Donald Trump Says Epstein 'Stole' Women Who Worked At Mar-a-Lago Spa

Last Updated:July 30, 2025, 07:27 IST

Donald Trump claimed Jeffrey Epstein "stole" spa workers, including Virginia Giuffre, from Mar-a-Lago, leading to Epstein’s ban from the club.

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US President Donald Trump on Tuesday alleged that disgraced financier and convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein “stole" young women who worked for the spa at Mar-a-Lago, his private club in Florida, and that one of those women was Virginia Giuffre, who was among Epstein’s most well-known sex trafficking accusers, the Associated Press reported.

This comes a day after Trump had said he had banned Epstein from his Florida club two decades ago because his one-time friend “stole people that worked for me."

Aboard Air Force One, while returning from Scotland, Trump said he was upset that Epstein was “taking people who worked for me." The women, he said, were “taken out of the spa, hired by him, in other words, gone."

“I said, listen, we don’t want you taking our people," Trump said. When it happened again, Trump said he banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago.

Asked if Giuffre was one of the employees poached by Epstein, he demurred but then said, “he stole her."

The White House originally said Trump banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago because he was acting like a “creep."

Giuffre died by suicide earlier this year. She claimed that Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s imprisoned former girlfriend, spotted her working as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago in 2000, when she was a teenager, and hired her as Epstein’s masseuse, which led to sexual abuse.

Although Giuffre’s allegations did not become part of criminal prosecutions against Epstein, she is central to conspiracy theories about the case. She accused Epstein of pressuring her into having sex with powerful men.

Maxwell, who has denied Giuffre’s allegations, is serving a 20-year prison sentence in a Florida federal prison for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse underage girls.

The US President has faced an outcry over his administration’s refusal to release more records about Epstein after promises of transparency, a rare example of strain within Trump’s tightly controlled political coalition.

Trump has attempted to tamp down questions about the case, expressing annoyance that people are still talking about it six years after Epstein died by suicide while awaiting trial, even though some of his own allies have promoted conspiracy theories about it.

Maxwell was recently interviewed inside a Florida courthouse by the Justice Department’s No. 2 official, Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, though officials have not publicly disclosed what she said.

Since then, the Trump administration has sought to present itself as promoting transparency, with the department urging courts to unseal grand jury transcripts from the sex-trafficking investigations.

A judge in Florida last week rejected the request, though similar requests are pending in New York.

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Vani Mehrotra

Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy News Editor at News18.com. She has nearly 10 years of experience in both national and international news and has previously worked on multiple desks.

Vani Mehrotra is the Deputy News Editor at News18.com. She has nearly 10 years of experience in both national and international news and has previously worked on multiple desks.

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