Pageant queen claims Trump groped her in Plaza Hotel suite in 1993 | EUROtoday
A former pageant queen has claimed that Donald Trump “jumped” on her “grabbing her body everywhere” in an incident at a New York lodge in 1993.
Beatrice Keul, 53, informed the Daily Mail that the previous president and present Republican nominee invited her as much as his suite on the Plaza Hotel for a “private talk”.
At 6’1” tall, she believes it was solely due to her top and power that she might struggle him off.
The Trump marketing campaign informed the Mail the allegations are “fake”.
Keul labored at a Swiss financial institution in Zurich and modeled part-time when she received second place within the Miss Switzerland 1992 pageant happening to take part within the ultimate spherical of the Miss Europe competitors in Istanbul that very same yr.
She then obtained an invite from the Donald J Trump American Dream Pageant to compete, together with an all-expenses-paid journey to New York and Atlantic City.
Keul got here ahead with the story now after discovering all of the documentation regarding her journey to New York in a field as she ready to maneuver. They had sat there for 30 years after she had returned “very upset” by the incident.
She described initially being excited by the prospect of the journey and that Trump’s identify was connected, telling the Mail: “Trump, as a brand, was quite something at that time. You could be blinded by all that. I didn’t know it’s a jungle there.”
Keul flew to Atlantic City through John F Kennedy Airport in New York on November 14, 1993. After the competitors, contestants had been bused to the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.
She met Trump, then 47, as he talked to the opposite contestants, saying it was good to lastly meet her: “He was definitely excited,” she stated, recalling that he mispronounced her identify as “Cool” and so they had a photograph taken collectively.
“We talked for so long that everybody was staring at us. A good 10 minutes if not 15. I couldn’t believe he was so fond of me.”
After lunch, a workers member approached her to say that Trump, who owned the lodge on the time, needed a personal assembly and he or she was taken upstairs to a collection.
“I was confident, but I went with closed eyes,” she recalled. “When I entered, he jumped on me. I just had time to turn. I was not prepared. I tried to do what I could to get rid of him.”
“He kissed me on the lips and on the neck. He tried to lift my dress. He was grabbing and touching my body everywhere he could,” Keul stated.
“I’m very tall, that’s what helped me a lot. I’m 185cm [6’1’] with a good 5-7cm shoes [2-3’]. I think my size saved me,” she stated and defined she received him to decelerate by saying one thing like “let’s talk first” in her recollection to the Mail.
Trump, she claimed, then held her hand, kissed her, and requested if she needed to drink one thing and sit down.
“It was a bit Jekyll and Hyde,” she stated. “I didn’t know how to react.”
Wondering how she might extricate herself from the state of affairs, Keul determined to be good and so they talked for about half-hour with the true property mogul asking if she needed to remain within the US, providing assist getting a spot on a New York University course.
She agreed to see him once more as she didn’t need any hassle. “He asked me if I’m mad, I said no. I had to find something diplomatic.”
“I remember he was holding me, kissing me, he said ‘I’ll see you later’,” Keul informed the Mail. “When you are with sick people you have to stay calm, because if you are not calm something very bad can happen. I tried to be as normal as possible and lie in my replies.”
Keul recalled that it was the start of the pageant and it might have been conspicuous to depart then and he or she must clarify why.
“I was in a foreign country. I was scared that I could not go home, or I couldn’t come back. I was scared of everything, and when you’re scared, you say whatever it takes to save yourself.”
Keul informed her story to the Mail earlier than former Sports Illustrated mannequin Stacey Williams claimed final week she had been groped by Trump when taken to fulfill him by her then-boyfriend Jeffrey Epstein in 1993.
The former Swiss pageant queen additionally recollects Epstein being near Trump and attending pageant occasions the place he tried to persuade her to return to Mar-a-Lago — insisting he would pay for every part.
“He was very explicit. He said, ‘You know I can take care of you. We organize many parties with Don. I take care of everything.’ He was really insisting,” recalled Keul.
“He said he’s organizing the party at Mar-a-Lago with Don. It was clear he was some kind of henchman … I thought, if he wants me that badly to come, he wants me to do something for that.”
Keul’s story is backed up by her pal Pascal Claivaz, a Swiss author, who stated she informed him concerning the incident round 2004.
The encounter additionally bears a resemblance to the accounts of different girls who’ve accused Trump of sexual impropriety — most notably E Jean Carroll, whom Trump was discovered accountable for sexually abusing in a division retailer in New York within the mid-Nineteen Nineties.
The Trump marketing campaign’s nationwide press secretary Karoline Leavitt informed the Mail that Keul’s accusations had been “false” and had been planted to distract from accusations towards Kamala Harris’s husband Doug Emhoff.
“Fake allegations like this are a disservice to women who are truly victims of assault, like the women in Doug Emhoff’s past,” Levitt stated.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-sexual-assault-1993-epstein-beatrice-keul-b2638620.html