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emulatorloo

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Sat Jul 26, 2025, 08:49 PM Jul 26

Trump held a "Calendar Girl" competition Party at Mar-A-Lago. The only guest besides the "girls" was Epstein [View all]

Archival link to 2019 NYT article:

https://archive.is/mR8iZ

By Annie Karni and Maggie Haberman
July 9, 2019

WASHINGTON — It was supposed to be an exclusive party at Mar-a-Lago, Donald J. Trump’s members-only club in Palm Beach, Fla. But other than the two dozen or so women flown in to provide the entertainment, the only guests were Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein.

The year was 1992 and the event was a “calendar girl” competition, something that George Houraney, a Florida-based businessman who ran American Dream Enterprise, had organized at Mr. Trump’s request.

“I arranged to have some contestants fly in,” Mr. Houraney recalled in an interview on Monday. “At the very first party, I said, ‘Who’s coming tonight? I have 28 girls coming.’ It was him and Epstein.”

Mr. Houraney, who had just partnered with Mr. Trump to host events at his casinos, said he was surprised. “I said, ‘Donald, this is supposed to be a party with V.I.P.s. You’re telling me it’s you and Epstein?’”


More at link.

This story was referenced in a recent Guardian article:

https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-epstein-party-women-b2792328.html

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