Donald Trump says Jeffrey Epstein ‘stole' young women, including Virginia Giuffre, from Mar-a-Lago

West Australian

15 hours ago

US President Donald Trump has disclosed fresh details about the breakdown of his relationship with convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein nearly 20 years ago.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One on Tuesday local time, Mr Trump explained that the rift occurred because Epstein was repeatedly hiring away employees who worked at the spa in the US President's Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida.
Mr Trump stated that he warned Epstein to stop taking his workers, but when Epstein persisted, Mr Trump expelled him from the club.
When asked if the staff Epstein took included young women, Mr Trump confirmed that they did and suggested that American-Australian national Virginia Giuffre, a known Epstein accuser, was among them.
'Everyone knows the people that were taken, and it was the concept of taking people that work for me is bad,' Mr Trump told reporters as he flew back to Washington after a five-day trip to Scotland.
'But that story has been pretty well out there, and the answer is yes, they were (young women).
'In the spa, yep, people that worked in the spa. I have one of the best spas in the world at Mar-a-Lago, and people were taken out of the spa. Hired by him. In other words: gone. Other people would come and complain, 'This guy is taking people from the spa,'' Mr Trump added.
'When I heard about it, I told him, I said, 'Listen, we don't want you taking our people', whether it was spa or not spa. I don't want him taking people. And he was fine, and then not too long after that, he did it again, and I said, 'Out of here'.'
Asked by a reporter if Giuffre was one of the workers taken from the spa, he replied: 'I don't know. I think she worked at the spa. I think so, I think that was one of the people, yeah. He stole her.'
Mr Trump added, 'By the way, she (Giuffre) had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever.'
Giuffre, who had recently reverted to her maiden name of Roberts, was one of the most prominent accusers of Epstein, revealing her allegations against him in 2011.
The mother-of-three successfully sued Epstein in 2015, alleging that he and convicted sex offender Ghislaine Maxwell, had sex-trafficked her when she was just 16 years old in 2000.
She also gained international attention when she alleged that she had sexual encounters with Prince Andrew when she was 17 years old.
Giuffre is believed to have died from suicide at a rural property in Western Australia on April 25.