The relationship between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein from the 1990s to today
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein looked like friends in the 90s and early 2000s, but they didn’t talk about it for the 15 years after Epstein’s death.
Long before Little Black’s book, before the theory of plot, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump committed suicide in prison and ascended to the White House, were New York City poster boys in the 90s.
party. Model. A mansion.
They danced with cheerleaders at Mar-A-Lago and dined with celebrities in Manhattan. Trump was flying Epstein’s private jet between New York. There, they lived apart by Brock – and owned a mansion two miles from each other in Florida. Their lives have crossed for decades, with Epstein claiming that he once introduced Trump to his third wife, Melania.
“Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were both horny rich people with an eye on younger models,” Michael Gross, author of the 1995 book “Model: Beautiful Women’s Ugly Business,” told USA Today. Now their friendship is worrisome for Trump’s second term at the White House.
Trump has not been accused of fraud in the Epstein case, but he is one of dozens of politicians, actors and technical leaders associated with the billionaire who was first convicted of a teenage girl for sexual activity in 2008. Epstein died before he went to trial on these charges.
After nearly six years of death, Epstein now controls Trump’s agenda since he tried to close his book on the lawsuit after the White House and the Justice Department spent years claiming that the president and his closest allies (the Attorney General and FBI Director) had suppressed Epstein’s “Client List” and evidence of abuse of child abuse.
“We know almost everything we know about Epstein’s files. The story isn’t Epstein anymore. Donald Trump is talking about Epstein,” he said, “The storm is above us.
Trump’s Magazine movement rebelled after being promised a crazy Epstein revelation from the very staff who now say there’s nothing.
On July 22nd, R-Louisiana chairman Mike Johnson sent the House of Representatives for an early summer break to prevent the passage of bipartisan measures to force the DOJ to release the Epstein document.
“GOP is not talking about Epstein and is intended to not release any details. I wonder if there are any things I don’t want to release,” Rothschild said. “It starts pointing you towards conspiracy theory.”
On July 22, Trump said Epstein’s rage was “like a witch hunt” and opposed former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama.
A day later, the Wall Street Journal and CNN reported that Attorney General Pambondy told Trump in May that he had been nominated multiple times in Epstein’s government files.
But long before Epstein’s beliefs and questions about who wants to fill his secrets, he and Trump were charter members of the decadent New York party scene.
When Donald met Jeffrey
Epstein and Trump are believed to have met in 1990 when Epstein purchased a two-mile mansion from Trump’s Marlago Club and Real Estate.
Epstein, who was distinguished in New York for seven years, was Trump, a Brooklyn native and Queens native. They partyed hard, but neither of them drank alcohol.
Trump lived a loud voice in 1990. He divorced his first wife, Ivana, and had three children and was dating model Mala Maples. Epstein was rich and single. The former high school teacher ran his own financial advisory company.
Trump was known for hosting parties at the Plaza Hotel, which he owned at the time.
“If they were checking their IDs, it was to make sure the girls were young enough,” jokingly said Gross, who Trump has known for over 40 years.
Simply inviting models to an event was not enough. Trump started his agency and Epstein invested in one.
Trump launched the Trump model in 1999. It represented Melania Nauss, who later became his wife, and signed teenage models such as Alexia Palmer.
Epstein later invested in Jean-Look Brunel’s MC2 modeling agency. Brunel was banned by previous European institutions after the accusations of abuse.
Trump and Epstein were “the representatives of the edge of the modeling business. If you’re in the women’s market, if you’re in the market as adult toys, that higher class is a model. They are beautiful women by definition. They are also beautiful young women.” “You can go from there.”
Brunel was suspected of transporting girls and young women for Epstein. Less than three years after Epstein’s death, in 2022, he died of suicide in a French prison.
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“The rhythm is the dancer.”
In July 2019, after Epstein was arrested on federal sex trafficking charges, Trump said in his oval office that he was “not a fan” of investors. But that wasn’t always the case.
In 1992, Epstein joined Trump for a party at Mar Arago. There, the video shows Trump chatting and laughing next to Epstein. Trump is swaying with cheerleaders of the Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins, causing him to swing into the Eurodance hit “Rhythm is Dancer.”
Later that year, Trump and Epstein were to meet again at María Lago, an invitation-only event for the “Calendar Girl” competition hosted by George Haranney, according to the New York Times. Florida businessman created the event on Trump’s request.
“At the first party,” Haranie told The Times, “I said, “Who’s coming tonight? It was him and Epstein.”
Epstein moved to one of Manhattan’s largest private homes in 1995. This is a townhouse previously owned by Les Wexner, the secret owner of billionaire Victoria. Trump was a mile away at the Trump Tower penthouse.
“Amazing man,” he famously told New York magazine in 2002 for calling the story, known as Epstein, the “Mystery of Mystery.”
“He’s so much fun being with him,” Trump said. “He likes beautiful women just like me, and it’s been said that many of them are on the younger side.”
“I’m going to run away from things.”
When his modeling agency never took off, Trump turned to the beauty pageant. In October 1996 he purchased Miss Universe, Miss USA and Miss Teen USA.
In a 2005 interview with Howard Stern, Trump boasted about his access to contestants.
“I went backstage before the show, everyone was dressed and ready, and everyone else was nowhere.
“The girls are standing there because they’re not dressed, so I should stop doing that,” he said.
Tasha Dixon competed in the Miss America pageant in Gary, Indiana in 2001, when former Arizona Miss Arizona met Trump. He came in, she told CNN. The competitors have been transformed into their bikini.
The theme of the year was empowering women.
“Who do you complain to? He owns a pageant,” she said.
When Trump approached his third marriage, and the issues he denied, and the original Playboy Playmate – court testimony shows that his friend Epstein was abusing the teenager.
In the summer of 2000, a 16-year-old Mar-a-Lago locker room assistant was hired by Epstein’s circle by Epstein’s procurement and ex-girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell. She would later accus Epstein of being sexually abused for years. Virginia Giuffre died of suicide at the age of 41 last April.
The 2008 plea agreement Epstein received from state and federal prosecutors in Florida included compensation for 36 victims. The 2019 federal accusation cited “dozens” of victims.
division
In 2003, the Wall Street Journal reported that Epstein received a large amount of leather-bound tribute from a friend on his 50th birthday. The book’s obscene message stems from Trump, the paper reported. It’s over: “Happy birthday – and every day may be another great secret.” (Trump refused to write a letter and sued the Wall Street Journal for the report.)
A year after Epstein turned 50, Trump explained in his book Trump – How to Get Rich, a call from someone he called “mysterious Jeffrey.”
“As as mysterious as Jeffrey, he is one of the few people I know and can be obtained by mere name,” Trump wrote. “My staff never asks for a last name in his case.
But that year, Epstein and Trump fell into an oceanfront mansion in Palm Beach, known as the Maison des Amity – the House of Friendship. Trump outperformed Epstein for real estate, paying $41 million and flipping it over to a Russian billionaire in 2008 for $95 million.
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Attorney General Pam Bondy reportedly notified President Donald Trump in May that his name had appeared in Epstein-related files.
Other reports say they broke after Ghislaine Maxwell seeks the daughter of a Mar-a-Lago member and her father sues Trump.
“The fact is that the president kicked him out of the club because he was a creep,” said Stephen Chong, White House communications director.
Maxwell is currently sentenced Epstein to 20 years in prison for trafficking minors for sexual abuse. When asked if Maxwell would cut his deal with prosecutors after his 2020 arrest, Trump said, “I really hope for her.” On July 24th, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, formerly serving as Trump’s criminal defense lawyer, flew to Florida to meet Maxwell in the women’s prison.
“Boying things”
It appears Trump and Epstein haven’t spoken about his death for 15 years.
As Epstein continues to make his presidency a dog, Trump says he is embarrassed by the attention.
“I don’t understand whether the Jeffrey Epstein case is interesting to anyone,” he told reporters. “It’s pretty boring.”
Laura Trujillo is a national columnist focused on health and wellness. She is the author of “Back from the Shelf: A Daughter’s Truth and the Exploration of Updates” and can be contacted at ltrujillo@usatoday.com.
