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Trump 'squeezed my butt', former beauty queen says

A beauty queen has become the 12th woman to publicly accuse Donald Trump of sexual assault.

Former Miss Finland Ninni Laaksonen has claimed he groped her moments before a US television appearance on the Late Show with David Letterman in 2006.

She told a Finnish newspaper Ilta-Sanomat: “Trump stood right next to me and suddenly he squeezed my butt".

Donald Trump with Miss Puerto Rico, Miss Colombia, Miss Australia and Miss Finland at the Late Show with David Letterman. Image: Splash News
Donald Trump with Miss Puerto Rico, Miss Colombia, Miss Australia and Miss Finland at the Late Show with David Letterman. Image: Splash News

“I don’t think anybody saw it but I flinched and thought: ‘What is happening?’”

Laaksonen said she also attended house parties with the other contestants and Trump’s wife, Melania, who he had married the year before.

“Somebody told me there that Trump liked me because I looked like Melania when she was younger," she said.

“It left me disgusted.”

Trump has since defended the claims and said: “The stories are totally false".

It follows shocking claims over the past few weeks from other women claiming that Trump sexually assaulted them.

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