Epstein was still a member of Mar-a-Lago months after his indictment

According to revelations published by The Daily Beast, internal Mar-a-Lago records show that Jeffrey Epstein remained an official member of Donald Trump’s private club until October 2007, more than a year after his indictment for sex crimes against minors.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump claims he got rid of Jeffrey Epstein for “stealing” his Mar-a-Lago staff. But club records raise new questions.

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These documents contradict the public version often put forward by Trump, according to which Epstein was excluded from Mar-a-Lago even before the first accusations were made against him, in 2006.

In his most recent explanations, Trump claims that he took this decision after Epstein “stole” female employees from his spa on two occasions. He finally admitted that Virginia Giuffre, one of the main victims of the Epstein network, was one of these employees, who had previously claimed to have been recruited by Epstein accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell while working at Mar-a-Lago.

According to The Grifter’s Club, a behind-the-scenes look at Mar-a-Lago, the authors consulted a membership list indicating that Epstein’s account wasn’t closed until October 2007, seven years after Trump claimed he “stole” Giuffre from him.

Virginia Giuffre, who died by suicide last April aged 41, had claimed to have been employed as a spa assistant at the Mar-a-Lago club in 2000, aged just 16, before being approached by Ghislaine Maxwell, who allegedly recruited her to supposedly work and travel alongside Jeffrey Epstein “around the world” “around the world”.