By Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck | CNN
(CNN) — Newly uncovered archived video footage and pictures reveal contemporary particulars about Donald Trump’s previous relationship with Jeffrey Epstein.
Images from 1993 verify for the primary time that Epstein attended Trump’s 1993 wedding ceremony to Marla Maples. Epstein’s attendance on the ceremony on the Plaza Lodge was not broadly identified till now.
As well as, footage from a 1999 Victoria’s Secret style occasion in New York reveals Trump and Epstein laughing and chatting collectively forward of the runway occasion. CNN’s KFile uncovered the uncooked footage throughout a evaluate of archival video of Trump at occasions within the Nineties and 2000s. Trump and Epstein appeared collectively in not less than one video among the many restricted archival footage reviewed.
The brand new footage and pictures, which haven’t been broadly reported and pre-date any of Epstein’s identified authorized points, come amid renewed scrutiny of Trump’s previous relationship with Epstein. The Justice Division’s current determination to not launch long-promised information associated to Epstein has spurred outrage in some corners of Trump’s MAGA motion, the place folks developed an expectation for bombshell revelations into Epstein’s alleged co-conspirators.
In a press release to CNN, White Home Communications Director Steven Cheung mentioned, “These are nothing greater than out-of-context body grabs of innocuous movies and photos of broadly attended occasions to disgustingly infer one thing nefarious.
Allegations that Epstein sexually abused underage women first surfaced in 2005, resulting in his arrest a yr later. He was arrested once more in 2019 on federal intercourse trafficking fees and later died in jail, fueling quite a few conspiracy theories. The health worker dominated his demise a suicide by hanging.
A previous relationship
Trump’s relationship with Epstein dates again to the Eighties and included common appearances at social occasions in Palm Seashore and New York. No legislation enforcement authorities have ever accused Trump of wrongdoing in relation to Epstein.
The 2 had a falling-out within the mid-2000s, in response to the Washington Put up, stemming from a dispute over a high-profile actual property deal in Palm Seashore.
Earlier than then, pictures and video repeatedly confirmed the 2 had been pleasant. In 2019, NBC posted footage of a celebration exhibiting Trump socializing with Epstein in 1992.
A yr later in October 1993, high-society photographer Dafydd Jones took pictures on the opening of the Harley Davidson Cafe in New York, capturing Trump and Epstein collectively.
“There was this guy there who struck me — the way he was looking — and he gave me his card. It said: Jeffrey Epstein, financial advisor,” Jones recalled in an interview with CNN this week.
Jones captured pictures of Trump together with his arm round his two younger kids as he stands subsequent to Epstein, leaning on a railing.
Two months later, in December 1993, Jones was assigned by a media group to {photograph} Trump’s wedding ceremony. Among the many pictures he took was one among Epstein getting into the occasion.
“I must have recognized him going in [to the event],” Jones mentioned to CNN, including he solely took choose pictures of attendees he thought regarded attention-grabbing.
“I wish now I took more of him with Trump,” he mentioned. “I had the job of photographing the Trump wedding, so I stood with the press and photographed him. The image you have is from the contact sheet — the negatives were lost.”
One other picture captures Epstein at Trump’s wedding ceremony, a part of LIFE’s archive that was reviewed by CNN. It reveals Epstein smiling within the background — his head simply seen between different visitors and shock jock Howard Stern and Robin Leach of “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,” who had been taking a bunch image.
LIFE’s assortment of dozens of pictures of Trump’s wedding ceremony can be found on-line by means of Google Photographs and Shutterstock, and a CNN evaluate of pictures discovered a number of pictures with Epstein.
Collectively at a style present
The 1999 style present wasn’t the primary Victoria’s Secret occasion the pair attended collectively. Two pictures from Getty Photographs present Trump and Epstein showing at a 1997 Angels celebration in New York, two years earlier than the footage uncovered by CNN.
Epstein’s presence on the 1999 style present additionally displays his longstanding ties to Leslie Wexner, the billionaire founding father of Victoria’s Secret’s mum or dad firm. Epstein managed Wexner’s funds from 1987 to round 2007. The 2 later severed ties, and Wexner has mentioned he was unaware of Epstein’s alleged crimes throughout their affiliation.
In 2002, Trump was quoted in a New York Journal profile of Epstein — “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery” — describing him as “a terrific guy,” saying he’s identified Epstein for 15 years. “It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side,” Trump mentioned.
Trump flew on Epstein’s jets between Palm Seashore and New York, not less than seven instances in response to flight logs.
In his 2004 guide, “Trump: How To Get Rich,” Trump wrote about taking a name from a person he named “the mysterious Jeffrey.”
“As mysterious as Jeffrey is, he’s one of the few people I know who can get by on just a first name. My staff never asks for a last name in his case, which in a way puts him up there with Elvis. Not that Elvis calls in much these days, but you never know,” Trump wrote.
It’s unclear if the “mysterious Jeffrey” is Epstein and White Home didn’t handle it in a remark to CNN.
Photographs printed within the Palm Seashore Put up in 2000 additionally present Trump, Epstein affiliate Ghislaine Maxwell — who’s at present serving a 20-year jail sentence for intercourse trafficking — and Prince Andrew in attendance at a charity fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago.
Final week, the Wall Avenue Journal reported on a birthday message despatched bearing Trump’s identify for Epstein’s fiftieth birthday in 2003. In accordance with the Journal, it contained an overview of a unadorned lady and a typed be aware that ended with the road: “Happy Birthday—and may every day be another wonderful secret.”
The Division of Justice additionally mentioned Tuesday it has reached out to Maxwell for a gathering amid backlash over the administration’s dealing with of information associated to Epstein.
Maxwell’s legal professional advised CNN they “are in discussions with the government” on the matter. “Ghislaine will always testify truthfully. We are grateful to President Trump for his commitment to uncovering the truth in this case,” legal professional David Oscar Markus mentioned.
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