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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDonald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein's relationship: A visual timeline
Aug 12, 2025
By
Em Steck, Andrew Kaczynski, Bob Ortega, Allison Gordon, Jhasua Razo, Maya Blackstone

(Photo Illustration Alberto Mier/CNN/Getty Images)
They flew together on a private jet, partied
side by side at Mar-a-Lago, appeared at
Victoria's Secret runway shows, and
reportedly dined with royalty at a luxury
Upper East Side townhouse.
Their names appear together in flight logs,
legal filings, phone messages-and in
photo after photo in the moneyed world of
Palm Beach and Manhattan.
President Donald Trump has long tried to
distance himself from Jeffrey Epstein, the
billionaire sex offender who died in a
Manhattan jail cell in 2019 while awaiting
trial on sex trafficking charges. Trump has
called him a "creep," insisted he was "not a
fan," and said that before Epstein's death
they hadn't spoken in years.
Yet a comprehensive CNN review of court records, photographs, interviews, and other public documents paints a portrait of an enduring relationship until the mid-2000s, when Trump says he broke it off. Trump now repeatedly downplays his past friendship with Epstein, even as new material continues to surface.
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https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/12/politics/trump-epstein-relationship-timeline-invs-vis
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Scrivener7
(60,078 posts)Blue Owl
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JoseBalow
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I bet drumpf really hates this photo

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