‘$10,000 offered to come alone to suite’
An adult film actress yesterday accused Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump or someone acting on his behalf of offering her US$10,000 and the use of his private jet if she would agree to come alone to his hotel suite at night after a golf tournament in Lake Tahoe in 2006.
Jessica Drake, who spoke at a news conference alongside lawyer Gloria Allred, said she met Trump while working a booth at the tournament for her employer, Wicked Pictures. Trump then invited her and two other women to his suite in the evening, where, while wearing pyjamas, Drake said he kissed the women each in turn without their permission.
According to Drake, after the group left his suite, a man called and asked her to return alone. When she declined, Drake said she was then called by Trump, who asked to her to come to his suite for dinner and a party. “What do you want?” she said he asked. “How much?”
Later, she said Trump, or a man calling on his behalf, called again, this time with the monetary offer, which she said she declined.
Trump's campaign called Drake's account “totally false and ridiculous” saying Trump “does not know this person, does not remember this person and would have no interest in ever knowing her”. Drake is the 11th woman to have spoken publicly about unwanted sexual advances from Trump in the past fornight.