Published on Sat, Oct 31, 2026 | Last updated Fri, Oct 30, 2026 13:39 UTC, 909 words | 4 min read | Revision: 1

The Transparency Files are a series of articles based on the publicly released Epstein Files.

Through Trump’s Trail of Trauma, Part 2: Stacey Williams

A Sports Illustrated model says Trump groped her in his Trump Tower office while Epstein looked on

[Trigger warning: this article retells an allegation of sexual assault. Please look after yourself.]

Part 2 of 5. Five women named by the House Judiciary Democrats’ report of Monday, October 26, 2026 as direct accusers of Trump.

TLDR; Williams says Trump groped her in his Trump Tower office in 1993 while Epstein, then her boyfriend, stood by and kept talking. Three women say she told them about it years before she went public. In a 2015 email Epstein wrote of a girlfriend from 1993 whom he “gave to donald”.

The HJC October 2026 report is from the minority staff of Rep. Jamie Raskin on the House Judiciary Committee. The full committee did not adopt it. It is a partisan document. It calls Williams’s account “detailed and corroborated” (p. 3). The White House told Newsweek: “None of these allegations are true.”

Her account

Williams was a Sports Illustrated swimsuit model. According to the report, she met Epstein at a Christmas party Trump hosted at the Plaza Hotel in 1992, and the two dated.

The following year she went with Epstein to Trump’s office in Trump Tower. There, she says, Trump groped her: “his hands were all over me. They were on my breasts, they were on my butt, they were on, you know, my hips, up and down.” The two men kept talking while it happened, she says, “smiling and grinning”.

When they left, she says, Epstein berated her for letting Trump touch her.

Months later a postcard arrived: Palm Beach, with the Mar-a-Lago Club in the foreground. “Stacey, your home away from home. Love, Donald.”

Looking back, she told the New York Times: “I just think it was trophy hunting … I think Jeffrey liked that he had this Sports Illustrated model who had this name, and that Trump was pursuing me.”

The paper trail

CNN published her account on Thursday, October 24, 2024. CNN spoke to three women who said Williams had told them about the Trump Tower incident in 2006, 2015 and 2018, long before she spoke on camera. The Trump campaign called her account “unequivocally false”.

The postcard is the one physical object in her story, and the report reproduces it (p. 20). It shows Trump writing to her.

DOJ’s January 2026 release holds Epstein’s own account of those years. On Tuesday, December 8, 2015, he wrote to Michael Wolff about “my 20 year old girlfriend in 93, that after two years i gave to donald” (EFTA00839258 (archive)). The report identifies that girlfriend as someone else, and says there is no evidence she experienced misconduct. The email is Epstein’s word, about another woman. It shows how he described his dealings with Trump over women in 1993, the year Williams describes.

The same evening a New York Times reporter, Landon Thomas Jr., pasted Trump’s own words about Epstein into an email to him, words the report dates to 2002: “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” (HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031604, in the House Oversight Committee’s November 2025 release)

What DOJ’s releases leave out

DOJ’s releases do not name Williams. They also leave out Maria Farmer’s 1996 and 2006 FBI reports (report p. 27). DOJ held back another accuser’s FBI interviews until Thursday, March 5, 2026, after saying they had been “incorrectly coded as duplicative” (ABC News). DOJ also re-redacted files after publishing them (DOJ Post-Release Re-Redactions, February 2026).

Why this matters

Williams describes a Trump Tower office in 1993, with Epstein standing beside her. Epstein’s 2015 email says he “gave to donald” a different girlfriend from that year. Meanwhile Maria Farmer’s FBI reports are missing, and another accuser’s interviews were held back for months as “duplicative”.

I think we are looking at the tip of the iceberg. On DOJ’s public pages, the video and audio files appear as one-page placeholders reading “No Images Produced”.

I think a foreign power may hold some of this material and use it to push Trump into wars fought for whoever holds it.

Voting for candidates who support impeaching and removing Trump can help prevent that escalation and give the victims a path to justice.

Sources

The report. House Judiciary Committee Democratic staff, “‘We Have Certain Things in Common, Jeffrey’: The Case Against Donald Trump Emerging in the Epstein Files and DOJ’s Desperate Efforts to Cover it Up”, Mon, Oct 26, 2026, pp. 19-20, 27. Full report (PDF).

External. CNN, Thu, Oct 24, 2024 (Williams’s account, three corroborating witnesses, campaign response). CNN, Sat, Jul 19, 2025, and New York Times, Thu, Dec 18, 2025, both as cited by the report. ABC News, Fri, Mar 6, 2026 (DOJ’s “incorrectly coded” statement). Newsweek, Mon, Oct 26, 2026 (White House response).

Our own working notes: report cover sheet, Stacey Williams.

Published on Sat, Oct 31, 2026 | Last updated Fri, Oct 30, 2026 13:39 UTC, 909 words | 4 min read | Revision: 1

The Transparency Files are a series of articles based on the publicly released Epstein Files.

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