A FORMER model has accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her at the 1997 US Open. Amy Dorris, who was 24 at the time, alleges that Trump forced his tongue down her throat and groped her in his VIP box at the New York tournament. Speaking to the Guardian, Dorris said the now-president forced himself […]
A FORMER model has accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her at the 1997 US Open.
Amy Dorris, who was 24 at the time, alleges that Trump forced his tongue down her throat and groped her in his VIP box at the New York tournament.
Speaking to the Guardian, Dorris said the now-president forced himself on her outside a bathroom in the box.
Responding to the paper via his lawyers, Trump vehemently denied ever having harassed of behaved inappropriately towards Dorris.
Dorris, said that, after accosting her, Trump “just shoved his tongue down my throat and I was pushing him off.”
“And then that’s when his grip became tighter and his hands were very gropey and all over my butt, my breasts, my back, everything,” she said.
“I was in his grip, and I couldn’t get out of it.
“It felt like there were tentacles on me that I couldn’t rip off.
“I was trying to get his arms off of me and they would not come off because I wasn’t strong enough.
“You just picture those suction cups on an octopus and they’re stuck on you. You’re trapped. That’s how I felt.”
Dorris, now 48, is the latest of at least two dozen women who have accused Trump of different forms of sexual misconduct, ranging from harassment to rape.
Numerous pictures that she says were taken around the time of the incident show her posing with Trump, and her account was reportedly verified by a number of people she spoke to about what happened.
Those people include Dorris’s mother and a friend as well as other friend and therapist Dorris confided in in the years since.
She told the Guardian that she thought about coming forward in 2016, when Trump first ran for the presidency, but wanted to protect her family.
“Now I feel like my girls are about to turn 13 years old and I want them to know that you don’t let anybody do anything to you that you don’t want,” she said.
Dorris said that in 1997 she was living in Boca Raton, Florida, often going to Miami as part of her work as a model.
She was introduced to Trump after being taken to New York by her then-boyfriend, fashion and lifestyle published Jason Binn, who was a close friend of Trump’s.
She describes meeting Trump at the famous Trump Tower building in Manhattan before departing to attend the US Open.
Dorris says the assault occurred when she left the group to use a bathroom, which was behind a partitioning wall within the box.
She says that Trump was stood outside the bathroom when she emerged, and that he advanced on her following a short exchange.
She recounted telling him, “No, get away”, but said he “didn’t care”.
Representatives for the president have been approached for comment.
