Overview
- The Wall Street Journal reports Mar-a-Lago’s spa routinely sent employees, usually young women, to Epstein’s Palm Beach home for massages and other services in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
- Former staff say an 18-year-old beautician returned from a 2003 house call alleging Epstein pressured her for sex, after which a manager faxed Trump and he directed staff to “kick him out.”
- Employees told the paper the allegation was shared with Mar-a-Lago’s human resources but not referred to Palm Beach police, who began investigating Epstein two years later.
- Ghislaine Maxwell allegedly booked Epstein’s spa appointments and used the club to recruit young workers for unauthorized side jobs, according to former employees.
- The White House calls the Journal’s account fallacious and maintains Trump did nothing wrong, noting he cut off Epstein’s spa access, as the DOJ continues rolling out Epstein-related records under a new disclosure law.