What we know

Nearly a dozen women have accused Donald Trump of sexual assault or harassment -- accusations denied by the real estate mogul who was caught in a newly-surfaced 2005 video boasting that stardom allowed him to grope women with impunity.
Here are short accounts of their accusations.9999

Jessica Leeds
A former traveling businesswoman, Leeds told The New York Times that Trump groped her on a flight in the early 1980s as they sat next to each other in first class. About 45 minutes after takeoff, Trump lifted the armrest and began grabbing her breasts and tried to put his hand up her skirt, she accused.

Rachel Crooks
Crooks said Trump forcibly kissed her in 2005 when she was a 22-year-old receptionist at a real estate company in Trump Tower. She encountered him outside an elevator in the building one morning. After she introduced herself, he "kissed me directly on the mouth," she told the Times.

Mindy McGillivray
McGillivray, 36, alleged that Trump grabbed her rear end in early 2003, during a one-day gig as a photographer's assistant at his Mar-a-Lago Florida resort. "All of a sudden I felt a grab, a little nudge," she told the Palm Beach Post. "I turn around and there's Donald. He sort of looked away quickly," she said.

Temple Taggart McDowell
McDowell, a former Miss Utah, told NBC television that Trump had kissed her on the lips when she was a 21-year-old contestant in his Miss USA beauty pageant in 1997. McDowell said she was introduced to Trump during a rehearsal by her father who was a fan of the real estate baron.

Cassandra Searles
Miss Washington 2013, Searles reportedly called Trump a "misogynist" in a Facebook post widely circulated on the media, and said in a comment that he "continually grabbed my ass and invited me to his hotel room" during the Miss USA pageant. Trump owned the pageant from 2002 to 2015.

Natasha Stoynoff
People Magazine published an account by a former staff writer, who said Trump forced himself on her when she interviewed him in 2005.  "Trump shut the door," Stoynoff wrote. "I turned around, and within seconds he was pushing me against the wall and forcing his tongue down my throat."

Jill Harth
Harth and her longtime boyfriend were in meetings with Trump to forge a business partnership in 1992, when he treated the couple to dinner at a club. He seated himself between them and proceeded to run his hands up her skirt, all the way to the crotch. "He was relentless," said Harth, who was 30 at the time.

Summer Zervos
Zervos was a contestant on Trump's former reality TV show "The Apprentice". In 2007, Trump arranged to meet Zervos at The Beverly Hills Hotel for dinner to talk about employment. Instead, she said, when she showed up she was taken to a bungalow and Trump started kissing and touching her. 

Kristin Anderson
A former aspiring model, Anderson told The Washington Post that Trump had sidled up to her in a nightclub in the early 1990s, reached under her skirt and touched her vagina through her underwear.  "I don't know why he did it. It was like just to prove that he could do it, and nothing would happen," she added.