Forbes Has A Timeline

“I knew him like everybody in Palm Beach knew him,” Trump told reporters from the Oval Office in 2019 when Epstein was arrested. “I was not a fan of his, that I can tell you.”

Sure, buddy. Sure.

1980s
Trump and Epstein met around the time Trump bought Mar-a-Lago in 1985, when Epstein was also living in Palm Beach, according to Trump, who told New York magazine in 2002 he had known Epstein for “15 years,” calling him a “terrific guy,” and adding “it is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

1992
Trump and Epstein were spotted laughing together at a party Trump threw at Mar-a-Lago, according to NBC footage of the event unearthed in 2019.

1992
At a “calendar girl” party at Mar-a-Lago where Trump invited just two other guests, Florida businessman George Houraney and Epstein, Houraney’s girlfriend at the time, Jill Harth, said Trump forcibly kissed and fondled her, restrained her from leaving a bedroom and alleged Trump crawled into bed with another 22-year-old woman at the party in a 1997 lawsuit Trump settled the lawsuit with Harth (he has denied her allegations), The New York Times reported.

1993
Trump flew on Epstein’s private jets four times in 1993, according to flight logs made public during Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, The New York Times reported.

1993
Photos released by CNN showed Epstein attended Trump’s 1993 wedding to Marla Maples—his second wife—at the Plaza Hotel in New York. A few months before the wedding, another photo published by CNN showed Epstein and Trump together at the opening of the Harley Davidson Cafe in New York.

1993
Trump groped model Stacey Williams when Epstein brought her to Trump Tower, she alleged in an October interview with The New York Times (Trump’s campaign denied the allegations as “unequivocally false” and politically motivated).

1994
Trump flew on one of Epstein’s private jets, according to the flight logs.

1995
Epstein reportedly called Maria Farmer—who has accused Epstein and Maxwell of sexual assault—to his New York office late at night, where Trump then arrived and “started to hover over” Farmer, who was in her mid-20s at the time, and “stared at her bare legs” before Epstein said, “No, no. She’s not here for you,” Farmer reportedly told the FBI, according to The New York Times.

1995
Trump took another flight on an Epstein jet, the flight logs say.

1997
Trump signed a note to Epstein in his book, “Trump: The Art of the Comeback,” that said “To Jeff—You are the greatest!” according to The New York Times.

1997
Trump took a seventh flight on one of Epstein’s jets.

1997
Trump and Epstein were photographed standing near each other at a Victoria’s Secret “Angels” party, according to a Getty image of Trump posing with model Ingrid Seynhaeve that shows Epstein in the background.

1999
A video released by CNN showed Trump and Epstein laughing and chatting with each other at another Victoria’s Secret event.

2000
Epstein victim Virginia Giuffre was working at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort when she was recruited by Maxwell to work as Epstein’s personal masseuse and was groomed by the two to provide sexual services for Epstein and his wealthy circle, according to a deposition Giuffre gave that was made public in 2019.

2003
Trump allegedly gave Epstein the birthday card that said “may every day be another wonderful secret,” according to the Wall Street Journal report, which the president denies and has sued the paper over; The New York Times later reported Trump was on a list of contributors for the book of birthday cards to Epstein Trump’s letter allegedly appeared in.

2004
Trump and Epstein had a falling out when Trump outbid him for a Palm Beach mansion, according to a Washington Post report.

Pre-2006
Trump and Epstein appeared in a photo with singer James Brown, The Times reported (the photo is undated, but Brown died in 2006).

2010
Resurfaced video, posted to social media by the progressive outlet MeidasTouch, showed Epstein confirming he socialized with Trump and declining to answer when asked if he has ever socialized with Trump “in the presence of females under the age of 18.”

2015
Trump’s name appeared circled in Epstein’s “little black book” of 1,571 personal contacts, which spanned 97 pages of names, numbers and addresses of Epstein’s associates, including high-powered figures such as Prince Andrew and Ehud Barak, whose names were among about 38 also circled, according to a copy of the document published by Gawker in 2015.