A former key figure in Sports Illustrated, the 56-year-old American has been in the spotlight since she claimed to have been attacked by Donald Trump in 1993.
Donald Trump is once again targeted by sexual assault accusations. This time, it is a model met through Jeffrey Epstein during the 1990s who affirms it, as revealed by Guardian this Thursday, October 24. Now aged 56, the woman named Stacey Williams accuses the former President of the United States of touching committed within Trump Tower in 1993, as part of a “twisted game” between the business mogul real estate and financial wealth.
Star the Sports Illustrated
Across the Atlantic, all eyes are now on Stacey Williams. As we can read in the Daily Mail she was born in Dallas, Pennsylvania, on April 15, 1968. Her modeling career began in the late 1980s, but it was especially in the 1990s that Stacey Williams found success, becoming one of the most prominent swimsuit models of her time.
Stacey Williams at the Ziegfeld Theater. (New York, December 12, 1994.)
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From 1992 to 1998, the 1m80 American was used to appearing in the pages or on the cover of the magazine Sports Illustrated alongside Tyra Banks, Christie Brinkley, Heidi Klum and Rebecca Romijn. Still according to the Daily Mailin 2013, Stacey Williams appeared in the special issue of Sports Illustrated which celebrated the 50 most memorable models, having posed in swimsuits in their pages. In addition to modeling, she had a brief career in cinema. She thus appears in a certain number of small films, including The Dogwalker (1999), and also had a small role in Jerry Maguire (1996).
On the private side, she would be married to a certain Evan Strauss and would have had a child with him, we read on his IMDb profile. The family reportedly lives in Los Angeles.
Touching at Trump Tower
If Stacey Williams is in the news again today, it’s because she says in the columns of Guardian having been attacked by Donald Trump. She said she first met him in 1992 at a Christmas party after being introduced to him by Jeffrey Epstein, who she believed to be a good friend of the New York real estate developer. “It then became very clear that he and Donald were very, very good friends and spent a lot of time together,” the ex-model said.
The alleged touching allegedly took place a few months later, in late winter or early spring of 1993, when Jeffrey Epstein suggested that the young woman take a break from their walk to visit Donald Trump at the Trump Tower. Always at Guardianshe says that, a few moments after her arrival, Donald Trump allegedly pulled her towards her, before putting his hands “all over my breasts”, as well as on her waist and her buttocks. She then confides that she froze because she was “deeply disturbed”, and claims that she then thought she saw Donald Trump smile at Jeffrey Epstein. As a reminder, the financier, with powerful economic and political networks in the United States and abroad, was subsequently himself accused of having sexually assaulted and raped young girls. His suicide by hanging in prison in New York in August 2019, however, put an end to public action against him.
Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for Donald Trump’s campaign team, denied the allegations in a statement. “These accusations, made by a former Barack Obama activist (…) are completely false,” we can read. “It is obvious that this story was made up by the Harris campaign team.”
