Sexual-misconduct allegations against Donald Trump are piling up. There are now 10 women who say Trump kissed or groped them without their consent. And the Republican presidential nominee is fighting back.

"The stories are total fiction," Trump said last week. "They're 100 percent made up, they never happened, they never would happen... Some [of the accusers] are doing it for probably a little fame, they get some free fame. It's a total setup."

Trump's proof that at least some of the accusations are false: Look at his accusers. "Believe me, she would not be my first choice, that I can tell you," he said of Jessica Leeds, who alleges he groped her on an airplane more than 30 years ago.

He said the same thing about Natasha Stoynoff, the People magazine writer who says Trump pressed himself on her sexually and insisted they would have an affair.

"She lies!" Trump declared. "Look at her! I don't think so." (Six people have corroborated Stoynoff's allegation.)

This "Look at her!" defense does not invest the real-estate magnate and former reality-TV star with a whole lot of credibility. But, says Trump biographer Harry Hurt III, it's entirely typical of him.

Hurt is the man who dug out Ivana Trump's 1990 divorce deposition, in which Trump's first wife stated under oath that he had raped her. The New Yorker reported this week on the deposition as described in Hurt's 1993 biography, "Lost Tycoon: The Many Lives of Donald J. Trump":

Trump was furious that a "scalp reduction" operation he'd undergone to eliminate a bald spot had been unexpectedly painful. Ivana had recommended the plastic surgeon. In retaliation, Hurt wrote, Trump yanked out a handful of his wife's hair, and then forced himself on her sexually. Afterward, according to the book, she spent the night locked in a bedroom, crying; in the morning, Trump asked her, "with menacing casualness, 'Does it hurt?' " Trump has denied both the rape allegation and the suggestion that he had a scalp-reduction procedure. Hurt said that the incident, which is detailed in Ivana's deposition, was confirmed by two of her friends.

Ivana, who has three children with Donald (Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric), later insisted she did not mean rape in "a literal or criminal sense." "But," Hurt points out, "she's not saying it's untrue, or that she didn't swear to it under oath."

For his part, Trump leaned on the Fifth Amendment's safeguard against self-incrimination about 100 times during his own deposition for the divorce.

Earlier this year, Ivana said Donald, now 70, wanted to run for president in the early 1990s but that their divorce scuttled the plan.

"Probably five years before our divorce, Reagan or somebody ... said, 'You should run for president,'" Ivana told the New York Post in April. "So, he was thinking about it. But then there was the divorce, there was the scandal, and American women loved me and hated him."

Hurt chronicled it all in his biography, which was released when Trump's celebrity was at a low ebb. Ivana's rape accusation isn't the only bombshell in the book. There's another claim from Ivana that might cut even deeper into Trump's view of himself -- and the view he wants the world to have of him. Hurt reported that Ivana "confided to female friends that Donald had difficulty achieving and maintaining an erection."

Needless to say, Trump isn't a fan of "Lost Tycoon." He has called Hurt, a former Newsweek correspondent and the author of six books, a "dummy dope." He insists the entire book is fiction.

-- Douglas Perry