UNDERNEWS: Woman files defamation suit against Trump over alleged sexual assaults

January 18, 2017

Woman files defamation suit against Trump over alleged sexual assaults

Alternet - Summer Zervos, a former contestant on "The Apprentice," announced at today’s press conference that she has filed a defamation suit against Donald Trump for using “his national and international bully pulpit to make false factual statements to denigrate and verbally attack Ms. Zervos and the other women who publicly reported his sexual assaults in October 2016.” The lawsuit, which was filed in Manhattan Supreme Court on Tuesday, can be viewed online.

According to those court papers, Zervos “was ambushed by Mr. Trump on more than one occasion” over the course of filming the television show in 2007. The lawsuit alleges:

Mr. Trump suddenly, and without her consent, kissed her on her mouth repeatedly; he touched her breast; and he pressed his genitals up against her. Ms. Zervos never consented to any of this disgusting touching. Instead, she repeatedly expressed that he should stop his inappropriate sexual behavior, including by shoving him away from her forcefully, and telling him to “get real.” Mr. Trump did not care, he kept touching her anyway.

The suit also charges that Trump “attacked [Zervos] in a hotel room on a later occasion.” Attorney Gloria Allred told assembled press that Zervos volunteered to take, and passed, a polygraph test.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: Zervos is a fraud. She formally wrote to request Trump to visit her restaurant in So. Cal last year during the primaries, heaping all kinds of praise about him. Her cousin has revealed that she has always lauded him until she joined forces with Allred's group of other false accusers.; January 18, 2017 at 10:41 PM

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