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How Jeffrey Epstein Used Trump Pageants to Recruit 'Fresh Meat'

EXCLUSIVE: Beauty queen Beatrice Keul alleges the tawdry events became a pipeline for Jeffrey Epstein's sex trafficking network.

Tom Latchem

Jul 01, 2026

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This is the second in a three-part series publishing this week on PunchUp. It’s an in-depth interview with Beatrice Keul, a Swiss beauty queen who has alleged she was assaulted by Donald Trump after her participation in a 1993 pageant. (Trump has denied the allegations.) My discussion with Keul sheds light on Trump’s friendship with Epstein and other murky figures in their social circles. Part three will be published here on PunchUp in the coming days.

A former beauty queen who alleges Donald Trump sexually assaulted her—and left her feeling afraid and unsafe—has claimed vulnerable young women participating in Trump-branded pageants in the 1990s were funneled toward disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking network.

In an exclusive interview with PunchUp about the U.S. President’s relationship with the dead convicted child sex offender, Beatrice Keul, 55, says she saw her fellow contestants at the 1993 Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant picked out, pressured, and moved on to private gatherings with men they barely knew by Epstein and another “predator” working in the modeling industry.

While the ex-Miss Switzerland and Miss Europe contestant claims she managed to escape what she believes was planned for her, the whistleblower described the pageant as “a playground.” Of Epstein and the other “predators” involved, she said, “They knew exactly what they wanted. I was fresh meat.”