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Jill Harth, a makeup artist who had filed a lawsuit allegation Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her in 1997, for the first time has spoken about the incident in detail. In an interview to Guardian, Harth, who has been at the centre of sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump has revealed in detail about her first hand experience working for Donald Trump.

According to a lawsuit that she had filed almost 20 years ago, she had said that Donald Trump had cornered her and groped her in his daughter’s bedroom.

In May, Donald Trump had publicly dismissed her allegations and termed them 'meritless' and his daughter Ivanka in an interview supported her father and said he was 'not a groper.' Harth says this was the reason she decided to talk about the incident now. Harth feels that the Donald's comment has publicly branded her as a liar and adds that her business has suffered because of her association with the allegations.

Here are excerpts of Harth's interview with Guardian:

"Trump took an interest in Harth immediately and began subjecting her to a steady string of unwanted sexual advances, detailed by Harth in her complaint.

There was the initial leering in that first December meeting in Trump Tower, and the inappropriate questions after her relationship status. It continued the next night over dinner at the Plaza Hotel’s Oak Room, where at a dinner with beauty pageant contestants she alleges he groped her under the table.

It culminated in January 1993, when Harth and Houraney were visiting his Florida mansion, Mar-a-Lago, to finalize and then celebrate the beauty pageant deal with a party.

After business concluded, Harth and Houraney were on tour of Mar-a-Lago along with a group of young pageant contestants – Trump wanted to “see the quality of the girls he was sponsoring”, Harth recalled – when he pulled her aside into one of the children’s bedrooms.

“He pushed me up against the wall, and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress again,” Harth recalled, “and I had to physically say: ‘What are you doing? Stop it.’ It was a shocking thing to have him do this because he knew I was with George (her then romantic partner), he knew they were in the next room. And how could he be doing this when I’m there for business?”

Jill Harth added that she decided to speak out about her experience with Trump because she wants an apology.