Former Miss Switzerland Says Trump Raped Her at the Plaza Hotel

President Donald Trump is facing another serious sexual assault allegation after a former Swiss beauty queen accused him of raping her inside a luxury New York City hotel more than three decades ago, according to a newly released congressional report that raises troubling questions about his past relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.

Beatrice Keul, a former Miss Switzerland runner-up, alleges that Trump assaulted her at the Plaza Hotel in November 1993 after promising to help advance her career and education. Her account is detailed in a 53-page report released Monday, October 26, by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee.

The allegations have not been proven in court, and Trump has not been criminally charged in connection with Keul’s claims. The White House strongly denies the accusations, dismissing the report as a politically motivated attack.

However, the findings have intensified scrutiny of Trump’s past association with Epstein, the disgraced financier whose abuse of young women and girls became one of the country’s most notorious scandals.

Keul was 24 years old and working in modeling and financial services when she was recruited to participate in the Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant, an event held in Atlantic City and New York City.

According to her account to congressional investigators, she met Trump during a luncheon at the Plaza Hotel, which he owned at the time. The future president allegedly took an immediate interest in her, offering to arrange a U.S. visa and help secure her admission to New York University.

Those promises reportedly made a powerful impression on Keul, who believed the wealthy businessman could open doors to opportunities in America.

But Trump was not the only influential figure who approached her that day.

Keul told investigators that Epstein introduced himself shortly after her conversation with Trump, allegedly describing himself as Trump’s close friend. Epstein reportedly made similar offers of assistance and invited her to attend a gathering at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate in Florida.

What initially appeared to be a promising opportunity allegedly took a devastating turn later that day.

Keul claims a representative of Trump invited her upstairs for a private meeting. Believing she was about to discuss her future, she agreed to accompany him to a hotel suite.

Instead, she alleges that Trump sexually assaulted and raped her.

Keul described the alleged encounter as brutal and told investigators that she suffered injuries. She further claimed that Trump pressured her to remain silent afterward while repeating his promises of educational and immigration assistance.

According to the report, Trump told her, “The show must go on.”

Keul claims she completed the remainder of the pageant in a state of fear and confusion before returning to Switzerland. She subsequently declined an invitation to another Trump-sponsored event in Hawaii.

Months later, Trump allegedly contacted her in Switzerland and renewed his offers to help her relocate to the United States and attend NYU. She reportedly rejected those offers.

The newly released report provides a more serious account than Keul had previously made public. In 2024, she described an alleged unwanted encounter with Trump but said she had managed to stop him from raping her. Congressional Democrats acknowledge that earlier account and say Keul disclosed additional details during several weeks of interviews with committee staff.

The report does not constitute a criminal finding, and Keul’s allegation has not been independently established in court.

Still, investigators argue that her account deserves further scrutiny because of similarities they identified between her experiences and those described by other women who encountered Trump and Epstein during the 1990s.

The Democratic staff report examines accounts involving 11 women and alleges that influential men used beauty pageants, modeling opportunities and promises of professional advancement to gain access to young women. It also references a 1997 lawsuit filed by former pageant organizer Jill Harth, who accused Trump of sexual misconduct.

House Democrats say the accounts raise questions that warrant an independent investigation, rather than simply accepting assurances from the administration that the Epstein matter has been resolved.

The White House has rejected that characterization.

“None of these allegations are true,” spokeswoman Lauren Bis told PEOPLE, accusing Democrats of attempting to distract voters from Trump’s political achievements.

Bis also maintained that Trump removed Epstein from his Mar-a-Lago club because of his behavior and insisted the president had been “fully exonerated” of wrongdoing involving the financier.

Those assertions stand in sharp contrast to the conclusions of the Democratic investigators, who are calling for additional scrutiny of the evidence and the government’s handling of Epstein-related records.

The controversy also comes against the backdrop of Trump’s legal history involving writer E. Jean Carroll.

In May 2023, a New York civil jury found Trump liable for sexually abusing Carroll in a Manhattan department store during the 1990s and subsequently defaming her. The jury awarded approximately $5 million in damages.

Trump denied Carroll’s allegations and challenged the verdict, but the Supreme Court declined to reconsider the case in August 2026, leaving the judgment intact. He has also continued fighting a separate $83.3 million defamation judgment involving Carroll.

Unlike Carroll’s case, Keul’s allegations have not been tested before a jury, and there has been no court finding that Trump assaulted her.

Nevertheless, the latest congressional report places renewed attention on an uncomfortable question for the White House: whether the public has received a complete accounting of Trump’s interactions with Epstein and the women who have accused the president of misconduct.

For Keul, the allegations concern an encounter she says changed her life in 1993. For congressional Democrats, her account adds urgency to their demands for a more thorough, independent examination of the Epstein records.

And for Trump, the allegations have reopened a controversy that continues to shadow his presidency, even as his administration insists there is nothing left to investigate.