And in2003 he got hip to Epsteins perversions and had him embarrassingly physically removed from Mar Lago. Sound like buddies to your dumb ass?
'cept that the timeline says otherwise - they severed ties 4 years after epstein ' stole ' the hired help.
The Epstein Files: A Timeline
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Article History
2000–04: From “terrific guy” to “persona non grata”
Key dates
- 2000: Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s associate, invites 16-year-old Virginia Giuffre to become Epstein’s masseuse.
- 2002: Trump says, in a magazine piece on the financier, that Epstein likes women “on the younger side.”
- 2004: Trump and Epstein’s friendship ends.
The Trump-Epstein relationship continued into the 2000s, including several key events that would capture public and media attention decades later
. In 2000 a 16-year-old named
Virginia Giuffre was working at Mar-a-Lago when Jeffrey Epstein’s long-time partner
Ghislaine Maxwell (pronounced Gee-Lane, with a hard
G) saw her reading a massage manual and invited her to become Epstein’s masseuse. Giuffre, who would sue Epstein in 2009 and Maxwell in 2015, said Epstein and Maxwell then recruited her into a sex-trafficking ring during which she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” to Epstein’s influential friends. Giuffre may have been at the center of the eventual collapse of the relationship between Donald Trump and Epstein. Trump said in July 2025 that the falling out was because Epstein “did something that was inappropriate. He hired help, and I said, ‘Don’t ever do that again.’ He stole people that worked for me.…And I threw him out of the place, persona non grata.” Trump later made clear that he was referring to Giuffre and others. A
White House spokesperson said earlier in July, “The fact is that the President kicked him out of his club for being a creep.”
However, The Washington Post had previously reported that the friendship ended over a business deal that turned nasty. In late 2004 Epstein and Trump bid against each other for a key piece of Palm Beach real estate, an oceanfront estate ironically named Maison de l’Amitie, or “House of Friendship.” Trump ultimately won the property at auction for more than $41 million in what the trustee of the auction called “two very large Palm Beach
egos going at it.”
Regardless of the cause, it is clear that by the end of 2004 the friendship had fractured.
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