XXX Star Accuses Donald Trump Of Making Unwanted Advances In 2006
LOS ANGELES (CBSLA.com) — Adult film actress Jessica Drake on Saturday accused Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump of making unwelcome advances on her in 2006.
She is the latest in a series of women who have accused Trump of sexual impropriety.
At a press conference at attorney Gloria Allred's Wilshire office, Drake said she met Trump in 2006 at a charity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe and accepted an invitation to visit him in his hotel room that night.
In a 2005 interview with then "Access Hollywood" anchor Billy Bush, Trump bragged that women enjoyed his coming on to him because he was a celebrity. In a hot mic moment never meant to air, Trump boasted that sometimes he grabbed them by the genitals without permission and just starts "to kiss them." The outtakes of that interview hit the Washington Post on Oct. 7 of this year sending the Trump campaign into a PR-nightmare tailspin.
In the second presidential debate, moderator Anderson Cooper asked Trump if he was just talking or actually engaged in this behavior. Trump said then that it was just talk.
That denial led to Drake and more than ten others to come forward and say that Trump did indeed grope, grab of kiss them without their permission.
Drake says she arrived at Trump's room with two other women because she didn't want to go alone, and Trump "grabbed each of us tightly and kissed each one of us" without their consent.
After talking for a while, she said she left the room and Trump reached her later by phone to invite her back. When she refused, Drake said that Trump offered her money, but she demurred by saying she had to work.
Trump has denied all accusers' claims (including a PEOPLE magazine writer who said Trump kissed her while a pregnant Melania waited upstairs), and said at a rally Saturday that he would be suing the women after the election.
The Trump campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Drake's accusation.
