A former beauty queen who says Donald Trump groped her at a 1993 pageant has leveled a new claim at the president’s first wife, alleging Ivana Trump helped funnel young women into Jeffrey Epstein’s orbit.
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Beatrice Keul, 55, a former Miss Switzerland and Miss Europe contestant, told the Daily Beast’s new Punch Up Substack that she believes Ivana acted as a “madam”-style figure in Epstein’s social world, on par with his convicted co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell.
In the final part of a three-part interview, Keul said she believes “Ivana played a major role in this whole cosmos, bringing in women in the same way as Maxwell.”
“Was Maxwell a madam or an enabler? However you would describe her, Ivana was the same,” claimed Keul.
Punch Up said it has not independently verified Keul’s account of Ivana and has seen no evidence she knew of or took part in any crimes. Ivana Trump, mother to Donald Trump Jr., Ivanka and Eric, died in 2022 at age 73 and was never charged with any Epstein-related offense.
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“So in today’s Substack, you make an astonishing allegation, reporting what Beatrice said about the involvement of Ivana Trump. Can you tell us a little bit more about that?” asked Joanna Coles, chief creative and content officer for The Daily Beast, of investigative reporter Tom Latchem.
Latchem noted Ivana Trump is from Eastern Europe.
“She was from Czechoslovakia, and a lot of the women who were trafficked were from Eastern Europe and around the world. They weren’t just young American women, many of these complainants. And she says that Ivana had a role,” he said.
Keul has previously alleged that Epstein tried to recruit her at Trump’s American Dream Pageant, telling her she was his intended “prey,” and that Trump assaulted and threatened her before warning her to stay silent. She first came forward in 2024, becoming the 28th woman to accuse Trump of sexual misconduct. He has denied every allegation.
The White House rejected Keul’s claims, with spokeswoman Abigail Jackson saying Trump “has been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein” and has “done more for Epstein’s victims than anyone before him.” Maxwell is serving 20 years for recruiting and abusing girls.
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