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Who are Trump accusers Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff?

Jessica Leeds and Natasha Stoynoff

Jessica Leeds was interviewed by CNN and Natasha Stoynoff was interviewed by People Magazine via ABC’s Nightline (Screenshots via YouTube)

In the same ruling allowing a jury to see the infamous “Access Hollywood” tape, a federal judge gave the green light for two other women accusing former President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct to testify against him in E. Jean Carroll’s lawsuit.

For Senior U.S. District Judge Lewis Kaplan, the accusations leveled by businesswoman Jessica Leeds and People magazine writer Natasha Stoynoff were too similar to Carroll’s to discount.

“Mr. Trump’s attempt to minimize the similarity between his alleged actions with respect to Ms. Leeds and Ms. Stoynoff, on the one hand, and Ms. Carroll on the other is not very persuasive,” the judge wrote in a 23-page opinion on Friday. “The alleged acts are far more similar than different in the important aspects. In each case, the alleged victim claims that Mr. Trump suddenly attacked her sexually. In the cases of Ms. Carroll and Ms. Stoynoff, he allegedly did so in a location after closing a door behind him, which gave him privacy. In all three cases, he allegedly did so without consent.”

Carroll alleges that Trump raped her in the dressing room of a Bergdorf Goodman store in the mid-1990s. She and the former president are preparing for trial in April, which the presiding judge said would amount to a “he said, she said” case.

“There will be no physical evidence supporting either side at trial,” Kaplan noted, adding that the credibility of Trump’s accusers will weigh heavily upon the trial.

At least 26 women have accused Trump of some form of sexual misconduct.

With a high-profile federal court showdown shining a light on three of those cases, Law&Crime breaks down Leeds’ and Stoynoff’s allegations — and how they may affect the Carroll v. Trump trial.

1. The women’s allegations against Trump span more than a quarter of a century.

The “Access Hollywood” tape nearly derailed Trump’s career when he boasted to Billy Bush about grabbing women “by the p—-.” Both women claim that Trump practiced what he preached in the video, in alleged incidents decades apart.

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Donald Trump and Billy Bush exit the bus in the ‘Access Hollywood’ tape. (Screenshot via NBC)

Leeds claims she had been seated next to Trump in a first-class seat on a flight from Texas to New York in 1979. After they finished an in-flight meal, Leeds says, Trump started “grabbing me, trying to kiss me, grabbing my breasts, pulling me towards him, pulling himself on me.”

“It was when he started putting his hand up my skirt that I realized that nobody was going to save me but me, and I was on the aisle, I managed to wheel my way out of the chair, and grabbed my purse, and I went back to my seat in the back,” Leeds testified in a deposition.

At a fundraising gala for the Humane Society of New York at Saks Fifth Avenue sometime later, Leeds said, she had been handing out seat assignments when Trump and his wife approached.

“I remember you. You’re that c— from the airplane,” Trump taunted, according to her testimony.

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