LOS ANGELES, Nov. 3 (UPI) — A woman accusing Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump of raping her 22 years ago cancelled a press conference Wednesday afternoon because she’d been receiving death threats and was concerned for her safety.
Lisa Bloom, the woman’s attorney, stepped in front of the press Wednesday to tell them Jane Doe would not be appearing because she was “too afraid to show her face” after receiving numerous death threats just in the hours before the press conference.
“She is living in fear,” Bloom told reporters who gathered at her office. “She has decided that she’s too afraid to show her face. She’s been here all day ready to do it. But unfortunately she’s in terrible fear. So we’re going to have to reschedule.”
Jane Doe has accused Donald Trump of raping her repeatedly at parties hosted by Jeffrey Epstein during the summer of 1994 in New York City when she was 13 years old.
“I loudly pleaded with Defendant Trump to stop, but he did not,” Jane Doe wrote in a document included with recent lawsuits filed in New York and California. “Defendant Trump responded to my pleas by violently striking me in the face with his open hand and screaming that he would do whatever he wanted… Immediately following this rape, Defendant Trump threatened me that, were I ever to reveal any of the details of Defendant Trump’s sexual and physical abuse of me, my family and I would be physically harmed if not killed.”
Trump, who has been accused by several women of sexual assault in the last several months, has denied the allegations repeatedly through his attorney.
