Palm Beach Post exclusive: Local woman says Trump groped her
By Joe Capozzi - Palm Beach Post Staff Writer
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For more than 10 years, it was something Mindy McGillivray said she shared only with a close circle of family and friends.That changed Sunday night. Donald Trump was asked during the presidential debate about when he bragged that he kissed women without their consent and grabbed their genitals – remarks captured on audio that surfaced last week.
Trump apologized for the remarks and dismissed them as “locker room talk.” But the debate moderator, CNN’s Anderson Cooper, asked Trump to clarify: “Have you ever done those things?”
“No, I have not,’’ Trump replied.
Watching at home in Palm Springs, Fla., McGillivray said she rose from her couch and yelled at the TV screen: “‘You liar!’’’
McGillivray, 36, said she was groped by Trump at Mar-a-Lago 13 years ago. She said she never reported it to authorities.But her companion that day, photographer Ken Davidoff, vividly remembers when McGillivray pulled him aside moments after the alleged incident and told him, ‘’Donald just grabbed my ass!’’
The New York Times reported Wednesday that two other women came forward to say Trump groped them — one who sat next to him on a flight 30 years ago and another who encountered him outside an elevator at Trump Tower.
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Mindy McGillivray poses in 2001 in front of a Donald Trump painting at Mar-a-Lago. Photo courtesy of Davidoff Studios
“There is no truth to this whatsoever,” Hope Hicks, Trump’s press secretary, said about McGillivray’s allegation when reached by The Post Wednesday night. “This allegation lacks any merit or veracity.”
According to Davidoff, it was Jan. 24, 2003, when he and his father, the late Palm Beach society photographer Bob Davidoff, took photos at Mar-a-Lago during a concert by Ray Charles. Bob Davidoff for years was the Kennedys’ favored photographer in Palm Beach.
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