Over the course of decades, multiple women say Donald Trump has groped them, kissed them on the mouth, or made lewd propositions.
Peter Kramer / AP
Donald Trump's treatment of women drew new scrutiny this month after the release of a 2005 Access Hollywood tape showed him bragging about kissing women, grabbing them "by the pussy," and attempting to have sex with a married woman.
In response to the tape, Trump — who had cultivated a playboy image for years through parties, his modeling agency, and his ownership of the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants — said it was all just "locker room talk."
"I have great respect for women," Trump said in the second presidential debate. "Nobody has more respect for women than I do."
Anderson Cooper, the debate's moderator, pressed the Republican on if he had ever physically groped or kissed women without consent.
"No, I have not," Trump said.
These are the women who say that's a lie.
Jessica Leeds: 1980s
Leeds told the New York Times she wound up sitting next to Trump on an airplane after being unexpectedly upgraded to first class three decades ago.
They initially chatted, but about 45 minutes into the flight, he began grabbing her breasts and reaching up under her skirt, she told the Times.
“He was like an octopus,” she told the Times. “His hands were everywhere.”
Jill Harth: 1992
Harth met Donald Trump in 1992 for a business venture with her then-partner. From the start, Trump made sexual comments to her and the behavior escalated, she said.
Harth filed a lawsuit in 1997, saying that Trump had made a series of lewd comments about her, groped her, and also raped her. She later withdrew her lawsuit as part of a confidential settlement of another suit related to the business plans, the New York Times reported.
For several months in 1998, Harth and Trump dated, she told the Times. More recently, she said she tried to "bury the hatchet" and reached out to him again.
"He buried the hatchet, in my back. Said I made it up. No no no," she tweeted. "Doesn't negate what he did to me working with him. He is wrong, not me."
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