Comedian Rosie O’Donnell shared new details this week on President Donald Trump’s 1993 wedding to his second wife, including the president’s interactions with one Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump’s 1993 wedding to Marla Maples took place at the Plaza Hotel in New York City, New York and was attended by hundreds, including the late O.J. Simpson, Howard Stern, and the disgraced financier Epstein, who died in 2019 awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.
While Epstein’s attendance to Trump’s 1993 wedding was unearthed back in July, O’Donnell’s first-hand account of the event revealed that Epstein was more than a mere bystander to the ceremony.
“I went there and as [Trump] was walking down the aisle at Trump Plaza – and he had stood her up three times just so you know, this was the fourth wedding attempt,” O’Donnell said, appearing on an episode of an Australian talk show aired this week.
“As he was walking down the aisle, he shook hands with every famous person that he saw – not me because I didn't know the guy at all – but he shook hands with everyone who was there, including Jeffrey Epstein. They're buddies!”
Trump’s past ties with Epstein have plagued his second term in the White House following the bombshell report from The Wall Street Journal in July that revealed new details about the relationship, and suggested it to have been more intimate than previously known. The Trump administration has also faced scrutiny for its handling of its supposed investigation into Epstein and his potential co-conspirators, scrutiny that has sparked fury from many MAGA faithful.
O’Donnell said she had attended the wedding as a “plus one” to her friend who was directly invited by Trump, and noted that it was long before “we had our little feud,” which kicked off in 2006 after O’Donnell criticized Trump on “The View.” Trump has gone on to attack O’Donnell frequently over the subsequent 19 years.
When asked if she got Trump a gift for his wedding, O’Donnell said that she hadn’t, and joked that her favorite thing about the event was the food.
“We only stayed for the hors d'oeuvres, we thought it was funny and then we left,” O’Donnell said. “And then, when he was going off on me in 2007 saying 'she's ugly, she's gay, she's fat, she's disgusting,' I just put a little tweet: 'I was at your wedding!'”
