Trump ran a brothel staffed by underage girls at the Mar a Lago spa

1. What the recent statements actually say — “stole” spa workers, not an admission of running a brothel

When pressed in July 2025, Trump said he ended his friendship with Epstein because Epstein “stole” young women who worked at the Mar‑a‑Lago spa and specifically mentioned Virginia Giuffre as one of those hires ^{[1] [2]}. Multiple outlets reprinted that quote and framed it as Trump describing Epstein poaching or recruiting spa employees away from Mar‑a‑Lago ^{[3] [7]}. Those public comments are framed as describing Epstein hiring away employees — not as an explicit confession that Mar‑a‑Lago itself operated a prostitution ring or brothel staffed by minors ^[1].

2. What victims’ accounts and reporting say about Giuffre and Mar‑a‑Lago

Virginia Giuffre has been widely reported to say she was recruited while working as a spa attendant at Mar‑a‑Lago in around 2000 and later became a victim in Epstein’s trafficking network; many outlets repeat that background ^{[6] [2]}. Some reporting and court documents have presented Giuffre’s account as central to allegations about Maxwell and Epstein’s recruitment of young women from settings that included Mar‑a‑Lago ^{[8] [6]}. That reporting describes alleged recruitment and abuse but does not, in these sources, attribute management or operation of a brothel at Mar‑a‑Lago to Trump himself ^{[8] [6]}.

3. Documents and emails add allegations but are contested and limited

House Oversight documents and emails released from Epstein’s estate contain messages in which Epstein wrote that “Trump knew about the girls,” and pushed back against claims he’d been banned from Mar‑a‑Lago ^{[4] [9]}. Conservative and liberal outlets have both highlighted those lines as raising questions about what Trump knew; however, the emails are assertions by Epstein and do not constitute a legal finding that Trump ran or organized underage sex at Mar‑a‑Lago ^{[4] [5]}. Times Now and NBC summarised the emails as disputing Trump’s prior public portrayal of being unaware, but those are claims within Epstein’s private correspondence ^{[9] [4]}.

4. Longstanding associations and competing narratives about when and why ties ended

Reporting over years documents a social relationship between Trump and Epstein in the 1990s and 2000s, and multiple historians and journalists have noted episodes at Mar‑a‑Lago in which young women were present and Epstein interacted with members of that scene ^{[10] [11]}. Different accounts offer competing explanations for why Trump later distanced himself: some sources quote Trump saying he banned Epstein for hitting on a member’s teenage daughter or for being a “creep,” while other reportage and documents suggest the separation related to Epstein’s recruitment of spa attendants — and emails from Epstein challenge Trump’s public timeline ^{[8] [11] [4]}.

5. Photo and image claims — some viral images are fake; others genuine but not decisive

Several fact‑checks and reporting note that viral images purporting to show Trump, Epstein and underage girls have sometimes been AI‑generated and miscaptioned; at the same time, genuine photographs of Trump with Epstein exist, but images alone do not prove criminal conduct by a third party ^{[12] [13]}. Fact‑checkers caution that manipulated images circulate alongside authentic ones, complicating public understanding ^{[12] [13]}.

6. What available sources do not say or have not established

Available sources in the set do not present a court finding, criminal charge, or authoritative investigative conclusion that Trump “ran a brothel” at Mar‑a‑Lago staffed by underage girls. While Epstein’s emails, victim accounts (notably Giuffre’s), and years of reporting raise serious questions about recruitment at or related to Mar‑a‑Lago, the materials cited here stop short of documenting legal proof that Trump operated an organized brothel of minors ^{[4] [6] [1]}. If you’re looking for a legal finding or indictment using that specific phrasing, those are not in the provided reporting.

Summary assessment: reporting establishes that Epstein recruited women who once worked at Mar‑a‑Lago and that Trump has acknowledged a falling‑out on those grounds ^{[1] [2]}. Documents and email excerpts from Epstein allege Trump “knew about the girls” ^{[4] [5]}, but the sources provided do not support the precise claim that Trump ran a brothel staffed by underage girls at Mar‑a‑Lago.