[POLITICO.EU] Gordon Sondland isn't backing down.
The U.S. ambassador to the EU, who has been at the center of Donald Trump
 ...The tack in the backside of the Democratic Party...
's impeachment scandal in Washington, has no intention of resigning over allegations of sexual misconduct, a close associate said Thursday.
Sondland has flatly denied the accusations, made by three women, who allege he engaged in inappropriate behavior years before he was named Trump's envoy to the EU.
"No intention of resigning," the associate said, in response to a question about whether Sondland believed he could still work effectively as a diplomat in Brussels given the distractions of the impeachment process, in which he has been forced to travel to Washington to testify, and the new allegations of inappropriate behavior.
The allegations by the three women were reported by Portland Monthly, a magazine in Sondland's home city of Portland, Oregon, and ProPublica, a New York-based nonprofit investigative news outlet.
All three of the women who accused Sondland of unwanted touching, in incidents that allegedly occurred between 2003 and 2011, agreed to be named in the report. One of them, Nicole Vogel, is the owner of Portland Monthly magazine, and said the unwanted touching occurred as she was trying to convince Sondland, a wealthy hotel developer, to invest in her company. 
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