--- title: New Details of Trump Rape Allegation Revealed in Democrats’ Epstein Report description: A report on Trump's ties to Epstein includes new details from a woman who alleged Trump raped her in 1993. canonical: https://time.com/article/2026/10/26/house-democrats-unveil-new-details-from-trump-accuser/ author: Philip Wang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2026-10-26T17:26:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-10-26T17:31:22.328Z article:section: Politics og:title: New Details of Rape Allegation Against Trump Revealed in House Democrats’ Epstein Report og:description: A report from House Democrats on Trump's ties to Epstein includes new details from a woman who alleged Trump raped her in 1993. og:url: https://time.com/article/2026/10/26/house-democrats-unveil-new-details-from-trump-accuser/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt866b7fe8092fdcd9/6adf6e0f9c5f31c300eb159d/GettyImages-2301673775.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1024 og:image:height: 576 og:image:alt: GettyImages-2301673775.jpg og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: New Details of Rape Allegation Against Trump Revealed in House Democrats’ Epstein Report twitter:description: A report from House Democrats on Trump's ties to Epstein includes new details from a woman who alleged Trump raped her in 1993. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt866b7fe8092fdcd9/6adf6e0f9c5f31c300eb159d/GettyImages-2301673775.jpg?branch=production&width=1024&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # New Details of Rape Allegation Against Trump Revealed in House Democrats’ Epstein Report > Sponsored content. 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President Donald Trump apepars at a rally at Alico Arena on the Florida Gulf Coast University campus on Oct. 23, 2026, in Fort Myers, Florida. Alex Wong—Getty Images  by [Philip Wang](https://time.com/author/philip-wang/)  ## Philip Wang Oct 26, 2026 5:26 PM UTC Listen 00:001.0x04:05 Narrated by TIME AI. A [report](https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-10.hjc-dems-staff-report-epstein-and-trump.pdf) released Monday by Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee on President Donald Trump's [ties](https://time.com/7333365/trump-epstein-relationship-timeline/) to [Jeffrey Epstein](https://time.com/7340275/jeffrey-epstein-files-release/) included new details from a woman who alleged Trump raped her in 1993\. Beatrice Keul, a model and former Miss Switzerland, alleged to Judiciary Committee staff that she was raped by Trump in a Plaza Hotel suite in Manhattan when she was 24\. Keul said that while attending the American Dream Pageant, which had a partnership with Trump, she met with Trump at a press luncheon at the event. Trump, according to Keul, promised to arrange her visa in the U.S. and ensure her acceptance into New York University through his friend Paolo Zampolli, a close Trump ally who was, until earlier this month, part of his Administration. At the same event, she also spent at least 10 minutes talking to Epstein who she said claimed to have organized “many parties with Don.” Later that day, Keul alleges, Trump invited her to a hotel suite where Trump “grabbed Keul from behind and forcibly raped her,” causing “bleeding and bruising on multiple parts of her body,” the report says. Following the incident, Keul alleges Trump made her promise she would keep quiet and repeated his promise for visa and college admission. Because Keul’s passport had been taken from her on her arrival, she was not able to leave the contest following the incident, she alleges, according to the report. After she returned to Switzerland, she declined to participate in an additional Trump-sponsored pageant in Hawaii several weeks later. TIME has been unable to independently verify details of Keul’s account. In a statement, the White House denies the allegations and says that President Trump has been “fully exonerated of anything related to Epstein.” “This ‘report’ is nothing more than a desperate attempt by crazed Democrats to distract Americans from the surging Republican momentum driven by President Trump’s historic achievements,” White House spokeswoman Lauren Bis says. Keul has [previously](https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-13983755/beauty-queen-beatrice-keul-donald-trump-groped-plaza-hotel.html) [spoken](https://open.spotify.com/episode/0n8V1LdXRKjgz1rfweEvFA) in public about her sexual assault allegations against Trump, but the report provided new details of the alleged rape—as well as reviewingsimilar accounts of other Trump accusers. **_Read more:_** [_Trump Said He Banned Epstein From Mar-a-Lago. A Lawmaker Who Reviewed Unredacted Files Says They Tell a Different Story_](https://time.com/7379910/epstein-files-trump-maxwell-frost-mar-a-lago/) In addition to Keul’s account, the report also compiled allegations from four other women who have directly accused Trump of rape or sexual assault in connection with the Epstein investigation. The allegations, spanning from the mid-1980s to the 1990s, had all been previously made public either through media interviews or FBI testimony released as part of the Epstein files. The report’s release, just over a week before Election Day, comes as Democrats are working to signal to voters how they will make use of their power if they gain control of one or both chambers of Congress. On Monday, Rep. Jamie Raskin of Maryland, the top Democrat of the House Judiciary Committee, called on the Department of Justice to appoint an independent special counsel to oversee the investigation of allegations mentioned in the report. So far, [Ghislaine Maxwell](https://time.com/7334641/epstein-ghislaine-maxwell-trump-prison/), a longtime Epstein confidant, is the only person to have been convicted of sex trafficking of minors in connection with the Epstein case. “An independent special counsel must investigate Epstein’s co-conspirators and DOJ’s cover-up and ensure that state and foreign prosecutors have the evidence they need to pursue justice,” Raskin said in a statement. ## Allegations made against Paolo Zampolli The report also alleges that Zampolli, a former Trump administration official and a close Trump ally, was “an active participant” in the Epstein sex trafficking allegations. According to the report, which cites multiple FBI reports included in the Epstein files, Zampolli arranged U.S. visas for young female models before they met Epstein. One FBI report mentioned that Zampolli arranged an 18-year-old model’s visa before she was recruited to give a massage at Epstein’s house, where Epstein allegedly raped her. Zampolli himself has also been accused of rape and sexual assault in a separate case brought by model Victoria Drake, who [alleges](https://assets.newsweek.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/10/Victoria-Drake-against-PAOLO-ZAMPOLLI.pdf) in an ongoing civil lawsuit that Zampolli drugged and raped her in 2023\. TIME has reached out to Zampolli for comment. Previously, Zampolli has claimed that he had introduced First Lady Melania Trump to the President in 1998, but the report disputes that claim, citing two accounts—one from an unnamed Epstein associate and the other from Amanda Ungaro, a Brazilian model—saying that Epstein had introduced Melania Trump to Donald Trump. The New York _Times_ [reported](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/us/paolo-zampolli-ice-melania-trump-epstein.html) in March that Zampolli had asked a top official at Immigration and Customs Enforcement last year to detain and deport Ungaro, whom Zampolli had previously dated, amid a custody battle over their son. Zampolli denied making such requests. Until earlier this month, Zampolli held a diplomatic role under the State Department as Special Representative for Global Partnerships. He was fired two weeks ago over a months-long dispute with the department’s deputy secretary, [according to Politico](https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/15/paolo-zampolli-fired-state-department-trump-01121739). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/10/26/house-democrats-unveil-new-details-from-trump-accuser/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/10/26/house-democrats-unveil-new-details-from-trump-accuser/"},"headline":"New Details of Rape Allegation Against Trump Revealed in House Democrats’ Epstein Report","datePublished":"2026-10-26T17:26:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-10-26T17:31:22.328Z","description":"A report from House Democrats on Trump's ties to Epstein includes new details from a woman who alleged Trump raped her in 1993.","url":"https://time.com/article/2026/10/26/house-democrats-unveil-new-details-from-trump-accuser/","keywords":["Donald Trump","democrats"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt866b7fe8092fdcd9/6adf6e0f9c5f31c300eb159d/GettyImages-2301673775.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Philip Wang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/philip-wang/"}],"articleSection":"Politics","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt866b7fe8092fdcd9/6adf6e0f9c5f31c300eb159d/GettyImages-2301673775.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"GettyImages-2301673775.jpg","caption":"","creditText":"Alex Wong—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/politics/","name":"Politics"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/donald-trump/","name":"Donald Trump"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/article/2026/10/26/house-democrats-unveil-new-details-from-trump-accuser/","name":"New Details of Rape Allegation Against Trump Revealed in House Democrats’ Epstein Report"}}]}] ```