Jeffrey Epstein was never a fee-paying member of President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida but routinely received home visits from staff members sent to provide massages and manicures, a new report has alleged.
Former employees of Trump’s Palm Beach estate have told The Wall Street Journal that the house calls took place around the late 1990s and early 2000s and “went on for years,” even as young female employees warned each other about Epstein’s predilection for “being sexually suggestive and exposing himself during the appointments.”
The former staff members told the WSJ that the house calls were an occasional service offered to spa members. Although Epstein was not a member, they said, they alleged that Trump had told them “to treat him like one” and that Epstein had an account, where appointments were booked for him by Ghislaine Maxwell, his accomplice and then-girlfriend.
Epstein’s relationship with Mar-a-Lago ended abruptly in 2003, according to the WSJ’s sources, when an 18-year-old beautician returned to the club and told its human resources team that he had pressured her for sex.
A manager responded by sending Trump a fax relaying the employee’s accusations against the wealthy financier and urged him to ban Epstein, to which the future president replied by saying it was a good letter and agreeing it was appropriate to sever ties. The beautician’s complaint was never passed on to Palm Beach police.
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