Trump Allegedly ‘Threatened’ Beauty Queen After Groping Her
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Trump Allegedly ‘Threatened’ Beauty Queen After Groping Her
EXCLUSIVE: Beatrice Keul says Trump sexually assaulted her after a 1993 beauty pageant, then warned her not to speak out.
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My three-part interview with Beatrice Keul, a Swiss beauty queen who has alleged she was assaulted by Donald Trump after her participation in a 1993 pageant, begins here. The incident is an early window into the world of Jeffrey Epstein, his relationship with Trump, and the dark, predatory network that surrounded them for decades. Read part one, wherein Keul details meeting with Epstein and Trump while participating in the Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant in 1993, the assault she alleges followed, and the threats she has faced since, which she believes are designed to force her into silence.
A former beauty queen who has alleged Jeffrey Epstein attempted to groom her at an event where she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump claims the president “threatened” her afterward, warning: “Bad things can happen to you if you speak out.”
The former Miss Switzerland and Miss Europe contestant Beatrice Keul, 55, says she has since faced repeated threats to her safety, but the defiant whistleblower told PunchUp: “I stood up to the American president to save lives. This is my truth, and I will not be silenced.”
Keul first went public in October 2024 with allegations that, in November 1993, Trump—when he was 47, and she was a 23-year-old banking executive and part-time model—lured her to his Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant in New York, before he groped her in a suite at the Plaza Hotel after an aide requested she join the property developer for a “private meeting.”
Keul’s allegations prompted author and co-host of the Daily Beast’s “Inside Trump’s Head” podcast Michael Wolff to release some of the 100 hours of interviews he had conducted with Epstein, including a recording of Epstein describing himself as Trump’s “closest friend.”
Last December, multiple women came forward making similar allegations regarding Trump’s lecherous behavior and links to the late disgraced financier in a New York Times investigation, in which Keul further detailed the president’s alleged assault.
Keul is one of at least 28 women who have accused Trump of sexual misconduct, including writer E. Jean Carroll, whose sexual abuse claims a New York jury found credible. While Trump, 80, has denied all and any allegations of assault or harassment, calling them “unequivocally false” and insisting he has “never met” some of his accusers, he has so far not taken any legal action.
(White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, then serving as press secretary for Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign, also said in October 2024 that Keul’s claims were “fake allegations.”)
Speaking in a three-part interview with PunchUp about Trump and his relationship with Epstein, Keul says her unwelcome encounter with the president ended only after she talked him down.
Keul says Trump first “jumped” on her, kissed her, and tried to lift her dress. “He was grabbing and touching my body everywhere he could,” she claims, adding, “It was violent, it was quick, it was intense. I was screaming for help, and nobody came. It was bad.”
She then recalls him telling her to keep quiet about what happened: “He threatened me. He clearly told me that I must keep quiet… otherwise, bad things can happen”—a remark she took as a threat to her safety.
As Keul previously told the Daily Mail, “I was in a foreign country. I was scared that I could not go home, or I couldn’t come back.” And so, she says, “I promised him that I was going to keep quiet.”
Seemingly content with Keul’s response, she says Trump then told her, “The show must go on.” His calmness made Keul believe this was not the first time he had engaged in such behavior. “At this moment, I realized this was not his first try,” she told PunchUp.
Keul also alleges Epstein made moves on her that day. Prior to Trump’s alleged assault, Epstein had introduced himself to her, she said, as “Don’s best friend” and told her she was supposed to be his “prey,” inviting her to a party at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort.
As she later recounted to 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.”
Trump’s social ties to Epstein and his longtime associate and co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell have been well documented, with photos, flight logs, and accounts of parties in New York and Florida where they mingled for years.
Trump has repeatedly said he and Epstein had a falling out in the mid-2000s, and that he was “not a fan,” despite in 2002 having called him a “terrific guy” who liked “beautiful women… on the younger side.”
“Just as President Trump has said, he’s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein,” White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said in a statement to PunchUp. “And by releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and calling for more investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends, President Trump has done more for Epstein’s victims than anyone before him.”
Keul says that since she spoke to the Mail in October 2024, as also reported at the time by the Daily Beast, she has faced repeated attempts to silence her. One such AI-generated audio message, which Keul told PunchUp she received on her personal cell from an anonymous number around the time of the death of Epstein accuser Virginia Giuffre in April 2025, said starkly: “We know where you are, and we will get you.”
“While I do not know who was behind it, it was clearly designed to scare me,” said Keul, adding that the same tactic has been repeated multiple times since, with the last message received around one month ago.
The climate of fear, Keul says, extends far beyond her own case. Keul argues that powerful men in Epstein’s circle have every incentive to keep survivors quiet. She believes some women have backed away from talking after seeing others targeted or discredited.
She also rejects the official story that Epstein took his own life in a Manhattan jail in August 2019, saying: “This is not a guy who would commit suicide.”
Keul, who has finished a book about her experiences that she says is now “with the lawyers” ahead of publication, believes this will be the year a critical mass of survivors come forward. “The dam is about to burst,” she tells PunchUp, predicting that more women will come forward to connect the dots between Trump, Epstein, and the network of people who enabled them.
PunchUp has contacted representatives for Donald Trump for comment.
Stay tuned for part two of PunchUp’s exclusive interview with Keul—including how Epstein used beauty pageants and model agents to recruit girls—dropping later this week.
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Horrific ? I'm not comfortable ? This is outrageous" These are the remarks from democrats ? I think they really need to be more forceful in their responses. trump is Nazi. His Ice Gestapo murdered two people on national television. They have put immigrant women, children and men in concentration camps and. just like Hitler trump is building a bunker. There are WAY to many parallels to what happened in Nazi Germany. This is fascism Period.
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