What the butler didn't see: Trump's former aide denies People journalist's claims he groped her at Mar-a-Lago mansion - as his old boss fights off accusations from NINE different women
- Trump denies claims he sexually assaulted Natasha Stoynoff in 2005
- The journalist alleged he propositioned her while she interviewed him
- In a scathing article for People magazine, she said his butler intervened
- Anthony Senecal, Trump's long-term employee, denied her account
- He said no such incident ever took place at Trump's Mar-a-Lago home
Donald Trump's former butler has come to his defense to insist he never groped a People magazine journalist at his Mar-a-Lago home as accused.
Natasha Stoynoff is one of nine women to have leveled damning accusations against the Republican presidential candidate in the past week.
In a scathing article earlier this week, she wrote that the billionaire pushed himself upon her and kissed her without her consent while she was visiting him at the Palm Beach mansion to interview him and his then new wife Melania.
Mrs Trump has threatened legal action against the journalist. Trump's defense was to tell supporters: 'Look at her,' suggesting he would never have found her attractive enough to proposition.
On Saturday, 85-year-old Anthony Senecal joined the chorus of denial, telling The Palm Beach Post: 'That never happened. Come on. That's just bull crap.'
Anthony Senecal, Donald Trump's long-serving butler, has denied claims the billionaire sexually assaulted a People magazine journalist in 2005
Stoynoff alleged that the billionaire 'forced his tongue down her throat' while Melania, who was pregnant with their only child Barron at the time, changed upstairs during the interview in December 2005.
'Trump shut the door behind us. I turned around, and within seconds he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat,' she wrote.
She said his 'long-term butler', Senecal, interrupted the encounter.
Natasha Stoynoff said the candidate forced his tongue down her throat as they took a break from an interview she was conducting in December 2005
'I was grateful when Trump’s longtime butler burst into the room a minute later, as I tried to unpin myself.
'The butler informed us that Melania would be down momentarily, and it was time to resume the interview.'
Senecal denied her account over the weekend, lumping her into a category of women he said were 'jumping on the train' by airing accusations of sexual misconduct against his boss.
'Everybody is just jumping on the train. I think you’re going to see even more of it between now and the election.
'But these incidents never happened.'
Senecal, who worked at the Mar-a-Lago property for 60 years and with Trump for 30, was investigated by the secret service earlier this year for making death threats towards President Barack Obama.
He referred to Michelle Obama as 'Sasquatch' and called for the pair to be lynched in rambling Facebook posts, Vanity Fair reported.
In May, Trump's campaign condemned the comments and said he no longer worked for the businessman.
'He does not work at Mar-a-Lago and hasn't in many years. We totally disavow and condemn these horrible statements,' they said.
Senecal was the subject of a glowing interview with The New York Times in March, posing throughout the house in his new role as its 'unofficial historian'.
Stoynoff was interviewing the businessman at his property in Mar-a-Lago, Palm Beach, Florida (above). Senecal, who she said intervened, said her account was 'complete bull crap'
Senecal worked at the house for 60 years and serviced Trump for 30 of them. He was investigated by the secret service earlier this year after making threats towards President Obama
Senecal said the women accusing his old boss of sexual misconduct were 'jumping on the train'. They are seen above together in a photograph taken during his 30 years with the billionaire
Trump has faced separate accusations of sexual impropriety from nine different women in the past week.
The most recent allegation came from Cathy Heller, a 63-year-old mother-of-three who says he forcibly kissed her on the mouth in 1997 at a Mother's Day luncheon in Mar-a-Lago.
She told The Guardian the incident 'shook' her. Trump's campaign denied it immediately.
Former Apprentice contestant Summer Zervos said he kissed her 'open mouthed' and 'thrust his genitals on her' in 2007.
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Trump's campaign issued an immediate denial of her claim on Friday and on Saturday released an email sent by his accuser in April this year to prove his innocence.
In it she expressed her desire to 'reconnect' with the businessman.
Zervos, who gave a tearful account of the alleged assault while flanked by high-profile attorney Gloria Allred, said the email was merely an attempt on her part to 'clear the air'.
Her cousin cast further doubt on her accusations on Saturday, revealing that she only had 'good things' to say about Trump until he turned down an invitation to her restaurant.
Senecal was investigated by the secret service earlier this year for making death threats against Barack Obama. He is seen above proudly sporting a t-shirt referencing a 'wall' to keep out immigrants, his former employer's face illustrated peering over it
Summer Zervos, who also claims the billionaire sexually assaulted her, had her accusations undermined by the release of an email in which she expressed her desire to 'reconnect' with him years after the alleged attack
Zervos's cousin, John Barry, contacted the Trump campaign to share his assessment of her allegation
'She has praised the good things he's done for her life, and in fact she converted her friends and our family to become Trump supporters even though we’ve never been active in politics before.
'That was until Summer invited Mr. Trump to her restaurant during the primary and he said no,' John Barry said in a statement.
'I think Summer wishes she could still be on reality TV, and in an effort to get that back she’s saying all of these negative things about Mr. Trump....
'I can only imagine that Summer’s actions today are nothing more than an attempt to regain the spotlight at Mr. Trump’s expense, and I don’t think it reflects well.'
Accusations Trump fondled and kissed a woman as they sat next to one another in first class on board a flight in 1979 were also undermined on Saturday.
Jessica Leeds, 74, likened Trump to an 'octopus', telling The New York Times: 'His hands were everywhere,' as she recalled the alleged incident.
At the time Ms Leeds was 38 and Trump was 39.
Jessica Leeds, now 74, (left on Thursday) said she was groped by the businessman as they sat next to each other on board a flight in 1979 when she was 38 (right)
Anthony Gilberthorpe (above with former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher) said he was also on the flight with Leeds and Trump but that the molestation she described never occurred
Trump's initial defense against some of the women's claims was that he would not have attacked them because they were not sexually attractive enough, telling supporters: 'Look at her' and 'she wouldn't be my first choice'
Anthony Gilberthorpe contacted the Trump campaign this week to refute her allegation, claiming he too was on the flight and witnessed no such attack.
'Not only did he not do so (and I was present at all times) but it was she that was the one being flirtatious,' he said, according to The New York Post.
Gilberthorpe, who is British and once made the unsubstantiated claim he provided children to UK politicians for 'sex parties', said the incident happened in '1980 or 1981'.
He described what both Leeds and Trump were wearing and said her claim that the 'guy across the aisle' witnessed her being molested was 'nonsense'.
'That I sat there — eyes bulging — and not intervening is nonsense,' he fumed.
In a string of unhinged Twitter posts on Saturday, Trump chalked the flood of accusations against him down to a conspiracy hatched by the media to 'elect Crooked Hillary'.
In an unhinged Twitter rant on Saturday, Trump said the accusations against him were false and had been peddled by the media as part of a conspiracy to elect his opponent, 'Crooked Hillary'
'Hillary Clinton should have been prosecuted and should be in jail. Instead she is running for president in what looks like a rigged election,' he ranted.
The tweets continued: 'This election is being rigged by the media pushing false and unsubstantiated charges, and outright lies, in order to elect Crooked Hillary!
'100% fabricated and made-up charges, pushed strongly by the media and the Clinton Campaign, may poison the minds of the American Voter. FIX!'
At the second presidential debate in St Louis, Missouri, on October 9, he stated unequivocally that he had never kissed nor made sexual advances on a woman without her consent.
The question, posed by moderator Anderson Cooper and the most eagerly anticipated subject of the debate, was prompted by the release of a 2005 video in which Trump boasted he could 'grab women by the p****' because he was a star.
The footage, filmed by Access Hollywood, sparked the retreat of dozens of Trump's GOP supporters and endorsers.
TIMELINE: WHEN DONALD TRUMP HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF ASSAULT, GROPING OR LEWD BEHAVIOR
1980 - Jessica Leeds
Jessica Leeds
Jessica Leeds, a 74-year-old former businesswoman who lives in Manhattan, told the New York Times on Wednesday she was 'assaulted' by Trump on a flight when she was 38.
Leeds explained how she was sat beside Trump in first class on a flight, when the Republican nominee lifted the arm-rest between then and allegedly began touching her.
'He was like an octopus,' she told the Times. 'His hands were everywhere.'
1989 - Ivana Trump
The Donald's first wife claimed she was 'violated' by him after a violent attack, documents filed as part of the couple's divorce claimed, according to the Daily Beast.
Ivana distanced herself from the claims last year when Trump started his campaign.
Early 1990s - Kristin Anderson
Kristin Anderson
Kristin Anderson was out with friends, chatting up a storm at a Manhattan nightspot, when she felt fingers creep up her miniskirt, slide up her inner thigh and then touch her vagina through her panties.
The man who touched her was none other than Donald Trump, Anderson - now 46 - told theWashington Post.
She said the incident took place in the early 1990s, when she was in her early twenties and an aspiring model.
1993 - Jill Harth
Jill Harth
Jill Harth, a makeup artist, accused Trump of 'attempted rape' stemming from an incident in 1993.
Harth told the Guardian the incident in question took place during a visit to Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion in January of that year.
'He pushed me up against the wall, and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress again,' she told the newspaper. 'I had to physically say: 'What are you doing? Stop it.''
1993 - Vendela Kirsebom
Vendela Kirsebom
Former supermodel Vendela Kirsebom exclusively told DailyMail.com that Donald Trump's 'vulgar' and 'sexist' remarks about the size of women's breasts forced her to switch tables at a White House dinner party.
The sports Illustrated cover model claims her night at a 1993 Vanity Fair event was ruined because she was sat next to the billionaire.
Recalling the 'excruciating' night, Kirsebom, 49, said: 'Everything he said was so vulgar.
'I couldn't listen to his nonsense for an entire night so I asked if I could be moved.'
1996 - Lisa Boyne
Lisa Boyne
Lisa Boyne, CEO of a health food company, claims that in the summer of 1996 she saw Trump make a series of women walk up and down a restaurant table so that he could announce whether they were wearing underwear.
'It was the most offensive scene I've ever been a part of,' she told The Huffington Post Thursday. 'I wanted to get the heck out of there.'
According to Boyne, she and friend Sonja Tremont - better known today as Sonja Morgan of 'Real Housewives of New York' - had been invited to dinner in Manhattan with Trump and late modelling agent John Casablancas.
1997 - Four Miss Teen USA contestants
Mariah Billado
Mariah Billado and three other contestants claimed to Buzzfeed that Trump walked into dressing rooms prior to the pageant while competitors were naked.
'I remember putting on my dress really quick because I was like, 'Oh my god, there's a man in here'.'
Bilado told the website, before adding Trump said something like: 'Don't worry, ladies, I've seen it all before'.
1997 - Miss USA contestant Temple Taggart
Temple Taggart
Temple Taggart, a former Miss Utah, told the New York Times earlier this year that Trump kissed her on the lips during the pageant.
'I thought, 'Oh my God, gross'... I think there were a few other girls that he kissed on the mouth. I was like 'Wow, that's inappropriate',' she told the newspaper.
Taggart has also sat down for an interview with NBC News.
'When I first heard the leaked tape, it's very unsettling... you don't want to hear anyone talking about women like that,' she said in a promotion clip for the interview.
1997 - Cathy Heller
Cathy Heller, now 63, claims the billionaire kissed her on the mouth without her consent in 1997 while she attended a Mother's Day luncheon with her family at Trump's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
She told The Guardian on Saturday: 'He took my hand, and grabbed me, and went for the lips,' she said.
She claims she held back but he persevered. 'And he said, ‘Oh, come on.’ He was strong. He grabbed me and went for my mouth and went for my lips.'
Trump denied the accusation, claiming she was motivated by a personal vendetta to have her family's membership fees reimbursed.
2000 - Miss USA contestant Bridget Sullivan
Bridget Sullivan
Bridget Sullivan told Buzzfeed earlier this year that the then-owner of the pageant walked through the backstage area to wish contestants good luck, despite the fact many of them were naked at the time.
'The time that he walked through the dressing rooms was really shocking. We were all naked,' Sullivan said.
She went on to describe Trump as a 'creepy uncle', saying he would 'hug you just a little low on your back.'
Buzzfeed spoke with four other contestants from that year - none whom remembered Trump walking through the dressing room when contestants were naked.
2001 - Miss USA contestant Tasha Dixon
Tasha Dixon
Tasha Dixon told CBS News earlier this year walked into the changing rooms at the pageant without warning, meaning many of the competitors were naked or not fully dressed.
'Our first introduction to him was when we were at the dress rehearsal and half naked changing into our bikinis,' Dixon said in an interview. 'He just came strolling right in.
'There was no second to put a robe on or any sort of clothing or anything. Some girls were topless. Other girls were naked.'
2003 - Mindy McGillivray
Mindy McGillivray
Mindy McGillivray, 36, told the Palm Beach Post that Trump grabbed her backside after she helped a photographer who was covering a concert at Trump's Mar-a-Lago mansion.
McGillivray, who was 23 at the time, said she was with Ken Davidoff at the Mar-a-Lago on January 24, 2003.
'All of a sudden I felt a grab, a little nudge. I think it's Ken's camera bag, that was my first instinct,' she told the newspaper.
'I turn around and there's Donald. He sort of looked away quickly.'
2004 - Trump discussed what he thought it would be like to have sex with a teenage Lindsay Lohan on the Howard Stern Show
Trump discussed what it would be like to have sex with a teenage Lindsay Lohan (pictured)
'She's probably deeply troubled and therefore great in bed,' Trump told Stern when asked by the shock jock if he could imagine bedding 'troubled teen' Lindsay Lohan.
Trump went on to say: 'How come the deeply troubled women, you know, deeply, deeply troubled, they're always the best in bed?'
At the time of the interview, Lohan was just 18-years-old. Trump was 58.
The conversation continued with Trump speaking about a friend he described as 'a great Playboy' and who he said only wants to date 'crazy' women.
2005 - Rachel Crooks
Rachel Crooks
Rachel Crooks was a 22-year-old working as a receptionist at Bayrock Group, a real estate company based in Trump Tower in Manhattan, when she says Trump kissed her on the mouth without permission while in an elevator in 2005.
'It was so inappropriate,' Ms. Crooks told the New York Times. 'I was so upset that he thought I was so insignificant that he could do that.'
Crooks told the newspaper the incident took place after she shook hands with Trump in an elevator and he allegedly refused to let go. She says he then began kissing her on the cheeks, before then kissing her lips.
2005 - Donald Trump admits he would 'inspect' pageant contestants backstage
Donald Trump bragged about the extra power he had during an interview with Howard Stern in April 2005, the tapes of which have been released by CNN.
'I'll tell you the funniest is that I'll go backstage before a show and everyone's getting dressed,' Trump said about the pageant.
'No men are anywhere, and I'm allowed to go in, because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it…. 'Is everyone OK'? You know, they're standing there with no clothes. 'Is everybody OK?'
'And you see these incredible looking women, and so I sort of get away with things like that.'
2005 - Trump brags about being able to grope women without consent to Billy Bush on the set of Access Hollywood
'You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful - I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait,' he was heard saying to Billy Bush on the set of Access Hollywood in 2005 in a recording published by the Washington Post last Friday.
'And when you're a star they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab them by the p****. You can do anything.'
2005 - Natasha Stoynoff
Natasha Stoynoff
Natasha Stoynoff recounted how she had traveled to Mar-a-Largo to interview Trump and his wife, Melania, in December 2005.
She said Donald took her into a room he really wanted to see, before forcing himself on her.
'We walked into that room alone, and Trump shut the door behind us. I turned around, and within seconds, he was pushing me against the wall, and forcing his tongue down my throat,' she wrote for People.
Stoynoff went on to say how she was rescued when a butler walked in, however when the two were alone again shortly after Trump told her they were 'going to have an affair'.
2007 - Summer Zervos - contestant on The Apprentice
Summer Zervos
Summer Zervos, who was a contestant on the fifth season of The Apprentice, said Trump groped and kissed her in his room at the Beverly Hills Hotel in 2007.
She claims that she reached out to Trump a year after she left the show to speak about possible business opportunities, and when she met with him he kissed her 'open mouthed' multiple times, and at one point placed his hand on her breast.
She claims he then had her lie in bed with him she said telling her he wanted to watch 'telly telly', but soon after began 'thrusting his genitals' at her despite her pleas asking him to stop.
Zervos broke down in tears throughout press conference, saying at one point: 'You do not have the right to treat women as sexual objects just because you are a star.'
2009 - Called Khloe Kardashian 'a fat piglet'
Trump made rude and offensive comments about Khloe Kardashian's physical appearance and weight while she filmed Celebrity Apprentice back in 2009, according to multiple people who worked on the set.
'He said: 'Why don't we fire Khloe? She is a fat piglet. Why did we get the ugly Kardashian?'' a source told Huffington Post.
2010 - Friend of CNN anchor Erin Burnett
Erin Burnett detailed an encounter that a friend had with Trump in March 2010 in the boardroom at Trump Tower, when he allegedly tried to kiss her without permission.
The woman told Burnett, according to CNN: 'Trump took Tic Tacs, suggested I take them also. He then leaned in, catching me off guard, and kissed me almost on lips. I was really freaked out.
'After (the meeting), Trump asked me to come into his office alone. Was really unsure what to do. ... Figured I could handle myself. Anyway, once in his office he kept telling me how special I am and gave me his cell, asked me to call him. I ran the hell out of there.'
2013 - Miss USA contestant Cassandra Searles
Cassandra Searles
Searles, who won Miss Washington in 2013, said Trump tried to seduce her, groped her, and treated the women in the pageant 'like cattle', according to Yahoo News.
'Do y'all remember that one time we had to do our onstage introductions, but this one guy treated us like cattle and made us do it again because we didn't look him in the eyes?' she wrote in June.
'Do you also remember when he then proceeded to have us lined up so he could get a closer look at his property?
'Oh I forgot to mention that guy will be in the running to become the next President of the United States.'
She then added: 'He probably doesn't want me telling the story about that time he continually grabbed my a** and invited me to his hotel room.'
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