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Wiz Imp

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6. The Real Estate Deal was in 2004, not 2019. It was reported on in 2019.
Mon Jul 21, 2025, 01:47 PM
Jul 21

They were "best friends" from the late 1980s until 2004. There is little if any evidence of any contact between the 2 after 2004.

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Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein partied together. Then an oceanfront Palm Beach mansion came between them.
July 31, 2019
For the better part of two decades starting in the late 1980s, Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump swam in the same social pool. They were neighbors in Florida. They jetted from LaGuardia to Palm Beach together. They partied at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club and dined at Epstein’s Manhattan mansion.

And then, in 2004, they were suddenly rivals, each angling to snag a choice Palm Beach property, an oceanfront manse called Maison de l’Amitie — the House of Friendship — that was being sold out of bankruptcy.

Before the auction, Epstein and Trump each tried to work the ref; the trustee in the case, Joseph Luzinski, recalls being lobbied by both camps.

“It was something like, Donald saying, ‘You don’t want to do a deal with him, he doesn’t have the money,’ while Epstein was saying: ‘Donald is all talk. He doesn’t have the money,’ ” Luzinski said. “They both really wanted it.”


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