Michael Wolff says Epstein blamed Trump’s real estate 'betrayal' for their falling out: ‘He was furious’
Wolff: Now Epstein’s explanation for why this friendship ended is as follows.
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In 2004, Epstein believed himself to be the high bidder on a piece of real estate in Palm Beach—a house. His bid was $36 million.
He took his friend Trump around to see the house, to advise him on how… pic.twitter.com/5aRYqN8BNr
NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK: A controversial biographer has claimed that it wasn't about girls or lost employees, but a real estate "betrayal" that lit the fuse between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.
Journalist and author Michael Wolff, who’s made a career chronicling the life and times of President Trump, spilled the backstory in an interview with MeidasTouch. According to him, Epstein was livid not because Trump snubbed him socially, but because the latter snuck a huge mansion right out from under his nose.
Biographer claims Donald Trump blindsided Jeffrey Epstein with surprise $40 million bid on Palm Beach mansion
Back in 2004, Jeffrey Epstein thought he had locked down a lush Palm Beach property for $36 million. He was apparently so confident, he even gave Donald Trump a personal tour to help brainstorm how to relocate the house’s swimming pool.
“Trump, thereupon, went around Epstein’s back and bid $40 million for the house, and got the property,” Michael Wolff claimed.
Epstein, who was apparently “deeply involved with Trump’s scattered finances,” allegedly knew the then-future president didn’t have $40 million lying around. Wolff said Epstein was convinced the money actually came from Russian oligarch Dmitry Rybolovlev.
“Less than two years later, this same house that Trump had bought for $40 million was sold for $95 million, and it was, in fact, sold to Mr Rybolovlev,” Wolff added. “This is all a red flag for money laundering," he alleged.
Wolff said Epstein wasn’t just annoyed, he was furious.
Michael Wolff claims Jeffrey Epstein believed Donald Trump tipped off police, triggering his legal downfall
According to Michael Wolff, Jeffrey Epstein was so enraged, he started tossing around threats of lawsuits and media exposes. He accused Donald Trump of being a puppet in some shady laundering scheme and made it clear he wasn’t letting it slide. “There’s something about these guys that nothing rouses them so much as a real estate betrayal,” Wolff insisted.
According to the author, Epstein believed Trump flipped the script and turned him in.
“Trump panics at this point,” Wolff said, “and Epstein believed ... that it was Trump who went to the police ... and, as Epstein said, dropped the dime on him, that is to say, informed the police of what was going on and an investigation began and all of Epstein’s legal problems for the next 15 years began to unfold.”
Wolff said he laid all of this out in Siege, his second book on the Trump White House, released in 2019. He claimed Epstein did give it a read and panicked.
“He called me with some alarm, and he said he was afraid he might have said too much,” Wolff recalled. “Three weeks later, he returned to the United States from Paris and was promptly arrested on the tarmac of Teterboro Airport in New Jersey when his plane landed.”
Epstein eventually died by suicide in a New York federal prison after being hit with s*x trafficking charges.
Donald Trump says Jeffrey Epstein stole staff, not just crossed social lines
Donald Trump has long insisted he cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein because the guy was a “creep."
Last week, Trump team said Epstein got booted from Mar-a-Lago for creeping on young women at the club spa. Trump further revealed that Epstein was actually stealing staff.
He doubled down while speaking to reporters on July 29 aboard Air Force One.
“[It’s] the same thing, sort of. A little bit of the same thing,” Trump said. “He took people that worked for me, and I told him, ‘Don’t do it anymore.’ And he did it. And I said, ‘Stay the hell out of here,’” the president added.
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