A DOJ-released Epstein email suggests a 2012 Mar-a-Lago invitation, raising questions about Trump’s claim that he banned Epstein in the mid-2000s.
A newly released email from the Department of Justice’s Jeffrey Epstein files has reportedly sparked a row to contradict a claim that President Donald Trump has maintained about his connections to the disgraced late financier.
A photo of Trump and Epstein at a UK bus stop. (AP)Among the more than 3 million pages of documents released by the DOJ in the Epstein investigation, one email appears to show that Jeffrey Epstein was sent an invitation to visit Mar-a-Lago in 2012. This contradicts Trump’s claim that Jeffrey Epstein was banned from his Palm Beach, Florida, 2000-0000 Palm Beach. When the first federal investigation of Epstein began.
It is not clear who sent the email as the Department of Justice has blacked out the sender’s address. It’s unclear if the email was sent from Trump or if Epstein actually received it and went to Mar-a-Lago.
The email read: “What does Jay (Jeffrey Epstein) think about going to Mar-a-Lago after Christmas instead of his island?” Records show the email was sent on September 28, 2012
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Here is the email:
Trump maintains that Epstein never visited Mar-a-Lago after the ban in the mid-2000s. However, there are no official documents or memos from Mar-a-Lago confirming that Jeffrey Epstein was banned from the estate.
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Trump on Epstein’s ban from Mar-a-LagoTrump has repeatedly said he cut ties with Epstein and banned him from Mar-a-Lago because Epstein “stolen” employees. Epstein specifically targeted young women from the club’s spa and hired them for his own purposes, Trump said.
“He stole people who worked for me,” Trump said in July 2025. “I said, ‘Never do that again.’ He did it again, and I kicked him out, persona non grata.”
The Palm Beach Post reported that Trump and Epstein lost touch in 2004 after a dispute in which Trump outbid Epstein in a bankruptcy auction for a beachfront estate. Trump also said he “didn’t get a chance to go to Epstein’s Island.”
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