Who is Amy Dorris, former model who accused Trump of sexual assault?

Team Udayavani, Sep 18, 2020, 7:15 PM IST

Former Model Amy Dorris has accused President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her inside his private box at the US Open tennis tournament in 1997.

According to The Guardian, Dorris said that Trump grabbed her after she left a bathroom, touched her, and gripped her so she could not escape.

She said that Trump assaulted her outside a bathroom in his VIP box at the tournament on September 5, 1997. She was 24 at the time and is now 48.

Amy Dorris

Amy  Dorris was born on October 1, 1972 in Madison Heights, Michigan and is known for acting work in Any Given Sunday (1999), The Accidental Husband (2008) and Who’s Your Caddy? (2007).

Dorris is a former model who is now 48 and a mother to twin daughters. She lives in Florida. Amy said she met Donald Trump in New York in 1997.

Dorris was introduced to him by her then boyfriend, Jason Binn, who described the real estate mogul as his “best friend”.

As reported by The Sun, Dorris’s modelling career was based in Miami – where she also picked up the odd acting role and her boyfriend had started luxury fashion and lifestyle magazines.

She said that she wanted to come forward in 2016 when several other women also made similar accusations against Trump. But decided not to for the sake of her family. She is the 25th woman to have accused Trump of sexual misconduct.