According to court records from 2012, Donald Trump allegedly fired female employees at his Trump National Golf Club in Rancho Palos Verdes, California, that he found unattractive then hired women he did find attractive.
"I had witnessed Donald Trump tell managers many times while he was visiting the club that restaurant hostesses were 'not pretty enough' and that they should be fired and replaced with more attractive women," Hayley Strozier, the director of catering at the club until 2008, said in a sworn declaration, according to the documents, the LA Times reported.
Strozier went on to say that managers would rework employees’ schedules to make sure that attractive women were working when Trump was at the club.
However, the Trump Organization said the allegations were “meritless.”
“Donald Trump always wanted good-looking women working at the club,” Sue Kwiatkowski, a club restaurant manager until 2009, said in a declaration, according to the lawsuit. “I know this because one time he took me aside and said, ‘I want you to get some good-looking hostesses here. People like to see good-looking people when they come in.’”
“We do not engage in discrimination of any kind and have always complied with all wage laws, including by providing our employees with meal and rest breaks,” Jill Martin, the Trump Organization’s assistant general counsel, told the LA Times.
The details of the lawsuit have come to light after Monday's heated debate with Hillary Clinton and comments regarding former 1996 Miss Universe Alicia Machado. It was revealed that he allegedly called her names such as "Miss Piggy" and "Miss Housekeeping."
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