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United States former president and Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump is facing fresh accusations of groping a former model in the presence of late sexual abuser Jeffrey Epstein in Trump Tower in 1993. 

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Stacey Williams was a professional model in the 1990s and had for the first time been introduced to Trump by Epstein at a Christmas party in 1992.

Williams claimed that she had casually dated Epstein for some months and had found that "he and Donald were really, really good friends and spent a lot of time together."

Speaking about the groping incident to The Guardian, Williams said that in 1993, Epstein took her to Trump Tower where she faced the alleged sexual misconduct. 

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The former model said that moments after she entered the Trump Tower, the former president pulled her towards him and began groping her. Williams said that Trump placed his hands “all over my breasts” along with her waist and her buttocks. 

Williams said at that moment she froze as she was “deeply confused” and further alleged that she saw Trump and Epstein smiling at each other.

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Reacting to the allegations, press secretary for Donald Trump’s campaign Karoline Leavitt said, “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.”

Felt like a piece of meat in a “twisted game”, says Williams 

Williams said that after the alleged incident she immediately left the Trump Tower and felt angry towards Epstein. 

“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?’” Williams said on the Zoom call.

“He made me feel so disgusting and I remember being so utterly confused,” she added, further saying that she felt she was part of a “twisted game”.

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“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,” the former model said while speaking to the Guardian.

Later, Epstein was convicted of multiple sex offences and ended up taking his own life in prison in 2019.

(With inputs from agencies)