Howard Stern said Wednesday's satellite radio broadcast that if one more woman came out publicly to accuse GOP Presidential candidate Herman Cain of sexual harassment, he would consider staging a beauty pageant between them.
"If one more girl comes out who’s not anonymous," said Stern on air. "We could have a Herman Cain beauty pageant—the girls of Herman Cain. I would consider that.”
Lo and behold, a few hours after Stern made the statement, a new woman named Donna Donella stepped forward to corroborate claims of sexual harassment made by four other women.
<---See photos of the potential Herman Cain Accuser Beauty Pageant contestants here
Stern made tabloid history in March 2010 when he held a live on-air beauty pageant between three of the 15-odd women to come forward as mistresses of golfer Tiger Woods. The pageant featured $100,000 cash prize from married-and-cheating website AshleyMadison.com.
Photos: the Howard Stern Show Tiger Woods Mistress Beauty Pageant
When Howard Stern Show producer Gary "Baba Booey" Dell'Abate asserted that Cain's accusers might night be quite as attractive as Woods' bevy of porn stars and bikini models, Stern defended the idea:
"So," said Stern. "There's got to be a pageant for girls like that too."
Politico initially reported that two women left their jobs at the National Restaurant Association due to unwelcome sexual advance from Cain. The women were barred from talking about the harassment because of cash settlements they received in the case, but one was later identified as former INS spokesperson Karen Kraushaar. Kraushaar is now calling for a joint news conference with Cain's other accusers.
Sharon Bialek was the first woman to willingly come out to publicly accuse Herman Cain of sexual harassment. Bialek states that during an incident in 1997, Cain reached for her genitals and then asked her to perform oral sex in exchange for a job. Monday, Howard Stern Show writer Benjy Bronk crashed Bialek's press conference with Gloria Allred, who also represented several Tiger Woods mistresses.
Benjy Bronk crashes Herman Cain accuser's press conference (video)
Donna Donella is the fifth woman to accuse Herman Cain of sexual harassment, but only the third whose identity is known to the public. Donella told ABC News that she worked with Herman Cain on a presentation he gave in Cairo, Egypt in 2001. Donella stated:
"Shortly after he left the stage, he approached a colleague and myself and said something to the effect of, 'Could you please put me in touch with the lovely young woman in the audience who asked me the question so I can give her a more detailed answer over dinner?'"
Donella says that when she denied his request to act as matchmaker, he replied:
"Well then I'll have dinner with you because I hate to eat alone."
The Herman Cain Sexual Harrasment Accuser Beauty Pageant was originally proposed by Howard Stern Show media producer JD Harmeyer.
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