President Donald Trump has provided new details about his falling-out with Jeffrey Epstein, stating that the convicted sex offender repeatedly poached young female employees from the spa at his Mar-a-Lago club—despite explicit warnings—and brazenly recruited underage Virginia Giuffre after being told to stop.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One in July 2025, Trump explained that Epstein “stole people that worked for me,” specifically young women from the spa. “I told him, ‘Don’t do it anymore.’ And he did it,” Trump said. When Epstein repeated the behavior, Trump banned him from the exclusive Palm Beach resort, declaring him persona non grata.
Trump confirmed that one of those employees was Virginia Giuffre, a prominent Epstein accuser who tragically died by suicide in April 2025. Giuffre, then 16 or 17, worked as a locker room attendant at Mar-a-Lago in the summer of 2000 before being recruited by Epstein’s associate Ghislaine Maxwell to become his “masseuse,” leading to years of alleged abuse.
“I think she worked at the spa… He stole her,” Trump stated, emphasizing that Giuffre had “no complaints about us, none whatsoever.” Court documents confirm Giuffre’s employment at Mar-a-Lago and her recruitment by Maxwell, though Trump said he was unaware of any illicit intent at the time.
This account marks an evolution from earlier White House statements calling Epstein a “creep” and prior reports citing Epstein’s inappropriate behavior toward a member’s teenage daughter as the ban’s trigger. Trump has long distanced himself from Epstein, noting they hadn’t spoken in years before the financier’s 2019 arrest.
No allegations implicate Trump in Epstein’s crimes. The revelation comes amid ongoing scrutiny of Epstein files, highlighting Trump’s early decision to sever ties.
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