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The House Judiciary Democrats’ 53 Page Trump/Epstein Report (Part 4) (10/27/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone and welcome to another episode of the
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  Speaker 1: Epstein Chronicles. In this episode, we're going to dive right
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  Speaker 1: back in to the Democrat report on Jeffrey Epstein and
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump. Witness accounts, 11 women who linked Donald Trump
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  Speaker 1: to Jeffrey Epstein. There's reason to believe that this administration's
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  Speaker 1: cover-up of the Epstein files is driven, at least in part,
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  Speaker 1: by a desire to prevent Donald Trump's own misconduct from
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  Speaker 1: ever coming to light. Donald Trump's been accused by at
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  Speaker 1: least eight women of engaging in assault or other improper
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  Speaker 1: behavior in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein and Trump also
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  Speaker 1: each had a sexual relationship with at least three other
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  Speaker 1: young women at the time when Epstein's criminal activity was
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  Speaker 1: at its height. Together, these accounts reveal a darkly competitive
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  Speaker 1: relationship between the two men centered on taking advantage of women,
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  Speaker 1: especially aspiring models eager to break into the realm of
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  Speaker 1: of New York fashion. Beatrice Kuhl, 24 years old. In
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  Speaker 1: November of 1993, Beatrice, a young Swiss model and financial
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  Speaker 1: services professional, was recruited by a young woman named Jill
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  Speaker 1: Hearth to attend the Donald J. Trump American Dream pageant
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  Speaker 1: for 16 to 22-year-olds in Atlantic City and New York.
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  Speaker 1: According to an interview with committee staff at a press
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  Speaker 1: luncheon at the event in then the Trump-owned Plaza Hotel,
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump approached Kuhl and introduced himself saying, Finally, we
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  Speaker 1: meet Mrs. Kuhl, mispronouncing her last name as Kuhl. During
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  Speaker 1: their at least 15-minute introductory conversation, Trump promised her that
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  Speaker 1: he would arrange a visa for her, stating that Apollo,
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  Speaker 1: a reference to Apollo Zampoli, would take care of that.
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  Speaker 1: Trump further stated that he personally would ensure her acceptance
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  Speaker 1: into New York University, NYU, and he repeatedly offered to
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  Speaker 1: take care of her and arrange her travel insisting either,
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  Speaker 1: I will take care of you, or, when she said
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  Speaker 1: she could handle her own visa, no, no, my friend
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  Speaker 1: Paolo will take care of you. According to her, after
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  Speaker 1: Trump stepped away from their conversation, Epstein immediately approached her saying,
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  Speaker 1: I'm Jeffrey, Don's best friend. Epstein then spent at least
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  Speaker 1: 10 minutes talking to her, all the time looking over
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  Speaker 1: and grinning at Trump, who had remained in the room
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  Speaker 1: and was watching their conversation from afar. Epstein also made
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  Speaker 1: similar promises as Trump and asked her to attend a
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  Speaker 1: party at Mar-a-Lago in the coming months, saying, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I can take care of you. We organized many parties
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  Speaker 1: with Don. Epstein, like Trump, stated that all of her
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  Speaker 1: needs would be met. Flights, accommodations, you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: worry about anything. Later that day, Trump's representative invited her
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  Speaker 1: to go upstairs at the Plaza Hotel to meet with Trump.
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  Speaker 1: Believing this meeting to be a lucky break for the
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  Speaker 1: purpose of furthering her career and education, she accompanied Trump's
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  Speaker 1: representatives upstairs. He ushered her into a suite, where upon entering,
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  Speaker 1: Trump reportedly grabbed her from behind and forcibly raped her,
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  Speaker 1: in the process tearing her dress and causing bleeding and
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  Speaker 1: bruising on multiple parts of her body. She described the
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  Speaker 1: rape as brutal. Following the assault, according to her report,
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  Speaker 1: Trump sat her at the edge of the bed, repeated
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  Speaker 1: his promise to arrange for a visa and NYU admission,
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  Speaker 1: and made her a promise she would keep quiet, saying
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  Speaker 1: the show must go on. She reports that she finished
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  Speaker 1: the pageant in a terrified daze as her passport had
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  Speaker 1: been taken from her on arrival. She didn't ask for
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  Speaker 1: her passport to be returned before the contest was over,
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  Speaker 1: lest she indicate to Trump that something was wrong. During
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  Speaker 1: the pageant, she was also summoned, along with four other models,
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  Speaker 1: to a private audition with John Casablancas, who made her
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  Speaker 1: walk for him and made similar promises about taking care
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  Speaker 1: of her. She returned to Switzerland, declining to participate in
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  Speaker 1: an additional Trump-sponsored pageant in Hawaii several weeks later. Several
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  Speaker 1: months after the assault, Trump called her in Switzerland and
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  Speaker 1: reiterated his offer to set her up with a visa
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  Speaker 1: and admission to NYU. She declined. Several aspects of her
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  Speaker 1: experience at the Donald J. Trump American Dream pageant stand
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  Speaker 1: out and reinforce the credibility of her claims. First, multiple witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: including Kuhl, have explained that she was not the only
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  Speaker 1: young woman Trump was interested in that evening. At the
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  Speaker 1: same pageant, she met an 18-year-old Czech contestant named Terezi
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  Speaker 1: who was staying with Ivana Trump and had grown up
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  Speaker 1: in the same village as Ivana. Terezi informed her that
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  Speaker 1: Terezi would win the pageant due to her closeness with
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump and stated she intended to marry him. Similarly,
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  Speaker 1: in 1997, Jill Hearth, the organizer of the contest, claimed
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  Speaker 1: in a sexual assault lawsuit against Trump that on or
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  Speaker 1: around November 20, 1993, Trump demanded she provide him with
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  Speaker 1: access to a 17-year-old contestant from Czechoslovakia who was a
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  Speaker 1: contestant in the Calendar Girl competition in who Trump referred
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  Speaker 1: to as a sex object. This description of a young
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  Speaker 1: Czech model largely matches the descriptions of Terezi, who was
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  Speaker 1: brought to New York for the Calendar Girl competition the
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  Speaker 1: last day of which was November 20, 1993. Furthermore, Hart's
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  Speaker 1: complaint detailed how Trump called several models for four years
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  Speaker 1: after the Calendar Girl competition to offer them positions and
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  Speaker 1: or career advancement help in return for sexual favors. much
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  Speaker 1: the same way he repeated his offer of a visa
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  Speaker 1: to her months after the competition. Second, the tactic of
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  Speaker 1: promising an NYU education to lure victims was remarkably similar
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  Speaker 1: to Epstein's own well-practiced modus operandi. Numerous women have come
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  Speaker 1: forward to the House Judiciary Committee to explain how Epstein
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  Speaker 1: used the promise of an NYU education to lure the
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  Speaker 1: men and then control his victims. Beatrice would have had
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  Speaker 1: little way of knowing this when she reported Trump's similarly
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  Speaker 1: manipulative promise to arrange for an NYU placement to the
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  Speaker 1: media in October 2024, months before any public report of
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  Speaker 1: the connection between NYU and Epstein's survivors had surfaced. Similarly,
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  Speaker 1: the follow-up call to Beatrice in Switzerland itself matched Epstein's
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  Speaker 1: usual practice. Epstein's assistant from the 1990s also reported that
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  Speaker 1: Epstein routinely called foreign models to invite them to the U.S.,
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  Speaker 1: stating that on dozens of occasions in the mid-90s, the
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  Speaker 1: financier instructed her to call a pageant winner from somewhere
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  Speaker 1: in the world and invite her to visit him in Florida.
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  Speaker 1: Trump and Epstein seemed to share the same playbook for
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  Speaker 1: recruiting and abusing women, all the way down to the
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  Speaker 1: university they promised admission to and the timing of their
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  Speaker 1: follow-up phone calls. Third and finally, the presence of John
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  Speaker 1: Casablancas and Epstein at the pageant, match other accounts of
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  Speaker 1: Donald Trump's activities in and around the modeling world during
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  Speaker 1: this time, and indicate that the purpose of the event
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  Speaker 1: was not actually to further any woman's modeling career, but
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  Speaker 1: to find beautiful and vulnerable young victims. Indeed, Donald Trump's
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  Speaker 1: statement that Paolo Zampolli would provide Beatrice with a visa
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  Speaker 1: and Trump would arrange acceptance to NYU conforms to the
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  Speaker 1: standard practice in which Zampolli routinely provided these types of
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  Speaker 1: favors for other models, including Donald Trump's eventual wife. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: John Casablancas' private audience with Beatrice and other models not
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  Speaker 1: only indicates his and Trump's shared recruitment of women, but
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  Speaker 1: the danger of these pageants where serial sexual abusers like Trump, Epstein,
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  Speaker 1: and Casablancas lurk behind every corner. Stacey Williams, 25 years old.
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  Speaker 1: A Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, Williams dated Epstein in the
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  Speaker 1: early 90s after meeting him at a Christmas party Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump hosted in 1992 at the Plaza Hotel. During a
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  Speaker 1: visit to Trump Tower the following year, she reportedly accompanied
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  Speaker 1: Epstein to Trump's office where Trump groped her. In her words,
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  Speaker 1: his hands were all over me. They were on my breasts,
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  Speaker 1: they were on my butt, they were on, you know,
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  Speaker 1: my hips, up and down. Williams said that Epstein and
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  Speaker 1: Trump continued talking while Trump's hands were on her, smiling
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  Speaker 1: and grinning. Once they left Trump's office, according to Williams,
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  Speaker 1: Epstein berated her for letting Trump touch her. CNN interviewed
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  Speaker 1: three women who confirmed that Williams informed them about the
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  Speaker 1: incident with Trump and Epstein in 2006, in 2015, and
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  Speaker 1: in 2018, respectively. Williams later said about the incident and
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  Speaker 1: the Epstein-Trump friendship, I just think it was trophy hunting.
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  Speaker 1: I think Jeffrey liked that he had the Sports Illustrated
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  Speaker 1: model who had this name, and Trump was pursuing me.
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  Speaker 1: As in the case of Beatrice, Donald Trump reached out
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  Speaker 1: to his victim after the assault. Several months later, Donald
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  Speaker 1: Trump sent Williams a postcard of Palm Beach that highlighted
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  Speaker 1: the Mar-a-Lago club in the foreground. Stacey, you're home away
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  Speaker 1: from home. Love, Donald. Jill Hearth, 31 years old. Jill
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  Speaker 1: Harth recruited young models to join Donald Trump's Calendar Girl
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  Speaker 1: competitions where he hunted for young women. She was also
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  Speaker 1: one of the first women to accuse him of sexual assault.
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  Speaker 1: In 1997, Harth filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump claiming
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  Speaker 1: that in 1993, Trump hosted a party where he allegedly
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  Speaker 1: forcefully removed Harth from the public area of Mar-a-Lago and
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  Speaker 1: forced her into a bedroom belonging to defendant daughter Ivanka.
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  Speaker 1: wherein Trump forcibly kissed, fondled, and restrained Hearth from leaving
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  Speaker 1: against Hearth's will and despite her protests. Hearth's former spouse
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  Speaker 1: told the New York Times that despite there being numerous
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  Speaker 1: models at the party, Trump and Epstein appeared to be
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  Speaker 1: the only two men in attendance. Hearth settled the lawsuit
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  Speaker 1: as a condition of Donald Trump's settling and agreeing to
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  Speaker 1: a financial payment in a relation to a separate, unrelated
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  Speaker 1: lawsuit brought by Hearth's spouse. Hearth also reported several other
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  Speaker 1: instances of Donald Trump assaulting or seeking sexual access to
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  Speaker 1: other women. In addition to the incident with a Czech
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  Speaker 1: model described above, Hearth also detailed Trump's sexual assault of
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  Speaker 1: a young model, Lauren Petrella, the same evening that Trump
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  Speaker 1: assaulted Hearth in 1993. According to Hearth, Donald Trump snuck
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  Speaker 1: uninvited into Petrella's bedroom in the pre-dawn hours of a
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  Speaker 1: party at Mar-a-Lago. A startled Petrella awoke and inquired of
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  Speaker 1: Trump why he was in her bed. A leering, groping
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  Speaker 1: Trump replied, You said you don't sleep with men on
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  Speaker 1: the first date. Now, it's the second date, and here
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  Speaker 1: I am. An email released by the House Oversight Committee
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  Speaker 1: shows that in 2015, when a New York Times reporter
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  Speaker 1: emailed Epstein looking for juicy info on Epstein and Trump's
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  Speaker 1: years as close friends, Epstein responded with contact information for Petrella,
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  Speaker 1: saying he was... in the photo of Donald and girls
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  Speaker 1: in bikinis in my kitchen. All right, folks, we're going
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  Speaker 1: to wrap up right here. And in the next episode,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to pick up with Jane Doe number one.
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  Speaker 1: All the information that goes with this episode can be
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