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Beatrice Keul becomes second person in as many weeks to allege assault, just days before election
A former beauty queen has claimed Donald Trump “jumped” on her and groped her in the 1990s.
Beatrice Keul said she was forced to fight off the billionaire, whom she described as a “Jekyll and Hyde character”, after she was invited up to his suite in a New York hotel in 1993.
It marks the second such accusation against the Republican presidential candidate in recent weeks, after a former model claimed he groped her at Trump Tower the same year.
Ms Keul, then 21 years old and visiting from Switzerland, said she believed that Trump simply wanted to talk to her when he invited her to his suite in his Plaza Hotel in Manhattan.
“When I entered, he jumped on me,” she told the Daily Mail. “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.”
Ms Keul, who is six foot one, attempted to shove off and distract Trump, who was then in his mid-forties.
“I think my size saved me… I tried everything I could. Finally, I said ‘let’s talk first’ or something like that, then he slowed down,” she continued.
“Then he held my hand, he kissed me, he asked me if I wanted to drink something, he asked me to sit down.
“It was a bit Jekyll and Hyde. I didn’t know how to react.”
Ms Keul reportedly received an invitation to a beauty pageant run by Trump after winning second place at the 1992 Miss Switzerland contest in Zurich and reaching the final round of Miss Europe the same year.
After taking part in pageant events at Trump’s Castle casino in Atlantic City, she travelled with the 50 other contestants to the Plaza Hotel in Manhattan to meet the billionaire.
Trump is said to have introduced himself by saying: “How nice to meet you finally”. He talked to her for 10 minutes before an employee told her he wanted a private meeting in his suite.
Ms Keul said she was telling her story days before the election on Nov 5 because she had recently found the documents from her trip at her home in Zurich, Switzerland.
The Trump campaign said in a statement to the newspaper that the claims were “false”.
Last week, Stacey Williams, a former Sports Illustrated model, claimed Trump groped her at Trump Tower in 1993, putting his hands “all over my breasts” as well as her waist and buttocks.
She made the allegations on a call with a group called Survivors for Kamala, which is made up of survivors of sexual abuse supporting Kamala Harris in the election contest against Trump.
The Trump campaign claimed that the story was fake and had been “contrived” by Ms Harris’s team.