A Huntington Beach woman said Donald Trump kissed and groped her when she sought a position in his company, the latest accusation of lewd behavior against the Republican presidential nominee.

Summer Zervos, a contestant on Season 5 of “The Apprentice,” said at a news conference Friday morning that Trump accosted her in New York and California.

Trump swiftly denied the accusation, as he has all of the earlier claims, and said that Zervos tried to contact him via email earlier this year.

• PHOTOS: ‘Apprentice’ contestant Summer Zervos accused Donald Trump of forcing himself on her

Joined by Los Angeles-based attorney Gloria Allred, Zervos said that after she was “fired” from “The Apprentice,” she continued to see Trump as a potential employer and mentor.

A visibly shaken Zervos recounted how said she met with Trump in 2007 at his office in New York. She claimed that the real estate mogul kissed her on the lips, catching her off guard.

“I was surprised but felt that perhaps it was his form of greeting,” Zervos, 43, told reporters in a packed room at Allred’s office. “He said that he had never met anyone with my combination of being smart, attractive and with the largest set of balls, as I have,” she said.

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Zervos said that as she was about to leave the meeting, Trump allegedly kissed her on the lips, again. “This made me feel nervous and embarrassed. This is not what I wanted or expected,” she said.

She went on to claim that several weeks later he contacted her when he visited Southern California. She went to the Beverly Hills Hotel and was taken to his bungalow where he “started kissing me open-mouthed,” she said.

Zervos also alleged Trump grabbed her breast and thrust his genitals toward her.

She was ultimately offered a position at a Trump-owned golf course, but the salary was far less than what Zervos requested, she said. She told Trump she felt that she was being “penalized” for rejecting his sexual advances, she said.

The alleged incident occurred two years after Trump married his current wife, Melania.

Trump later told Zervos, whose family owns Huntington Beach’s Sunny’s Restaurant, that he couldn’t hire her because of layoffs at his company, she said.

Zervos said she sent an email in April 2016 to Trump, hoping to hear back from him, but said no response came.

“Your interest in me as a potential employee meant the world to me,” Zervos wrote in that email, she said. “Your interest in me as anything more blew my mind, and I lost my footing. I have been incredibly hurt by our previous interaction.”

Trump said in a statement Friday he “vaguely” remembers Zervos from “The Apprentice.”

“To be clear, I never met her at a hotel or greeted her inappropriately a decade ago. That is not who I am as a person, and it is not how I’ve conducted my life,” Trump said. “In fact, Ms. Zervos continued to contact me for help, emailing my office on April 14th of this year asking that I visit her restaurant in California.”

Late Friday, Trump’s campaign released a statement given by Zervos’ first cousin, John Barry of Mission Viejo.

“I am completely shocked and bewildered by my cousin, Summer Zervos, and her press conference today,” Barry said, according to the statement. “Ever since she was on ‘The Apprentice,’ she has had nothing but glowing things to say about Mr. Trump.”

Zervos would talk about Trump’s kindness, the statement said.

But that changed, it went on, after Trump said no to her invitation to come to her restaurant during the primary election season. “I think Summer wishes she could still be on reality TV, and in an effort to get that back, she’s saying all of these negative things about Mr. Trump,” Barry said in the statement.

Speaking at a rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, earlier Friday, Trump called the recent string of sexual assault allegations “total fiction.”

“They are 100 percent made-up,” Trump told the crowd. “They never happened, they never would happen.”

Several women have accused Trump of sexual assault following the release last week of an “Access Hollywood” video that showed the former reality television star bragging about groping women.

• VIDEO: Summer Zervos’ press conference alleging Donald Trump kissed and groped her

The Washington Post published a story Friday in which a woman claimed Trump groped her at a Manhattan nightspot in early 1990s.

On Wednesday, the New York Times published a report quoting two women who claimed that Trump had groped or touched them inappropriately years ago.

Hours later, People magazine posted a story alleging that Trump sexually assaulted one of its female reporters in 2005.

A 2006 Orange County Register interview with Zervos about her “Apprentice” appearance identified her as the owner of Sunny’s Restaurant in Huntington Beach.

She told the paper she shared the entrepreneur’s work ethic because, like Trump, her family struggled when their restaurants closed. She left the television show “admiring Donald Trump a lot more than when I arrived,” Zervos told the paper.

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Zervos cited the “Access Hollywood” video and Trump’s subsequent denials about his sexual conduct, when asked Friday why she decided to make her allegations public now. Zervos also told reporters she is a Republican and voter records show she is registered as one.

Allred, a civil rights attorney who frequently represents victims in high-profile sexual assault cases, had harsh words for Trump on Friday.

“It is my understanding that your campaign may try to discredit the accusers and in essence are declaring war on women,” Allred said. “But women will not be silenced by this tactic. Women are now empowered, and they will not be bullied into silence anymore.”