Trump's Troubling History with Young Girls

The Epstein connection is just the tip of the iceberg

Hey, MAGA friends! Feeling a bit… suspicious about why Pam Bondi won’t release the Epstein client list, which she promised you months ago was on her desk? Well, pull up a chair, because Jeffrey Epstein is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to Donald Trump’s troubling history with underage girls.

Right around the time that Trump was hanging out with Epstein in Palm Beach, he was also making the rounds in New York with another pedophile named John Casablancas. In the 1980s and 1990s, Casablancas ran Elite Model Management, the world’s preeminent modeling agency, which hosted Elite’s Look of the Year competition. The contest helped launch the careers of Cindy Crawford, Helena Christensen and Stephanie Seymour, whom Casablancas met when she was fourteen and a high school freshman. By the time Seymour was sixteen and Casablancas was in his forties, they were living together in New York.

In 1988, Casablancas described Seymour to New York Magazine:

“She is a girl of extremes. And the way she developed — there’s a quality that developed about her that is this incredible sensuality that a woman-child has, a true woman-child … her voice is a child’s, her attitudes, the way she holds her feet and her hands are those of a child, at the same time with an incredible sensuality to it. And that mixture was and is so explosive … This was something like a forbidden fruit for both of us.”

By 1993, Casablancas was married to wife number three — a 17-year-old he had met just a year earlier when she competed in the Elite Look of the Year competition. As People Magazine described in its write-up of the nuptials:

The marriage of John Casablancas, 50, owner of the Elite modeling agency (whose roster includes Cindy Crawford and Paulina Porizkova) was a media event start to finish. For Casablancas, a self-described playboy, the Feb. 26 ceremony was wedding No. 3. (He has a daughter, Cecile, 22, by first wife Marie Christine and a son, Julian, 14, by Jeanette Christjansen.) But for 17-year-old Aline Wermelinger, who tugged all evening at her often too revealing Thierry Mugler couture dress, it was practically her first date. “I never dreamed something like this would happen,” she says. “It happened so fast.”

The teenage Wermelinger described herself to People as “deeply religious and virginal.” Prior to meeting Casablancas at a beauty contest in Rio, she had lived her life in a small mountain town in Brazil. During the Look of the Year competition, she told the judges that the Bible was her favorite book.

Reflecting on his penchant for young girls several years later, Casablancas admitted, “many of us are fascinated by the idea of a woman-child, like Brooke Shields in the movie Pretty Baby.”

As all this was happening, Donald Trump was going through some serious financial and personal trouble. In 1988, he vastly overpaid to buy the historic Plaza Hotel, announcing that his then-wife Ivana would run it for “$1 a year plus all the dresses she can buy.”