President Trump threw a party in 1992 that was attended by 28 young women from a ‘calendar girl’ competition and just one guest – Jeffrey Epstein.
The New York Times reports that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, put the event together at the behest of President Trump, and was shocked at what he saw when he arrived at Mar-a-Lago that night.
‘I arranged to have some contestants fly in. At the very first party, I said, “Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.” It was him and Epstein,’ said Houraney.
‘I said, “Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?”‘
That friendship would pay off years later according to Epstein, who claims to have introduced President Trump to his now-wife Melania.
Double date: Jeffrey Epstein has told people for years that he was the person who first introduced President Trump to his wife Melania (Trumps, prior to their marriage, with Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell at Mar-a-Lago in 2000)
Palls: ‘I arranged to have some contestants fly in. At the very first party, I said, “Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.” It was him and Epstein,’ said Houraney (Epstein and Trump in 2000)
Houraney also said that he warned President Trump about Epstein, telling him that he ‘pretty much had to ban Jeff from my events.’
President Trump did not seem concerned though according to Houraney.
‘I said, “Look, Donald, I know Jeff really well, I can’t have him going after younger girls,”‘ recalled Houraney.
‘He said, “Look I’m putting my name on this. I wouldn’t put my name on it and have a scandal.”‘
Houraney was partners with Jill Harth at the time, both professionally and romantically, who would go on to file a lawsuit against President Trump claiming he sexually harassed her for years after their first meeting.
President Trump has denied that allegation.
He would eventually ban Epstein from the club, though he was never an actual member.
A former campaign worker said that he was told this ban was put in place when President Trump learned that Epstein had tried to recruit one of his workers.
And the relationship between the two soured to the point that Epstein actually blamed President Trump for the investigation into his alleged sexual abuse of young girls.
President Trump finally commented on Epstein’s arrest Tuesday afternoon while speaking to the media at the White House, saying: ‘I had a falling out with him a long time ago. I wasn’t a fan. I was not a fan of his. That I can tell you.’
He went on to refer to Epstein as a ‘fixture in Palm Beach.’
At least two women who would file lawsuits against Epstein claim that they were recruited at the Palm Beach Club by the pedophile and Ghislaine Maxwell.
Epstein entered a not guilty plea on Monday just hours after it was revealed that an ‘extraordinary volume of photographs of nude and partially-nude young women or girls’ was discovered by agents over the weekend during their search of Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.
Federal prosecutors detailed some of the other evidence discovered inside the home in the bail memorandum, which requests that Epstein remain in prison ahead of trial.
That listed ‘documents and other materials, such as contemporaneous notes, messages recovered from the defendant’s residence that include names and contact information for certain victims, and call records that confirm the defendant and his agents were repeatedly in contact with various victims during the charged period. ‘
Day in court: Epstein entered a not guilty plea to charges of sex trafficking on Monday in federal court, for his alleged sexual abuse of three minors (l to r: Martin Weinberg, Epstein, and Marc Fernich)
Meanwhile, the search uncovered ‘at least hundreds—and perhaps thousands—of sexually suggestive photographs of fully- or partially nude females.’
A number of those photographs ‘appear to be of underage girls, including at least one girl who, according to her counsel, was underage at the time the relevant photographs were taken.’
It is also noted that some photos were discovered in a locked safe, where agents ‘also found compact discs with hand-written labels including the following: “Young [Name] + [Name],” “Misc nudes 1,” and “Girl pics nude.”‘
The indictment against the billionaire pedophile was unsealed on Monday morning, and states that Epstein ‘enticed and recruited, and caused to be enticed and recruited, minor girls at his mansion in Manhattan and his estate in Palm Beach to engage in sex acts with him.’
There were dozens of these underage girls according to the indictment, who would receive hundreds of dollars after being forced into sex acts or, as the indictment states, finding others to engage ins ex acts with Epstein.
‘Moreover, in order to maintain and increase his supply of victims, Epstein also paid certain of his victims to recruit additional girls to be similarly abused by Epstein, reads the court filing.
‘In this way, Epstein created a vast network of underage victims for him to sexually exploit.’