when did trump kick epstein out of maralago
Trump has never given a clear public date for when he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, but the best available reporting and later comments place it in the early 2000s, often described as “about 20 years ago” from interviews given in 2025 (so roughly the early‑mid 2000s).
What Trump himself has said
Trump has repeatedly said that:
- Epstein was once a member/guest at Mar-a-Lago.
- They had a “falling out” after Epstein allegedly recruited or “stole” young women who worked at the Mar-a-Lago spa.
- After warning Epstein not to do it, Trump says he then told him he was “out of here” and banned him from the club.
In 2025 remarks on Air Force One, Trump said the split happened “about twenty years ago,” and specifically tied it to Epstein taking “young women” from the spa staff.
What reporting and books suggest
Multiple outlets and later books fill in more color but still not an exact calendar date:
- News coverage in 2025 notes that Trump claims to have blacklisted Epstein from Mar-a-Lago roughly two decades earlier over Epstein’s recruiting of spa workers, described as young women.
- Other reporting and book accounts (summarized in outlets like The Telegraph and others) say Trump banned Epstein after Epstein allegedly made advances toward a teenage daughter of a Mar-a-Lago member or a teenage staffer; again, this is described as happening years before Epstein’s 2008 Florida plea deal, so in the early‑mid 2000s.
None of these sources give a specific day, month, or even a single agreed‑upon year.
So, “when did Trump kick Epstein out of Mar‑a‑Lago?”
Putting it together:
- There is no publicly verified exact date (like “March 2003”) for Epstein’s ban from Mar‑a‑Lago.
- Trump and later White House statements in 2025 say it was around twenty years earlier , implying early‑mid 2000s.
- Some reporting pegs the reason as Epstein’s behavior toward a teenage girl at or connected to Mar‑a‑Lago, but still without a precise timestamp.
So the most accurate short answer is: Trump says he banned Epstein from Mar‑a‑Lago roughly twenty years before his 2025 comments—likely in the early‑mid 2000s—but there is no exact confirmed date in public records.
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