Epstein’s former model girlfriend claims disgraced financier and sex offender was once ‘best friends’ with Donald Trump
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein were “best friends” who were “up to no good,” a model who dated the disgraced financier claims, as the president tries to distance himself from the Epstein case.
They were “best friends,” Stacey Williams, who dated Epstein for several months in the 90s, told CNN on Friday evening. Last October in an interview with The Guardian, Williams publicly accused Trump of groping her in Trump Tower in 1993 in front of Epstein. He has denied these allegations.
“That was his bro, that was his wingman,” she said of Trump to Epstein.
Throughout the four or five months she dated the financier, Trump’s name came up a lot, Williams recalled to CNN’s Brianna Keilar. “The only friend that he would mention every time we saw each other or had a phone conversation was Donald,” she said. “They were very close and they were up to no good.”
Williams later added that Epstein also often mentioned Ghislaine Maxwell, a socialite and Epstein associate who was convicted in 2021 on charges related to her role in a scheme to abuse minor girls with the financier.
The Independent has reached out to the White House for comment.
Keilar read the alleged birthday card Trump wrote to Epstein for his 50th birthday that the Wall Street Journal first published Thursday. Trump vehemently denied the allegations and has since sued the publication and its parent companies for defamation.
Williams started laughing when Keilar walked through Trump’s response to the bombshell report.
“Trump called that letter ‘fake.’ He said it was out of character for him because he never ‘wrote a picture’…in his life,” Keilar said, quoting Trump’s denial.
Asked whether she believes this letter sounds “out of character” to her based on her experiences with both men, Williams replied incredulously: “What, are you kidding me? I know what they were up to together. It happened to me.”
“I have the post assault postcard with a love note,” she added, referring to a postcard of an aerial view of Mar-a-Lago she says Trump sent to her agent later in 1993. In what appeared to be black Sharpie, according to The Guardian, the card read: “Stacey – Your home away from home. Love Donald.”
“I know what they’re up to together and I know what that means,” Williams told the network. “It’s very clear it wasn’t baking or fishing.”
Williams and Epstein started dating after the second time they met. It was at a 1992 Christmas Party at the Plaza Hotel that Trump threw, she recalled.
Months later, she and Epstein were walking down Fifth Avenue. The financier “was joking about how Donald thought I was hot…and wants to talk to you” before suggesting they visit Trump at his office, she recalled.
