By Zev Shalev | The Narativ
Beatrice Keul has given House Judiciary Democratic staff a substantially more serious account of her encounter with Donald Trump in 1993: she says he raped her in a suite at New York’s Plaza Hotel. Her account also places Jeffrey Epstein at the event and names Paolo Zampolli as the man Trump allegedly promised would arrange her American visa.
The central new disclosure is explicit. Keul previously described resisting an attempted rape. In their October 26 report, committee staff say that, through extensive discussions over several weeks, she disclosed a completed rape and additional details she had previously withheld. This is a new allegation within an encounter she had already publicly described. House Judiciary Democrats’ report, pp. 16–19
The offers before the alleged assault
Keul, a Swiss model and financial-services professional, traveled to the United States for the Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant in November 1993.
At a press luncheon at the Plaza, she says Trump approached her with the greeting, “Finally we meet Ms. Keul,” pronouncing her surname “cool.” During a conversation lasting at least 15 minutes, he offered to arrange a visa and personally ensure her admission to New York University.
When she said she could handle her own visa, she recalls him insisting: “No no, my friend Paolo will take care of that.”
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