Trump Would Walk In on 'Half-Naked' Women, Pageant Contestant Says

Former Miss Arizona Tasha Dixon said Donald Trump walked into a dress rehearsal for the pageant in 2001 while the women were "half-naked" and the contestants were told to "fawn all over him," according to an interview.

The interview appears to match up with what Trump told Howard Stern in an interview in 2005 -- that he was "allowed to go in" to the dressing area backstage because he was "the owner of the pageant."

Trump has courted controversy recently for remarks made on tape in 2005 in which he can be heard bragging about groping women. Trump has since apologized for the remarks.

Tasha Dixon, who was 18 at the time, said Trump came "strolling right in" during a dress rehearsal for the Miss USA pageant in 200l, she told CBS2/KCAL. She said it was the contestants' first introduction to Trump, and that the women, were naked or half-naked in a “very physically vulnerable position."

Dixon said she decided to speak out after hearing recent audio released of Trump talking about women. She said she had never heard the remarks Trump told Stern before it was first published by CNN on Sunday along several other interviews in which Trump used crude language when referring to women.

Dixon also said that people who worked for Trump instructed the women to "walk up to him" and "fawn all over him," according to the report.

'Who do you complain to? He owns the pageant," Dixon said. "There's no one there to complain to. Everyone there works for him."

Trump owned the Miss USA pageant from 1998 to 2015, when it was acquired by talent agency WME-IMG, the pageant announced last year. Coincidentally, the theme of that 2001 pageant was "empowering women," KCAL reported.

Trump's deputy communications advisor, Jessica Ditto, said Dixon's accusations "have no merit and have already been disproven by many other individuals who were there."

"When you see questionable attacks like this magically put out there in the final month of a presidential campaign, you have to ask yourself what the political motivations really aer and why the media is pushing it," Ditto said. "Mr. Trump has a fantastic record of empowering women throughout his career, and a more accurate story would be to show how he's been a positive influence in the lives of so many."

Dixon alleged that Trump bought the pageant so he could use his power to "get around beautiful women." She declined comment on the issue further to ABC News.

Dixon's comments don't stray too far from a 2005 interview, when he told Howard Stern he would go backstage to make sure "everything is good." It was not clear which pageant he was talking about.

"Well, I'll tell you the funniest is that before a show, I'll go backstage and everyone's getting dressed, and everything else, and you know, no men are anywhere," Trump told Stern, "and I'm allowed to go in because I'm the owner of the pageant and therefore I'm inspecting it."

Trump said he would ask the women, "Is everyone okay?" and mentioned that they'd be "standing there with no clothes."

"And you see these incredible-looking women, and so, I sort of get away with things like that."

Trump made the comments while responding to Stern's question on whether he'd ever had sex with any contestants from the Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants.

"I never comment on things like that," Trump said, adding later that he wouldn't "want to hurt their feelings."

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