say they were the subject of aggressive or unwanted sexual advances from Trump. 
 
 The GOP presidential nominee has denied all of the accusations and sought to discredit the accusers. He has lashed out at the press for printing their stories and is threatening to sue several publications that have printed their accounts. 
 
 Some have raised questions about the timing of the women coming forward, saying it is suspicious that the allegations are happening so close to the election and did not come out during the primary. 
 
 But several of the women say they were moved to action by Trump’s lewd remarks, caught on a hot microphone from an “Access Hollywood” appearance in 2005, in which Trump bragged about grabbing women and being able to get away with it because of his celebrity. 
 
 Allred said Friday that some women have “feared the wrath and retaliation from Mr. Trump and his supporters,” that some thought they were the only victims or that people wouldn’t believe them until others came forward. 
 
 She urged Trump to “get help” and to drop out of the presidential race. 
 
 “Donald, before you can become president of the United States, you must first learn how to treat women with respect. Your words alone are disgraceful,” Allred said. 
 
 “The White House is not a locker room, and the American people deserve better than a president who feels entitled to grope, grab and assault women at his pleasure. You should be ashamed of yourself.” 
 
 - Updated at 6:11 p.m. ||||| Speaking to Washington Post reporter Karen Tumulty via a telephone earpiece, Kristin Anderson recalls Donald Trump groping her while she was sitting next to him at a nightspot in New York in the early 1990s. (Alice Li,Brian Young/The Washington Post) 
 
 Speaking to Washington Post reporter Karen Tumulty via a telephone earpiece, Kristin Anderson recalls Donald Trump groping her while she was sitting next to him at a nightspot in New York in the early 1990s. (Alice Li,Brian Young/The Washington Post) 
 
 Kristin Anderson was deep in conversation with acquaintances at a crowded Manhattan nightspot and did not notice the figure to her right on a red velvet couch — until, she recalls, his fingers slid under her miniskirt, moved up her inner thigh and touched her vagina through her underwear. 
 
 Anderson shoved the hand away, fled the couch and turned to take her first good look at the man who had touched her, she said. 
 
 She recognized him as Donald Trump: “He was so distinctive looking — with the hair and the eyebrows. I mean, nobody else has those eyebrows.” 
 
 At the time of the incident, which Anderson said took place in the early 1990s, she was in her early 20s, trying to make it as a model. She was paying the bills by working as a makeup artist and restaurant hostess. Trump was a big celebrity whose face was all over the tabloids and a regular presence on the New York club scene. 
 
 The episode, as Anderson described it, lasted no more than 30 seconds. Anderson said she and her companions were “very grossed out and weirded out” and thought, “Okay, Donald is gross. We all know he’s gross. Let’s just move on.” 
 
 Over the years, Anderson, now 46 and a photographer living in Southern California, recounted the story to people she knew, casually at first. 
 
 One friend, Kelly Stedman, told The Washington Post that Anderson told her about the encounter a few days after it happened. 
 
 “We were out at a girls’ brunch” at the Great Jones Cafe in Manhattan, Stedman said, recalling that when she and two other friends heard the story, they found themselves “laughing at how pathetic it was” on Trump’s part. 
 
 Anderson said she lived in New York City from 1991 until 2008. Brad Trent, a New York photographer, said he heard the story about Trump from Anderson at a dinner with a group of people in March 2007. 
 
 “It was just girls saying stories about how they got hit on by creepy old guys,” Trent said of the conversation around the table. “That’s when I found out about it.” 
 
 Anderson is one of a number of women who have come forward in recent days and said that Trump, the Republican presidential nominee, made unwanted sexual advances. 
 
 As Trump has done with others who have made accusations, his campaign said Anderson is making the whole thing up. 
 
 “Mr. Trump strongly denies this phony allegation by someone looking to get some free publicity. It is totally ridiculous,” Trump spokeswoman Hope Hicks said in an emailed statement. 
 
 Anderson, who said she does not support Trump or Democrat Hillary Clinton, did not initially approach The Post. A reporter contacted her after hearing her story from a person who knew of it, and she spent several days trying to decide whether to go public. 
 
 Anderson’s decision to do so follows last week’s disclosure by The Post of a 2005 video in which Trump boasted to “Access Hollywood” host Billy Bush that his celebrity gave him the ability to grab women “by the p---y. You can do anything.” 
 
 Trump insisted that his comments were “just words” and dismissed them as “locker room banter.” 
 
 Pressed about them in Sunday night’s debate against Clinton, Trump said that he had never done the things he had talked about, which would constitute sexual assault. 
 
 What Anderson described, however, is consistent with the behavior Trump described on the video. 
 
 “It wasn’t a sexual come-on. I don’t know why he did it. It was like just to prove that he could do it and nothing would happen,” Anderson said. “There was zero conversation. We didn’t even really look at each other. It was very random, very nonchalant on his part.” 
 
 Anderson said that she was particularly disturbed by the way the video caught Trump and Bush, who were aboard a bus, crudely discussing Arianne Zucker, an actress they spotted waiting to escort them onto a soap-opera set. Bush has since been suspended from his job as co-host of NBC’s “Today” show, and the network is reportedly negotiating his departure. 
 
 “I watched this woman — who could have been me; it could have been anyone — walk in and shake his hand,” Anderson said. “That was just nauseating, because she has no idea what she was walking into and what could possibly happen to her. And that’s just wrong.” 
 
 As Anderson agonized over whether to tell her story publicly, the New York Times reported the accounts of two women who said that Trump had groped them, and a People magazine reporter wrote a first-person story claiming that in December 2005, Trump pushed her against a wall and began “forcing his tongue down my throat.” 
 
 That decided it for Anderson. 
 
 “It’s a sexual assault issue, and it’s something that I’ve kept quiet on my own,” Anderson said. “And I’ve always kept quiet. And why should I keep quiet? Actually, all of the women should speak up, and if you’re touched inappropriately, tell somebody and speak up about it. Actually, go to the authorities and press some charges. It’s not okay.” 
 
 After nearly a quarter-century, there are details that Anderson struggled to recall. 
 
 The place was packed. 
 
 “There was a table in front of the couch, and there were people standing, people sitting. People are sitting on the arms of the couch,” she said. 
 
 She cannot name the people who were with her at the club but says it is likely they were co-workers from the restaurant where she was a hostess and with whom she long ago lost touch. 
 
 She believed her encounter with Trump had been at China Club but could not say for sure that it was not another Manhattan nightspot. 
 
 What she does remember vividly is the tufted red couch. As she pondered whether to share her story publicly, she Googled old photos of the club and found an image of a room crowded with the kind of couch she remembered. 
 
 A Newsday gossip item from December 1992 described China Club, located then at Broadway and 75th Street, as “Donald’s Monday-night nest,” where he made a practice of picking up women. At the time of the item, Trump had recently divorced his first wife, Ivana, and was not yet married to his second, Marla Maples. 
 
 On the busiest nights of its heyday, New York magazine once wrote, China Club would be “packed with more than 1,200 people, dancing, screaming, drinking, talking, mating, and smoking.” 
 
 Timothy Gleason, a longtime China Club manager, said he “never heard any accusations like” what Anderson described about Trump. 
 
 Anderson knows that because she has come forward, her personal life may be intensely scrutinized. She shared the fact that there have been rough spots. She has been twice divorced. In her breakup with one boyfriend, the couple placed restraining orders on each other. She was granted custody of their 5-year-old son. 
 
 Only in recent years did the incident with Trump start to take on larger meaning to her, Anderson said. 
 
 “Every once in a while, it [would] come up in a ‘remember the time when . . .’ conversation, and we [would] have a moment of disgust,” she wrote in an email to a Post reporter as she considered going on the record. “It didn’t cross my mind then that this person was a predator.” 
 
 Now, she said, she sees that behavior as a “gateway” to something worse. 
 
 A stranger “sort of groping you on the side, on the sly, like you’re some kind of stuffed animal on the couch. That’s really not okay, and it opens the door for much worse behavior on [his] part and for the girl, allowing worse things to happen to them because they feel that it’s inconsequential.” 
 
 “It’s really not nothing, and it sends an awful message to women that they’re nothing,” she added. 
 
 Anderson said she is not enamored with either of the major-party candidates. In May, records show, she switched her voter registration from Democrat to “no party preference.” 
 
 Anderson suggested jokingly that she might write in a vote for Mitt Romney or Oprah Winfrey to avoid casting one for Trump or Clinton. 
 
 “Both of them have some things that are good. And both of them have some things that are bad,” she said of the two major-party nominees. “But mostly, I’m just thinking — wow, this is the choice we have? This is it?” 
 
 Read more: Two speeches in two hours crystallize the state of Campaign 2016 
 
 Trump recorded having extremely lewd conversation about women in 2005 
 
 Amid crisis, Trump spreads another conspiracy theory — about his campaign 
 
 Alice Crites contributed to this report.
– Two more women have come forward to accuse Donald Trump of inappropriate sexual touching. Summer Zervos, a former contestant on The Apprentice says Trump grabbed her breasts, kissed her without consent, "thrust his genitals" at her, and tried to get her into his bed to watch "telly-telly" during a meeting about a job in 2007, the Hill reports. During a press conference Friday, Zervos said that after she rebuffed Trump's advances, her job offer was cut in half then rescinded entirely. Earlier, Kristin Anderson told her story to the Washington Post: She was at a Manhattan nightclub in the early 1990s when Trump sat next to her on a couch and groped her, touching her inner thigh and vagina through her underwear and underneath her skirt, she says. At the time, she was trying to get into the modeling industry. "It wasn’t a sexual come-on. I don’t know why he did it. It was like just to prove that he could do it, and nothing would happen," Anderson says. "There was zero conversation. We didn’t even really look at each other. It was very random, very nonchalant on his part." She and her friends came to the conclusion that, "OK, Donald is gross. We all know he's gross. Let's just move on," she says. The incident lasted half a minute or less before she pushed his hand away and got off the couch. Anderson, now 46, has told the story to friends over the years, and a person who had heard the story contacted the Post to get in touch with Anderson, but she did not decide to go public with her story until after the 2005 video in which Trump can be heard bragging about grabbing women "by the p---y" was leaked. NPR is keeping an ongoing list of women who have accused Trump of inappropriate sexual contact.