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Salma Hayek claims Trump repeatedly called her asking for dates

By Web Desk
October 22, 2016

NEW YORK: Hollywood actress Salma Hayek claims Trump harassed her for a date then planted a nasty magazine story when she rejected him, as eleventh woman comes forward to accuse The Donald of sexual misconduct.

In an interview with Spanish radio El Show del Mandril, Hayek, 50, said that she was reportedly approached by Trump who asked her to go out with him. When she refused he planted a story about her in a magazine which said Trump would never date Hayek because she was too short.

Hayek said when he approached her she had a boyfriend. But he repeatedly asked her to go out with him. Later he befriended her boyfriend in a bid to get her phone number from him. She said he called her several times even when she said she did not want to go out with him.

Hayek is married to a French businessman Francois-Henri Pinault. In 1991 she moved to the United States from Mexico to seek a career in the Hollywood.

The actress has been a vocal critic of Trump and reacted strongly to his statement of wanting to build a wall around Mexico.