The "known" Trump-Epstein-Maxwell Timeline:
Via CNN
1985
Donald Trump purchases Mar-a-Lago, an oceanfront estate in Palm Beach, Florida. It is renovated and opens as a private club
1987
Trump and Jeffrey Epstein’s relationship begins, according to Trump in a 2002 profile on Epstein in New York Magazine.
1989
Trump attends a party on a yacht called the “Lady Ghislaine,” owned by billionaire Robert Maxwell. His daughter Ghislaine Maxwell, a British socialite, is among the guests at the party, according to newspaper reports.
September 1990
Epstein buys a mansion in Palm Beach, Florida, about two miles from Mar-a-Lago, according to property records.
1991/1992
After the death of Maxwell’s father, she and Epstein begin their public association, according to The Evening Standard, which described him as “a mysteriously wealthy New York money manager.”
November 1992
A video from NBC – released in 2019 – shows Trump and Epstein partying at Mar-a-Lago with Buffalo Bills cheerleaders and other guests. The two men talk while watching women on the dance floor. Trump appears to say to Epstein, “Look at her, back there ... she’s hot,” while Epstein smiles and nods.
December 1992
Epstein attends a Christmas party thrown by Trump at the Plaza Hotel, according to swimsuit model Stacey Williams, via the New York Times last year. Williams told CNN in 2025 that she began dating Epstein after that party.
ALLEGATION
January 1993
Trump has a “calendar girl” party at Mar-a-Lago with just two other male guests, Florida businessman George Houraney and Epstein, according to Houraney and his girlfriend at the time, Jill Harth. Later, Harth said in a 1997 lawsuit that during a business dinner at Mar-a-Lago, Trump took her to a private area, forcibly kissed her, fondled her, and restrained her from leaving a bedroom. Trump settled the lawsuit and has denied the allegations.
ALLEGATION
1993
Epstein and Williams visit Trump at Trump Tower in Manhattan, according to Williams. Williams told CNN this year that, as they stood outside his office, Trump groped her. “His hands were all over me. They were on my breasts. They were on my butt. They were on my hips, up and down while the two of them just kept having a normal conversation.” Trump’s campaign denied in 2024 that this happened and told the New York Times the allegations are “unequivocally false” and politically motivated. Williams described Epstein and Trump as “very close,” and said Trump “was his bro... his wingman. It was clear.”
1993
Trump flies with Epstein and Maxwell on Epstein’s private jet four times — on April 23, April 26, October 11 and October 17 — between the Palm Beach and Teterboro, N.J., airports, according to flight logs made public in 2021 during Maxwell’s sex-trafficking trial.
October 1993
Trump and his children Eric and Ivanka are photographed with Epstein at the Harley Davidson Cafe opening in New York City.
December 20, 1993
Epstein attends Trump’s wedding to Marla Maples in New York at the Plaza Hotel.
May 15, 1994
Trump flies on Epstein’s jet twice, per flight logs, with his then-wife Marla Trump, daughter Tiffany Trump, and a nanny from Palm Beach, Florida, to Washington, D.C., then later with one additional person from D.C. to Teterboro, N.J.
ALLEGATION
1994/1995
In a lawsuit filed against Epstein's estate in 2020, a woman who accused Epstein of sexual abuse and exploitation said that when she was 14 years old, he took her to Mar-a-Lago and introduced her to Donald Trump, saying, “This is a good one, right?” Trump “smiled and nodded in agreement,” the suit alleges. The lawsuit, which does not accuse Trump of any abuse, is later dismissed. The White House did not respond to a request for comment on the allegation.
1995
Maria Farmer, an artist who worked for Epstein, told CNN that Trump once “stood over me in a very imposing way” outside Epstein’s office. She said Epstein then told Trump, “She’s not here for you,” and Trump joked, “Oh, I thought she was 16.” A White House spokesman denied Farmer’s account to the New York Times, saying “the president was never in his [Epstein’s] office. Farmer, who later accused Maxwell and Epstein of sexually assaulting her, also described Trump and Epstein as “best friends.”
March 19, 1995
Epstein is photographed with another guest at a reception at Mar-a-Lago.
August 13, 1995
Trump and his son Eric accompany Epstein, Maxwell and others on a flight from Palm Beach to Teterboro, according to Epstein flight logs.
1995
Epstein and Maxwell are photographed with other guests at a party at Mar-a-Lago.
January 5, 1997
Trump flies with Epstein, Maxwell and four others from Palm Beach to Newark, New Jersey, on Epstein’s private jet, according to flight logs.
February 22, 1997
Epstein is photographed with another guest at Mar-a-Lago.
April 28, 1997
Trump is photographed with a model at the Victoria’s Secret Angels event in New York with Epstein in the background.
October 1997
Trump pens a personal note to Epstein inside a copy of his book “Trump: The Art of the Comeback,” which reads, “To Jeff — You are the greatest!” according to The New York Times.
October 30, 1997
Trump is photographed with Maxwell at a Ford Modeling Agency anniversary party.
1997
Epstein and Trump are photographed together at Mar-a-Lago.
February 3, 1999
Video shows Epstein and Trump chatting before a Victoria’s Secret fashion show in New York. They later sit near each other in the front row.
April 1999
Trump attends a dinner at Epstein’s Upper East Side mansion, with Maxwell serving as Epstein’s hostess, according to the New York Post, which says Prince Andrew was also in attendance. An ad for Trump's Atlantic City casino appears on the same page.
UNDATED 1990s
Trump and Epstein are seen with James Brown, possibly in Atlantic City in the 1990s, in a photo published by the New York Times.
February 2000
Prince Andrew and Maxwell fly on Trump’s jet to Mar-a-Lago, according to the British tabloid The Mail on Sunday.
February 2000
Trump, Epstein, Maxwell and Melania Knauss — the future first lady — are photographed at Mar-a-Lago.
June 2000
Virginia Roberts Giuffre, a 16-year-old working as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago, is approached by Maxwell to give Epstein a massage at his mansion. Giuffre alleges that over the next two years, Maxwell and Epstein groomed and sexually assaulted her. She alleges that they forced her to have sex with other men, including Prince Andrew, who denied the allegation and later settled a lawsuit she filed against him. In July 2025, Trump would tell reporters that part of his falling out with Epstein was because Epstein “stole people that worked for me” from Mar-a-Lago. Giuffre died by suicide in April 2025.
September 2000
Trump and Maxwell are photographed sitting next to each other in the front row of a fashion show in New York.
October 31, 2000
Trump and Melania Knauss join Maxwell and Prince Andrew at Heidi Klum’s annual Halloween party, per newspaper reports.
December 2000
Trump and Epstein attend a birthday party. Melania Knauss and Maxwell are also in attendance, according to newspaper reports.
October 28, 2002
In a New York Magazine profile of Epstein — “Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery” — Trump describes him as “a terrific guy,” saying he’s known 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 said.
November 2002
Trump, Maxwell, Melania Knauss and model Naomi Campbell are photographed at the opening of Dolce & Gabbana in New York.
January 2003
Maxwell collects letters from dozens of Epstein’s friends to create a 50th birthday album. One of the messages, according to the The Wall Street Journal, bears Trump’s name. The letter contains an outline of a naked woman and a typed note that ended with the line: “Happy Birthday — and may every day be another wonderful secret.” In July 2025, Trump denied authoring the letter and sued the Wall Street Journal for defamation.
March 2003
Trump attends a dinner party at Epstein’s New York townhouse, according to a Vanity Fair article and a New York Magazine gossip piece.
2004
In his 2004 book, “Trump: How To Get Rich,” Trump wrote about taking a call from a man he named “the mysterious Jeffrey.”
Source: "Trump: How to Get Rich"
November 15, 2004
Epstein tries unsuccessfully to block Trump from participating in an auction for a foreclosed property in West Palm Beach. Trump wins the property with a bid of $41.35 million.
November 2004
Trump leaves two messages for Epstein, according to message pads seized from Epstein’s Palm Beach property.
March 2005
Police in Palm Beach open an investigation into Epstein after the parents of a 14-year-old girl say he paid her for a massage.
July 19, 2006
A grand jury in Palm Beach County indicts Epstein on one state felony charge of solicitation of prostitution.
July 2007
Prosecutors reporting to Alex Acosta, then-US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, negotiate a deal with Epstein to plead guilty to two state charges, serve a prison term, and register as a sex offender. In exchange, federal prosecutors agree to drop their investigation and sign a non-prosecution agreement granting Epstein and “any potential co-conspirators" immunity against future federal charges. Prosecutors also agree not to inform Epstein’s victims about the plea deal, which is filed under seal. Trump would appoint Acosta as his Labor Secretary in 2017.
October 2007
Epstein is removed from the membership roster at Mar-a-Lago, according to the 2020 book, “The Grifter’s Club,” written by four investigative reporters from the Miami Herald and the Wall Street Journal. In 2025, Trump maintained that he broke with Epstein after he “stole” Mar-a-Lago workers around the year 2000. But the book reported that Epstein remained a member for several years after that purported break, and for more than a year after he was indicted on state prostitution charges. The Trump Organization acknowledged Epstein spent time at the club but denied that he was a member, the authors said.
November 30, 2007
Acosta, the US attorney handling Epstein’s case, emails Epstein defense attorney Kenneth Starr, stating, “I am directing our prosecutors not to issue victim notification letters.”
June 30, 2008
Epstein is sentenced to 18 months in a minimum-security prison after pleading guilty to state charges of solicitation of prostitution and of solicitation of prostitution with a minor under the age of 18. Despite Epstein registering as a sex offender, the deal allows him to leave prison each day for 12 hours on a work-release.
July 22, 2009
Jeffrey Epstein is released from prison after serving 13 months.
2009
Attorney Brad Edwards, who represents many of Epstein’s victims, said in a 2018 interview that Trump gave him helpful information in 2009. “He is the only person who picked up the phone and said, ‘Let’s just talk. I’ll give you as much time as you want. I’ll tell you what you need to know.’” Edwards said that Trump “gave no indication whatsoever that he was involved in anything untoward whatsoever, but had good information that checked out and that helped us."
March 17, 2010
In a videotaped deposition filed in state circuit court in Palm Beach, Epstein refuses to answer many questions about his association with Trump, including when asked, “Have you ever socialized with Donald Trump in the presence of females under the age of 18?”
March 2011
The Mail on Sunday publishes Giuffre’s account of being sexually abused and trafficked by Epstein and Maxwell. The report describes Epstein as a “Wall Street money manager who once counted Bill Clinton and Donald Trump among his friends.” Maxwell and Epstein deny Giuffre’s allegations.
February 2015
Trump, speaking with Bloomberg News after the Conservative Political Action Conference, brings up Jeffrey Epstein when attacking Bill Clinton. “Well, I think he’s got a problem... That Island was really a cesspool, there’s no question about it – just ask Prince Andrew,” Trump says, referring to a private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands owned by Epstein.
November 8, 2016
Donald Trump is elected the 45th president of the United States.
November 2018
The Miami Herald publishes a bombshell series of articles featuring Epstein’s victims on record for the first time. It reveals details about what the paper called “the deal of a lifetime” that Acosta negotiated with Epstein in 2007. It explains how Trump’s future labor secretary helped Epstein avoid major repercussions, even though a federal investigation had identified 36 underage victims.
July 6, 2019
Epstein is arrested and charged by the Southern District of New York with one count of sex trafficking of minors and one count of conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors. He is denied bail on July 18. FBI officials searching his New York mansion recover thousands of nude and seminude photographs of young women, including at least one minor, and binders of CDs containing the photos.
July 12, 2019
Amid a public furor over the 2007 plea deal with Epstein, Acosta resigns from his post as Trump’s labor secretary.
July 23, 2019
Epstein is found unconscious on the floor of his cell at a federal jail in Manhattan. The incident is described by authorities as a suicide attempt.
August 9, 2019
Hundreds of pages of court documents are unsealed from a civil lawsuit filed by Giuffre in New York federal court that allege new details of sexual abuse claims against Epstein and several associates.
August 10, 2019
Epstein is found alone and unresponsive in his prison cell, with a noose around his neck. He is later pronounced dead of an apparent suicide, the Bureau of Prisons says. A review from the Justice Department’s inspector general’s office in 2023 found no evidence that Epstein kept a so-called “client list” and found that Epstein died by suicide.
July 2, 2020
Maxwell is charged in New York with conspiracy to traffic minors, among other charges. When Trump is later asked about Maxwell’s arrest, he says, “I just wish her well, frankly.”
November-December 2021
A trial begins in federal court in New York with testimony from women who say Maxwell recruited and groomed them and was complicit in their sexual abuse by Epstein. On December 29, Maxwell is found guilty of five federal charges: sex trafficking of a minor, transporting a minor with the intent to engage in criminal sexual activity and three related counts of conspiracy. She has since appealed the conviction.
June 28, 2022
Maxwell is sentenced to 20 years in federal prison
January 5, 2024
A trove of documents from a 2015 civil suit against Epstein are unsealed by a court. They include detailed allegations by women who say they were abused by Epstein, and names of many prominent Epstein friends and connections – including a 2009 deposition in which an Epstein employee recounts having dinner with Trump in the kitchen of Epstein’s Palm Beach home.
June 3, 2024
In an interview with Fox News, Trump pledges to release more information from the Epstein files if reelected. But he added he is concerned with the possibility that there might be “phony stuff” in the government’s investigative files.
November 5, 2024
Donald Trump is elected the 47th president of the United States.
February 2025
Attorney General Pam Bondi authorizes the release of declassified files on Epstein, and the White House distributes binders of the files to right-wing influencers, who note that most of the information released is largely already in the public domain.
May 2025
The Wall Street Journal reports that sometime in May, Bondi told Trump at a briefing that his name appears multiple times in the Epstein files, including in potential instances of unverified hearsay about Trump.
July 2025
The Justice Department releases a memo that says its review revealed "no incriminating client list" and that Epstein committed suicide while in federal custody. The agency declines to release more records, causing public outcry.
July 16, 2025
In a post on Truth Social, Trump called the Epstein controversy a "Hoax" and "bullsh*t," denouncing "weaklings" in the GOP. He wrote that while he supports the release of “credible” information and “pertinent” grand jury testimony, he accused the media of focusing on old news.
July 24 & 25, 2025
Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche, formerly Trump’s personal attorney, interviews Maxwell over a two-day period at the US attorney’s office in Tallahassee, Florida. Six days after the interviews, the Bureau of Prisons transfers Maxwell without explanation to a low-security federal prison in Texas, nicknamed a “country club” prison. Trump says he was unaware that Maxwell was being transferred.
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