Overview

• On July 29 aboard Air Force One, President Trump accused Jeffrey Epstein of “stealing” spa employees from Mar-a-Lago and identified Virginia Giuffre among those taken.
• Trump said repeated poaching of his staff led him to ban Epstein from his Florida club around 2004 after warning him to stop hiring his employees.
• Virginia Giuffre worked at the resort’s spa as a 16-year-old before alleging Ghislaine Maxwell recruited her into Epstein’s network; she died by suicide in April 2025.
• A July 7 Justice Department memo concluded there was no broader “client list,” prompting Trump to file court motions between July 15 and 26 to unseal grand jury transcripts.
• Ghislaine Maxwell, serving a 20-year sentence, has been interviewed under limited immunity by Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and is scheduled to testify before Congress on August 11 under a House subpoena.