Overview
- The Wall Street Journal, citing former Mar-a-Lago and Epstein employees, reports the club’s spa routinely sent young workers to Epstein’s nearby Palm Beach mansion for massages and other services.
- Spa staff allegedly warned each other for years about Epstein’s behavior during house calls, including sexual comments and exposure.
- Former employees say a manager faxed Donald Trump in 2003 after an 18-year-old beautician reported Epstein pressured her for sex, and Epstein was then barred from the spa.
- The White House rejects the reporting as fallacies and insists the president did nothing wrong, while Trump has said he cut ties because Epstein was a “creep” or because he “stole” workers.
- Biographer Michael Wolff asserts the break owed to a 2004 real-estate dispute in Palm Beach, and federal releases of Epstein-related records are continuing.