Former President Donald Trump and the late disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein once made a bet over who could seduce the late Princess Diana first, author and journalist Michael Wolff has said on a podcast. Wolff, the veteran reporter best known recently for his trilogy of books on the Trump White House— Fire and Fury , Siege: Trump under Fire and Landslide —said that he had a "secret source" when writing the first book and it was "Trump's old friend Jeffrey Epstein." His latest explosive claims, which Newsweek has not independently verified, were made in episode 22 of his podcast Fire and Fury released on Thursday, five days before the culmination of a closely contested election between Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris .
Newsweek reached out to Trump's office for comment on Friday outside business hours. This article will be updated if a response is received. In the podcast, hosted by Wolff and former Condé Nast editor James Truman, Wolff details what he says was a close relationship between Trump and Epstein, the convicted sex offender who died in 2019 in jail while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges.
"I probably have one hundred hours of Epstein talking about the inner workings of the Trump White House and about his long-standing, deep relationship with Donald Trump," Wolff said on the podcast. He described Trump and Epstein as "two playboys very much styling themselves as playboys in that [Hugh]t Hefner sense who palled around for the better part of 15 .
