Were any lawsuits or police reports filed about Trump entering minors' changing areas and what were their outcomes?

Checked on December 16, 2025
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Executive summary

Available reporting documents multiple former Miss Teen USA and Miss USA contestants saying Donald Trump walked into dressing rooms while underage contestants were changing; those accounts were reported by BuzzFeed and cited by outlets including Teen Vogue, The Hill and Yahoo [1] [2] [3]. The search results do not show any specific criminal indictments, civil lawsuits or police reports tied to Trump personally over entering minors’ changing areas that resulted in convictions or settled claims in court in the material provided; available sources do not mention a legal filing against Trump on this precise allegation (not found in current reporting).

1. What the contemporaneous reporting says: pageant contestants’ accounts

Multiple news outlets summarized a BuzzFeed News investigation in which several former Miss Teen USA contestants said Trump walked into their dressing room while some contestants were undressing; the reports include first-person descriptions from women who said they were as young as 15 at the time [1] [2] [3]. These stories are journalistic accounts of allegations and recollections rather than records of a formal criminal complaint or civil suit reported in the documents supplied [1] [2] [3].

2. Legal action: what the provided sources do — and do not — show

The materials returned by your search include many lawsuits involving the Trump administration on policy matters (housing grants, immigration, health-care orders) and tracking resources for litigation against the administration [4] [5] [6] [7]. None of the supplied results, however, document a police report filed against Trump specifically for entering minors’ changing areas, nor a civil lawsuit against him on that narrow factual claim in the sources given; available sources do not mention such filings (not found in current reporting).

3. Historical context and why no public case may exist in these records

Reporting on the pageant incidents consists of survivor and witness statements published in the press; criminal charges or civil suits arising from decades-old incidents require evidence thresholds, statutes of limitations, jurisdictional choices and decisions by prosecutors or plaintiffs’ lawyers, matters not covered in the documents you provided [1] [2] [3]. The supplied corpus shows numerous high-profile legal battles involving Trump’s administration but does not include records of prosecutors or private attorneys bringing a case tied to these pageant-entering allegations [8] [7].

4. What public advocacy and fact-checkers have said

The search results include a PolitiFact article addressing circulated claims of settlements involving minors and Trump, which concluded it found no evidence for specific alleged child-sex settlements on social media; that piece highlights how some social claims have circulated without corroboration [9]. That context matters: public allegations and social-media lists have been repeatedly scrutinized by journalists and fact-checkers, and the supplied fact-check result shows scrutiny can overturn viral assertions [9].

5. Competing perspectives and implications for readers

Journalistic outlets reported the contestants’ allegations and included denials or lack of legal action where applicable; the supplied sources show reporters documented the accounts but did not document resulting criminal prosecutions or civil litigation against Trump on the specific charge of entering minors’ changing areas [1] [2] [3]. Some readers will view firsthand accounts as compelling and deserving of legal investigation; others will emphasize the absence of a public, adjudicated legal finding in the provided materials. Both viewpoints are supported by the documents in this search set.

6. Limitations of the available reporting and next steps for verification

This analysis relies solely on the search results you supplied and must therefore limit claims to what those items contain; they report pageant entrants’ allegations and many Trump-era lawsuits on policy matters but do not report police reports, indictments or civil judgments tied specifically to the allegations of Trump entering minors’ changing rooms [1] [2] [3] [4] [7]. To conclusively answer whether any police report, lawsuit or prosecution exists beyond these news accounts, review of court dockets, police-record databases and follow-up investigative reporting would be required — sources not included in your query (not found in current reporting).

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