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Trump biographer claims president’s ‘betrayal’ is real reason for falling out with Epstein

by Howard Koplowitz
AL.com, July 31, 2025

It was stealing involving real estate, not workers, that led to the falling out between Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, according to the president’s biographer.

In an interview with MeidasTouch, journalist and Trump biographer Michael Wolff recounted how Epstein believed Trump betrayed him.

In 2004, according to Wolff, Epstein believed he was the high bidder on a Palm Beach, Florida, house Epstein offered to buy for $36 million.

Epstein, who died by suicide in 2019 in a federal prison in New York after being indicted on federal sex trafficking charges, took Trump around to see the home to help him about moving the house’s swimming pool.

“Trump, thereupon, went around Epstein’s back and bid $40 million for the house, and got the property” Wolff claimed.

Epstein, who was “deeply involved with Trump’s scattered finances” knew Trump did not have that kind of money to make the purchase, Wolff alleged.

Epstein believed the $40 million actually came from Dmitry Rybolovlev, a Russian oligarch.

“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 said.

“This is all a red flag for money laundering,” the biographer said.

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