Overview

• President Trump said on July 29 that he expelled Jeffrey Epstein from Mar-a-Lago after the financier “stole” spa employees without permission.
• He told reporters that many of the taken workers were spa staff and identified Virginia Giuffre among those Epstein recruited.
• Virginia Giuffre served as a teen spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago, later became a leading Epstein survivor and died by suicide in April.
• The White House has resisted full public release of grand jury transcripts and other sealed records from the Epstein probe.
• The Justice Department has filed motions to unseal redacted materials while Congress negotiates potential immunity for Ghislaine Maxwell to obtain her testimony.