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omen, but Nadia is tall. She’s
ith glowing skin, a wide smile,

ss for a Bond girl—a woman
. intrigue. But of course, that’s

s and the women in Epstein’s
profile of him, New York maga-
(“He is amazing”), Princeton
), MIT professors (“If I had acted
as given me over the years, I’d
am right now”), and other lumi-
Clinton.
n years,” says Donald Trump.
be with.”
eday Trump would run for presi-
: Hillary Clinton for Bill Clinton’s
n.) But Trump’s already ahead of
severing his ties to Epstein well
et wind of Epstein’s penchant for

ds out that in their endless hunt
urers have been prowling around

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CHAPTER 33

Virginia Roberts: 1999

Trump’s estate, Mar-a-Lago, had once belonged to the fabulously wealthy heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. It sits on twenty perfectly manicured acres less than two miles away from Jeffrey Epstein’s home on El Brillo Way. It’s home to the exclusive Mar-a-Lago Club, which has a spa, tennis courts, and a very posh restaurant.

Donald Trump had fought the town council for decades as they blocked all his efforts to turn the place into a private resort. Other clubs on the island—those with a history of excluding blacks and Jews—had never faced such restrictions, Trump had argued. At one point he sent copies of two movies to every member of the town council: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, in which Sidney Poitier confronts his girlfriend’s racist parents, and Gentleman’s Agreement, in which a journalist confronts anti-Semitism in Connecticut and New York City.

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