A one-time friend of Jeffrey Epstein has laid bare the extraordinary way he tried to impress Donald Trump.

Cleo Glyde, a model who knew Epstein in the ‘80s and ‘90s, before his horrific crimes came to light, spoke exclusively to The Daily Beast Podcast about how Epstein used her and a close friend as “trophies on display” during a bizarre encounter with Trump.

Glyde told podcast host Joanna Coles how she met Epstein through a mutual friend when she was 22 years old. At that time, she said, the financier’s reputation was “way more James Bond than Darth Vader.”

“He was a high society A-lister—a sort of an enigmatic Great Gatsby figure,” Glyde said.

The two struck up a friendship, spending time together at his office on Madison Avenue and his now-infamous Upper East Side mansion.

Glyde,

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