The US president was accused Thursday by a former model of a sexual assault which allegedly occurred at the US Open in 1997. Facts told to the British newspaper The Guardian that Donald Trump's lawyers have fiercely denied.

US President Donald Trump was accused Thursday by a former model of a sexual assault that allegedly occurred at the US Open in 1997. Amy Dorris told British newspaper The Guardian how the Republican billionaire kissed her and touched without their consent.

The president's lawyers fiercely denied, to the daily, these accusations unveiled only a few weeks before the presidential election of November 3.

"He stuck his tongue down my throat as I pushed him away"

According to Amy Dorris, Donald Trump, who was at the time a real estate developer and a New York socialite, would have accosted her on September 5, 1997 in front of the toilets of his VIP box at the US Open, the famous tennis tournament. American.

"He stuck his tongue down my throat as I pushed him away. That's when his embrace tightened, his hands were wandering and he touched my butt, my breasts, my back, everything," he explains. her to the Guardian, adding that she asked him to stop.

Donald Trump, who was 51 at the time, "didn't care" about his refusal, she says.

"I was a prisoner in his embrace, and I couldn't get out of it," she said.

The young woman, who was 24 years old at the time of the alleged facts, had "nausea" and felt "flouted", she explains.

Donald Trump has been accused of sexual assault or harassment by more than a dozen women, including a columnist, E. Jean Carroll, who accuses him of having raped her in the mid-1990s. The president has denied all these accusations.

In the case of E. Jean Carroll, he indicated that she was "not his type of woman".

Just before the 2016 election, a 2005 video of the former real estate mogul was released.

He was heard boasting, in vulgar terms, of being able to grab women by the genitals thanks to his notoriety.