Donald Trump in His Youth: Rare Photos From His Childhood
35. With Friends Like These…
Trump’s claim about Jeffrey Epstein liking women “on the younger side” has been heavily scrutinized in 2019 after Epstein was arrested in July 2019 for sex trafficking of minors in both Florida and New York. Rumors of Epstein’s pedophilia had swirled for decades. Trump and Epstein often partied together at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate, as seen here in 2000 sandwiched between Trump’s then-girlfriend Melania Knauss and British socialite Ghislaine Maxwell.
Trump and Epstein would have a falling out, however. The two wealthy financiers entered into a bidding war in 2004 for the Maison de l’Amitie, or House of Friendship. The oceanfront Palm Beach property was highly coveted and it was Trump who outbid the competition, which seemed to upset Epstein enough that they no longer spoke. Just four years after purchasing the property, Trump would sell the estate to Russian businessman Dmitry Rybolovlev.
