Attorney Gloria Allred Says a Woman Will File a Lawsuit Against Donald Trump for Sexual Misconduct Today

A woman who accused President-elect Donald Trump of sexually inappropriate conduct will announce the filing of a lawsuit against Trump — according civil rights lawyer Gloria Allred.

via The Hill:

The woman will hold a news conference Tuesday in Los Angeles, Calif., with Allred to announce the lawsuit.

Multiple women came forward last year to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct after the release of a 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Trump was heard making lewd comments about women.

In the tape, Trump talked about how he could grope and kiss women without their consent because of his celebrity status.

Allred has in the past represented some of the accusers.

She said in October, after the release of the video, that she was hearing accusations of sexual misconduct against Trump before the 2005 tape emerged.

“Many women contacted me even prior to the release of the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape,” Allred said. “They just wanted me to know what Mr. Trump had done.”

Allred has harshly criticized Trump in the past, calling him a “fourth-rate politician and a fifth-rate human.”

“Please understand that you will not intimidate me,” she said in a statement directed at Trump. “Others who are smarter, richer and more famous than you have tried and failed.”

Get him, Gloria!

Update: Former ‘The Apprentice’ contestant Summer Zervos, who accused Donald Trump of inappropriate sexual conduct, has filed a defamation lawsuit.

“The lawsuit alleges that Ms. Zervos had been subjected to unwanted sexual touching by Donald Trump and that she had told family and friends about the incidents not long after these incidents occurred,” Allred said during a press conference held Tuesday.

Allred said Zervos decided not to take any action against the president-elect or go public with her story at the time it happened.

But that changed in October of last year, Allred said.

Multiple women came forward then to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct after the release of a 2005 “Access Hollywood” video in which Trump is heard making lewd comments about women.

In the tape, Trump talked about how he could grope and kiss women without their consent because of his celebrity status.

Zervos held a press conference last year when she described a 2007 incident in which she says Trump groped and kissed her during a meeting about a job opportunity. Trump and his team denied the claims made by Zervos at the time.

“On Nov. 11, 2016, I called on Mr. Trump to retract his statements about me calling me a liar. I also called upon him to state that what I said about his behavior toward me was true,” Zervos said during the press conference Tuesday.

“More than two months have gone by and he has not issued that retraction. I wanted to give Mr. Trump the opportunity to retract his false statements about me and the other women who came forward.”

Zervos said since Trump hasn’t issued a retraction, she was left with no alternative other than to sue him “in order to vindicate my reputation.”

She said she would still be willing to dismiss her case against the president-elect if he would “simply retract his false and defamatory statements about me and acknowledge that I told the truth about him.”

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