A former model who knew Jeffrey Epstein has revealed that the disgraced financier had her dress like a nurse when he took her to meet Donald Trump for the first time.
Cleo Glyde, who ran in the same circles as Epstein throughout the 1980s and 90s, told The Daily Beast Podcast that Epstein showed off her and a close female friend of hers to Trump as if they were ‘trophies on display’.
‘I had this white wrapover dress and [Epstein] said “you look just like a nurse in that…why don’t we both go over to Donald’s and you’ll both look like nurses”‘ Glyde recalled Epstein saying.
At that time, Glyde thought it sounded like ‘a bit of fun’, though she looks back on it now as a ‘mortifying’ experience.
So, the trio left Epstein’s apartment on East 71st Street and made their way over to Trump Tower a little over 20 blocks down in Midtown.
When they arrived, she said Trump ‘smiled and laughed’, but not in a way that made her feel uncomfortable. He also recalled him being ‘gracious’ and offering her a drink.
‘There wasn’t anything seedy or sexual or weird apart from the aspect of us being trophies on display,’ she said.
She described Trump as a ‘Macy’s Day Parade float of a man’ and a larger-than-life figure in New York City at the time. Yet, she said he felt a strong need to brag about high-ticket purchases he had made.
Cleo Glyde told The Daily Beast Podcast that Jeffrey Epstein introduced her and her friend to Donald Trump while they were dressed like nurses (Pictured: Glyde walks the runway at a March 1989 fashion show in Paris, France)
Glyde knew Epstein throughout the 1980s and 90s, and she said he was ‘boasty’ about knowing Trump because he was a New York celebrity at the time (Pictured: Trump and Epstein together at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, in 1997)
‘He was really invested in us knowing about, “I bought this, I got that, I paid the most at the auction.” You know, he was really really invested in making a good impression, which I found startling,’ Glyde said.
‘I just could not believe that chasm of need in him. It really blew my mind,’ she added.
Epstein, meanwhile, could not contain his pride over introducing the two women to one of his A-list friends, she said.
‘Jeffrey was kind of a bit boasty about knowing Donald. Donald was much more famous than him at that time, and so I think he loved accentuating that connection,’ she said. ‘He was probably showing off Donald to us and us to Donald.’
She also remembered Trump and Epstein having a ‘warm and friendly’ relationship with one another.
When contacted by Daily Mail, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said Glyde’s story was ‘fake news’.
‘The Fake News continues playing into the hands of the Democrat Hoax trying to link President Trump and Epstein. It’s not news that Epstein knew Donald Trump, because Donald Trump kicked Epstein out of his club for being a creep,’ Jackson said.
‘Democrats and the media knew about Epstein and his victims for years and did nothing to help them while President Trump was calling for transparency, and is now delivering on it with thousands of pages of documents,’ she continued.
Glyde claimed she met the future president at Trump Tower in midtown Manhattan
Glyde counts herself as one of Epstein’s victims, claiming he groped her on his private jet
Trump’s MAGA base has been furious with the Department of Justice because even though it has released tens of thousands of pages of documents related to the investigation into Epstein’s child sex trafficking conspiracy, much of it was redacted or information that was already publicly known.
On top of that, the DOJ insisted that there was no client list and no evidence that Epstein blackmailed powerful people, while also reaffirming that he killed himself in jail awaiting trial.
Glyde counts herself as one of Epstein’s over 1,000 victims, a figure cited in a DOJ disclosure.
She told The Daily Beast Podcast that he groped her on his private plane.
‘He was able to put his hand between my legs at the knee and then started to kind of get rough,’ she said. ‘And [he] put his hand on my breast and put his hand on my leg and, like, creeping up to my underwear.’
‘I kind of teared up and I was like, “Jeffrey, why are you doing this? I thought we were friends…” And he kind of stopped and then he dropped it, like, completely.’
Glyde fell out of contact with Epstein not long after this, and she is one of many who believe that he could have been murdered in jail.
‘There is no way on God’s green Earth, obviously, that we’ve gotten to the bottom of all the players that were involved,’ she said.
