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A former contestant on the Apprentice, Summer Zervos, has accused Donald Trump of groping or aggressively kissing her on two separate occasions in 2007, when she met Trump in private for what she thought were going to be discussions about job opportunities.

Summer Zervos. Photograph: Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images

Zervos made her accusations in a prepared statement that she read Friday in the offices of her lawyer, Gloria Allred. Often speaking through tears, Zervos said Trump greeted her and said goodbye to her at a meeting in his New York office with a kiss on the lips. Brushing it off as his form of greeting, Zervos agreed to meet Trump for dinner later that year when he traveled to Los Angeles.

At a Beverly Hills hotel, Trump’s security guard led her to a bungalow where he was staying. When she was inside, Zervos claimed, Trump greeted her with an open-mouthed, aggressive kiss while grabbing her shoulder to hold her in, and put his hand on her breast. Several times, she claims, she pushed him away and indicated he should stop.

When Zervos resisted Trump’s advances, she claimed, he tried to lead her toward the bedroom of the bungalow. “Let’s lay down and watch some telly-telly,” she claims he said. When she said, “C’mon man, get real,” she claims he replied, “Get real,” and thrust his genitals at her.



Zervos, an Orange County restaurant owner when she appeared on the fifth season of the the Apprentice, made her accusations public because of Trump’s claims that he had never touched a woman without her consent.