The two allegedly traveled to New York in 2019 when Gaetz appeared on Fox News.
Republican Representative Matt Gaetz speaks at a campaign rally for Republican presidential nominee and former President Donald Trump in Henderson, Nev., Oct. 31, 2024., allegedly paid for two women in 2019 to travel to New York to have sex, watch his appearance on Fox News, and attend the Broadway show "Pretty Woman," an attorney for the women told ABC News.
"These are baseless allegations intended to derail the second Trump administration. The Biden Justice Department investigated Gaetz for years and cleared him of wrongdoing," Pfeiffer said of the allegations and the DOJ's decision not to bring charges, which the Justice Department began investigating during the first Trump administration.
Gaetz -- who was already allegedly with another woman in New York -- brought the women to visit Fox News studios, have dinner, and then to see the play "Pretty Woman," a show about a wealthy businessman who falls in love with a prostitute, the attorney said. According to Leppard, the men who attended the parties ranged in age from 30 to 50, while the women were between the ages of 19 and 21.
"They testified to Congress that the trip itself was payment," Leppard said, clarifying his clients were not monetarily compensated beyond their travel and expenses during that trip. "They did testify that everything they did was consensual, that they were never forced to do anything," Leppard said. "They did testify that the drugs sometimes impaired their judgment, and that they were expected to do drugs, but then they were never forced to do drugs, but that the drugs made it easier to do what they were doing."
" would ask using terms like 'vitamins,' or his favorite term was 'party favors.' So he might say, 'Who's bringing the party favors' ... or 'Make sure we have party favors,'" the attorney said.with prosecutors in May 2021 in which he pleaded guilty to multiple federal crimes including sex trafficking of a woman when she was a minor and introducing her to other "adult men" who also had sex with her when she was underage.
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