UAnother woman said Tuesday she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump on a plane in the late 1970s, during a civil trial in New York where author E. John Carroll prosecuted.
Jessica Leeds, 81, who went silent in 2016 in the New York Times, described in Manhattan federal civil court how she was kicked out of her first-class seat on a flight to New York “in 1978-79.” Because the businessman tried to kiss her neck and then put his hands on her body.
“There was no discussion, it just came out of nowhere (…) he tried to kiss me, tried to grab my breasts,” said Mrs. Leeds opened a civil trial last week for rape and defamation. Compensation from Donald Trump.
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Before nine jurors, Jessica Leeds, Mr. Trump explained under oath that he got the strength to get up and leave when he “put his hands under my blouse.”
“It seemed like an eternity to me” when it happened in a few “seconds”, added the woman, who was called to testify by Ms Carroll’s lawyers, who accuse the former US president of sexually assaulting her in the dressing room. A New York department store in 1996.
Donald Trump, who did not appear at the hearing, denies the allegations and says he has never met the former Elle columnist.
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Donald Trump has not been charged with sexual assault in this case. She filed the complaint last November under a New York state law that provides a one-year statute of limitations for sexual assault in criminally prohibited sexual assault cases.
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