Epstein Made Me Dress Like a Sexy Nurse for Trump: Model

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🗓️ 7 September 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Australian model Cleo Glyde sits down with the Beast's Joanna Coles to share her extraordinary, unsettling memories of New York in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At just 22, she was living the height of the fashion world, signed to Ford Models, immersed in the club scene, and swept into the orbit of Jeffrey Epstein. She recalls meeting him through a fellow model, their early friendship, his Great Gatsby–like allure, and how he used wealth and connections to project power. Cleo also opens up about her introduction to Donald Trump through Epstein, visiting Trump Tower, and witnessing the bizarre mix of glamor, neediness, and showmanship inside his gilded world. She reflects on the dangerous charm Epstein wielded, her shocking encounter with him on a private plane, and how hindsight reveals the darker truth behind the high-society facade. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:01.3	I felt like Jeffrey was sort of like the Empire State Building,
1:04.7	another interesting aspect of New York to come and visit.
1:07.4	Come and see this, come and eat that, come and meet Jeffrey Epstein.
1:10.5	It just felt like another creature in the New York jungle to meet.
1:17.5	And when we went to the house, that was then the time when I really started to just see
1:22.9	the kind of seediness.
1:25.7	So today, we're actually talking to someone who spent a lot of time with Jeffrey Epstein.
1:30.3	She was a friend of Jeffrey Epstein.
1:32.0	She actually went to Donald Trump's apartment with Jeffrey Epstein and has a fascinating
1:38.2	insight on what it was like living in that model culture in the late 80s and the early 90s when Donald Trump was a colossus on the New York landscape.
1:49.1	And Jeffrey Epstein was his friend, often offering to bail him out when he was dealing with his bankruptcies.
1:55.2	Cleo Glide was a model for Saint-Laurent when she was in her late teens.
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