Beatrice Keul, a former Miss Switzerland and Miss Europe contestant, says Donald Trump groped her in his suite at New York's Plaza Hotel in November 1993 and threatened her into silence afterward.
Keul, then a 23-year-old banking executive and part-time model, was brought to a private meeting with Trump, then 47, during his Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant. The allegation remains unverified. The White House denies everything. Keul says the intimidation has never stopped.
Highlights
- Beatrice Keul says Trump allegedly groped her during a 1993 pageant trip to New York.
- Keul claims Trump warned her that “bad things can happen if you speak out.”
- She says an AI-generated anonymous message later warned, “We know where you are, and we will get you.”
- The White House says Trump has been “totally exonerated” on anything relating to Epstein.
A pageant trip, a private suite, and a warning
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Keul first went public on October 30, 2024, when the Daily Mail reported her allegation. An aide had summoned her to meet Trump privately. Once inside his suite, she says he immediately turned physical. She says he jumped on her, kissed her, and tried to lift her dress.
"He was grabbing and touching my body everywhere he could," she claims. "It was violent, it was quick, it was intense. I was screaming for help, and nobody came. It was bad."
She says she managed to talk him down. She says he then told her to keep quiet — "otherwise, bad things can happen to you if you speak out" — a remark she took as a threat.
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The claim resurfaced in a December 2024 New York Times investigation, in which multiple women described similar experiences. The available record includes Keul’s testimony and personal documents, including an invitation, a plane ticket, and a plaque, but no independent contemporaneous witness has publicly emerged.
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Later that same day, she says, Epstein approached her at the event, introduced himself as "Don’s best friend," and made clear she was meant to be his "prey." She later told Swiss outlet NZZ: "First, the sexual assault by Donald Trump, and then Jeffrey Epstein wouldn’t let go of me. It was like a horror show."
Former Sports Illustrated model Stacey Williams separately told CNN that Trump groped her to show off for Epstein.
Threats, denials, and unanswered questions
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Going public didn’t make Keul safer. Around the time of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre’s death in April 2025, she received an AI-generated audio message on her personal cellphone from an anonymous number: "We know where you are, and we will get you."
She told PunchUp, "While I do not know who was behind it, it was clearly designed to scare me." She says similar messages have kept coming.
The White House has pushed back firmly. "Just as President Trump has said, he’s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein," spokeswoman Abigail Jackson told The Daily Beast.
Keul says she has finished a book, now with lawyers ahead of publication. She predicts more survivors will come forward, telling PunchUp: "The dam is about to burst." Her account adds another serious allegation to a long-running public fight with no resolution in sight.
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