on november 28, 2017, villa filed a police complaint against trump's former campaign manager corey lewandowski for allegedly slapping her buttocks at a holiday party at the trump hotel in washington, d.c. villa admitted she waited a month before talking to police. villa alleged that after she told him that she could report him for sexual harassment, lewandowski said, "i work in the private sector" and slapped her again. lewandowski responded to the allegations by saying that "there is a due process and there is a process which they will go through to determine a person’s innocence."