Stories of 11 women who have accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct

Several women have accused US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump of sexual advances and groping. Among his accusers are a Miss Utah beauty pageant winner, a businesswoman, a reporter, and a receptionist. He has denied the accusations.

In a 2005 video that emerged on October 7, Trump boasted about grabbing women by the genitals and kissing them without their consent. In the second US presidential debate on October 9, he said he was embarrassed by what he called locker room talk but that he had not engaged in the conduct he described in the video.

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Responding to several women's allegations of groping and other misconduct, reported by The New York Times and other media on Thursday, Trump said on October 13 the claims were "absolutely false".

 

Following are some of the allegations against Trump:

* Jill Harth Houraney, a former Trump beauty pageant business associate, filed a $125 million lawsuit in 1997 against Trump alleging that on January 24, 1993 at Trump's Florida estate, Mar-a-Lago, Trump "forcibly removed plaintiff to a bedroom, whereupon defendant subjected plaintiff to defendant's unwanted sexual advances." A Trump spokesperson was quoted on October 7 in The New York Times as saying, "Mr Trump denies each and every statement made by Ms Harth." The lawsuit was dropped in May 1997.

* Temple Taggart McDowell, a former Miss Utah, was quoted by The New York Times in a report published on May 15 as saying that Trump "kissed me directly on the lips" when the two were introduced in 1997, when she was 21. Taggart told the Times, "I thought, 'Oh my God, gross.'" The Times' story said Trump disputed the report and added that Trump said "he is reluctant to kiss strangers on the lips".

* Jessica Leeds, 74, recounted in an video interview posted on The New York Times' website on October 12 that Trump grabbed her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt on a flight to New York in or around 1980 when she was a 38 year-old travelling businesswoman. In a tweet and in a later speech on October 13, Trump called the Times' story a total fabrication. 

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The phony story in the failing @nytimes is a TOTAL FABRICATION. Written by same people as last discredited story on women. WATCH!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 13, 2016

* Rachel Crooks, formerly a receptionist at a real estate firm, told The New York Times in a report published on October 12 that Trump "kissed me directly on the mouth" in 2005 at Trump Tower in Manhattan when she was 22.  Rachel Crooks,  Natasha Stoynoff, Melania Trump

* Natasha Stoynoff, a reporter, wrote a first-person account that described Trump kissing her without her consent in December 2005 at Trump's Florida home Mar-a-Lago while she was working on an article about him and his third wife, Melania, for People magazine. In the account published by People on October 12, she said "he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat." In a tweet and in a later speech on October 13, Trump said the episode described did not happen.

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

* Mindy McGillivray was cited in an article published in The Palm Beach Post on October12 that while she was a 23-year-old photographer's assistant at a January 24, 2003, event at Trump's Mar-a-Lago, Trump had grabbed her buttocks. The Palm Beach Post cited a Trump spokesperson as saying, "This allegation lacks any merit or veracity."

* Summer Zervos, who competed on the fifth season of The Apprentice in 2006, appeared at a news conference with celebrity attorney Gloria Allred in Los Angeles, saying Trump kissed her, touched her breast and tried to get her to lie down on a bed with him during a meeting about a possible job. "He put me in an embrace and I tried to push him away. I pushed his chest to put space between us and I said, 'Come on man, get real.' He repeated my words back to me, 'Get real,' as he began thrusting his genitals," Zervos said.

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* Earlier Friday, the Washington Post published an interview with a woman who said Trump put his hand up her skirt in a crowded New York nightclub in the early 1990s in an unwanted advance. "He did touch my vagina through my underwear, absolutely," Kristin Anderson said in a video interview on the newspaper's website. "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," she told the newspaper.

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* In a report published on October 15, Cathy Heller, 63, of New York, told the Guardian newspaper  that in or around 1997, Trump kissed her on the lips upon first meeting her during a Mother's Day brunch at his Florida estate. She told the newspaper she leaned away, then turned her head, and he kissed the side of her mouth.

* Yoga instructor Karena Virginia, at a news conference in New York City on Thursday, said Trump approached her outside the US Open tennis tournament in 1998.  They had never met, and she was 27 years old, she said. She alleged that Trump commented on her legs and then touched her breast before she was able to get into a car and be driven away. 

Trump campaign spokeswoman Jessica Ditto said the accusation was a publicity-seeking attack coordinated with Clinton, and added: "Voters are tired of these circus-like antics and reject these fictional stories."

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* At a news conference in Los Angeles on October 22, Jessica Drake, an adult film actress, said that she met Trump 10 years ago at a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe, California. She was then invited to his suite after which she went there along with some her women friends. She alleged that Trump grabbed her and two other unidentified women tightly and kissed them without their "permission". Later, an unknown person called on Trump's behalf, inviting her to come back to his room alone, which she refused. She was later offered $10,000 for coming to his room.