The Cruel Game: How Trump and Epstein Turned Women into Trophies
Witnesses reveal how the two men treated young women as prizes in a disturbing contest of power and desire.
Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein at a social gathering at Mar-a-Lago in 1992. The footage, originally recorded by NBC, was released publicly in 2019 by CNBC during renewed scrutiny of Epstein’s conduct and his association with Trump.
On July 19, 2025, harrowing details emerged about President Donald Trump’s years-long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein, as The New York Times reported how the two men bonded over a cruel game, competing for young women as if they were trophies.
For Nearly 15 Years, a Gilded Playground for Predation
From the early 1990s until their falling-out in 2004, Trump and Epstein moved between Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach and Epstein’s townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side like self-crowned kings holding court in a gilded playground. They orchestrated exclusive gatherings that concealed a darker, deliberate intent. These events were not merely social but strategic, intended to attract and isolate young women.
Their guests were overwhelmingly women — models, cheerleaders, and teenage spa attendants — often recruited through modeling agencies, spa jobs, or informal networks at clubs and events, under the guise of career advancement. Chosen for their youth, beauty, and perceived pliability, these women were positioned as adornments and rewards.
One evening in 1992 underscored the calculated nature of these encounters. George Houraney, a Florida promoter who organized a “calendar girl” competition at Mar-a-Lago, arrived expecting a room full of sponsors, dignitaries, and VIP guests. Instead, he found Epstein standing alone with Trump. “This is supposed to be a V.I.P. event,” he said in disbelief. “You’re telling me it’s just you and Epstein?”
To many observers, it became clear these soirées were staged less as celebrations and more as private arenas of rivalry — meticulously constructed displays of power where Trump and Epstein vied for the attention of women who were treated as spoils in their cruel game. For the women caught in their orbit, these evenings often felt less like parties and more like auctions, with appraising glances and whispers passed over them as though their worth could be bargained and won.
Women’s Bodies Became the Battlefield of Their Rivalry
At a 1992 Mar-a-Lago party attended by Buffalo Bills cheerleaders and young models, NBC cameras captured Trump and Epstein whispering and laughing as they pointed at women on the dance floor, as if surveying prizes under the bright lights.
The following year, Stacey Williams, a model who once dated Epstein, described how she was escorted by him to Trump Tower in 1993, only for Trump to grope her as though she were “a piece of meat delivered as part of some game,” leaving her wondering whether she had been offered up as part of a private wager between the two men.
In 1995, Maria Farmer, then a young art student working for Epstein, recalled Trump leering at her during a visit to Epstein’s office until Epstein intervened with a chilling aside: “She’s not for you,” as though she were an object to be allocated.
Virginia Giuffre, recruited at 17 while working as a spa attendant at Mar-a-Lago, later said she was “passed around like a platter of fruit” to Epstein’s powerful friends — a haunting metaphor that captured what many others felt in the orbit of the two men.
Each encounter revealed not just predation but also the perverse rivalry between Trump and Epstein, treating women not as people but as spoils in their private war for dominance and validation.
When the Predators Turned on Each Other
The friendship unraveled in 2004 amid a bitter real estate battle and allegations that Epstein had acted inappropriately toward the teenage daughter of a Mar-a-Lago member. The two men competed for the Maison de l’Amitié, then the most expensive residential property ever listed in the United States, their lawyers locked in a contest that was as extravagant as it was petty. Trump ultimately outmaneuvered Epstein to purchase the disputed mansion: a sprawling French Regency-style estate on the Palm Beach oceanfront.
According to Trump, he later claimed the final break came when Epstein allegedly made unwanted advances toward the club member’s daughter, prompting him to bar Epstein from Mar-a-Lago for being “a creep.”
By then, their shared history of whispered jokes, groping hands, and callous indifference to consent had already left behind a trail of wounded lives, unanswered questions, and victims still waiting for justice.
Victims Remember What Trump Wants Forgotten
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing and dismissed the accusations as politically motivated attacks. In 2002 he called Epstein “a terrific guy” who “likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.” When Epstein was arrested again in 2019 on federal sex trafficking charges and later died by suicide in a Manhattan jail, Trump dismissed it as old news and accused Democrats of pushing what he called a “hoax.”
Now, well into his second term, he continues to minimize the scandal, calling it “boring” and “made up,” even as newly unsealed grand jury records from the Justice Department detail more about Epstein’s network and the victims who stepped forward to testify. Yet the women whose accounts echo through courtrooms and newsrooms have not forgotten. They describe being treated as trophies, not people — pawns in a cruel contest of power that left lasting scars.
And Tom Barrack was there for 80s and 90s
Why am I beginning to think that Trump's "problem" with women is based on his own deep insecurities?
It seems pretty obvious that many of these young women are the very source of "They're let you do anything if you're famous..." line from the Access Hollywood tape. Is it perhaps Trump's deepest fear that no one would have any interest in, or desire for DJT if he didn't already have fame attached to his very name (and his name ONLY)? How can one not, when his image is clearly a greater draw than the reality. (Even so far as to hear his words and see his efforts intended to increase ONLY the TV side. Perhaps there isn't another...)
For someone so deeply insecure that he feels safest with (one presumes to Trump) "less discriminating", though fame-motivated young women. And being such a predator, it's also likely nice to be around "friends" in a matching mind-set. One imagines that to them, "scoring" among such a purposeful audience elicits something other than disgust, and would probably even treat such a "victor" as something other than the scum that Trump's insecurities perhaps cause him to question...even when including himself.