Trump Sex-Assault Accuser Who Sued NJ Businessmen: 'How Can People Not Believe Me Now?'

A woman who filed and later dropped a $125 million sex-assault lawsuit against Donald Trump and two New Jersey casino employees says she feels vindicated now that similar allegations have surfaced.

Jill Harth, a makeup artist who worked with beauty pageants, told Inside Edition this week she was shocked by the recent revelation that the GOP presidential nominee made lewd remarks on a hot-mic. But she also said Trump's words were consistent with her own experiences.

Several women also have spoken to The New York Times and other publications this week, claiming Trump touched them inappropriately. Trump has strongly denied the allegations.

"It made me feel like, 'See? This is what I was saying,' "Harth said in an Inside Edition video interview (see below). "He's saying from his words what he does. How can people not believe me now? How can they not believe me now?"

When Harth heard Trump deny at Sunday's presidential debate that he's ever groped anyone, Harth told Inside Edition, she seethed.

"He lied," she said. "He lied and it made me angry."

Harth's account was first detailed in a lawsuit filed in federal court on April 30, 1997. The suit listed Trump, Nick Ribis and Roger Wagner as defendants. The latter two, both New Jersey residents, served at the time as executives for Trump's Atlantic City casinos. Patch obtained a copy of the case.

Ribis headed Trump's casino interests in Atlantic City, while Wagner, a Brigantine resident, was in charge of Trump Castle. Trump pulled out all of his investments in Atlantic City casinos by 2009.

On Jan. 24, 1993, Trump allegedly forced Harth into a bedroom at the billionaire's Mar-A-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Harth said she was subjected to "unwanted sexual advances" which again included touching of private parts "in an act constituting attempted 'rape.'"

In another meeting, in Atlantic City on July 16, 1993, Harth claims both Ribis and Trump demeaned her as a "sex object." She claimed both Ribis and Wagner were "co-conspirators" because they tried to cover up Trump's actions, she claimed in the lawsuit.

Here is a video of the Inside Edition interview:

Hope Hicks, a spokesman for the Trump campaign, referred Patch to a statement released to the media by Michael Cohen, Trump's executive vice president and special counsel, who called Harth's claims "absurd."

“Mr. Trump denies each and every statement made by Ms. Harth as these 24-year-old allegations lack any merit or veracity," he said.

The Trump campaign also forwarded an email from 2015 that shows a possible inconsistency in Harth's statements. The email shows Harth's recent support for Trump's presidential campaign and how she offered her services to his effort.

"He still looks great after all the time I've known him, since 1992, but I can make him look even better," she wrote in the Aug. 6, 2015, email to the Trump organization. "He has really nice skin and I remember it well, but I will make him look even younger and fresher and above all, NATURAL."

The allegations against Trump resurfaced this summer when Harth spoke to The Guardian about how Trump allegedly "pushed me up against the wall, and had his hands all over me and tried to get up my dress." Harth repeated the allegations in a New York Times article published last Friday entitled: "Donald Trump, Groper In Chief."

In The Guardian interview (see video below), Harth recalled how Trump urged her two decades ago to leave her then-boyfriend, George Houraney, after the couple tried to recruit Trump to back their American Dream beauty pageant festival.

"He constantly called me and said: ‘I love you, baby, I’m going to be the best lover you ever had. What are you doing with that loser? You need to be with me. You need to step it up to the big leagues,'" she told the publication, appearing with her attorney, Lisa Bloom.

Harth, who has not responded to interview requests from Patch, acknowledged that she has maintained a cordial relationship with Trump since she dropped her lawsuit about a month after it was filed in 1997.

Harth said she decided to speak to The Guardian after Trump’s campaign reached out to her after the Times story was published and pressured her to take back her account that was detailed in the lawsuit.

The Daily News reported that the lawsuit was dropped just before Trump settled another lawsuit with the American Dream Festival company, which claimed Trump had backed out of a deal to let it stage a beauty pageant in one of his Atlantic City hotels.

Harth, however, told The Guardian she ultimately decided to not pursue her case against Trump and keep quiet about the matter because she didn't want to risk humiliating herself.

"It's always a very fine line whether you make a stink, make a big deal. I didn't want to embarrass him in a way," she said. "I wanted to just deal with it and handle it. In retrospect, I wish I didn't."

Here is a video of that interview: