A former fashion model and one-time friend of late disgraced financer Jeffrey Epstein has come forward with disturbing and surreal fresh details about how the convicted sex offender once tried to impress Donald Trump. Laying bare the extraordinary way he tried to impress Donald Trump, Cleo Glyde spilled beans that Jeffrey Epstein paraded her and another woman into Trump Tower dressed like nurses, reports The Daily Beast.

Glyde, a model who knew Epstein in the 1980s and 1990s, before his crimes came out in the open, told the media outlet about how Epstein used her and a close friend as “trophies on display” during a bizarre encounter with Trump.

Epstein made me dress like nurse: Model

Glyde told podcast host Joanna Coles that she met the late financier when she was 22 years old. At that time, she said, the financier’s reputation was “way more James Bond than Darth Vader.” She formed a friendship with Epstein in the ‘80s and ‘90s, before his crimes involving underage girls came to light.

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“He was a high society A-lister—a sort of an enigmatic Great Gatsby figure,” Glyde said. After she became friends with Jeffrey Epstein, the two spent time together at his office on Madison Avenue and his now-infamous Upper East Side mansion. Cleo Glyde described how the billionaire once hatched an idea to show her and her friend off to the future president. She also revealed that Jeffrey would often boast about his friendship with Donald Trump.

Epstein suggested that she and her friend, who introduced them, both wear white dresses and come with him to Trump Tower. When the trio arrived at Trump Tower, Glyde remembers feeling like Epstein clearly wanted to impress his real estate mogul pal.

“He probably was showing off Donald to us and us to Donald,” she said.

Glyde said that Trump “smiled and laughed” when they came in. “Obviously, Jeffrey’s thinking, ‘I’m literally walking down Fifth Avenue with two nurses… [Trump] laughed, but not in a way that made me uncomfortable at the time.”

“He probably was showing off Donald to us, and us to Donald,” Glyde said of the encounter. But the friendship between Epstein and Glyde took an ugly turn he floated the idea of visiting Trump at Trump Tower—with a dress code. “I had this white wraparound dress and he said, ‘Oh my God, you look just like a nurse,’” she recalled.

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Epstein persuaded Glyde and her friend—both dressed in white—to join him on a trip to Trump Tower, describing it as a humorous stunt. Upon entering, Glyde recalled Trump smiling and laughing at the sight, clearly entertained by Epstein’s theatrical arrival.

“Obviously, Jeffrey’s thinking, ‘I’m literally walking down Fifth Avenue with two nurses.’” Glyde described the experience as odd but not threatening at the time—though the encounter now seems far more calculated.

“I had this white wraparound dress and [Epstein] said, ‘Oh my God, you look just like a nurse,’” Glyde recounted. “Why don’t we both go over to Donald’s and you both look like nurses, and I’ll just knock on the door and we’ll go to Trump Tower and it’ll be hilarious,” she recalled him saying.

Responding to the claims, the White House called Glyde’s testimony a “hoax,” a description Trump has increasingly used to fight off the Epstein scandal. “This is just more stupid, fake news playing into the hands of the Democrat Hoax trying to link President Trump and Epstein,” a White House spokesperson wrote in part in a statement to the Daily Beast. “Democrats and the media knew about Epstein and his victims for years and did nothing to help them while President Trump was calling for transparency, and is now delivering on it with thousands of pages of documents.”

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Trump and Epstein connection

Glyde isn’t the first woman to speak about having an awkward experience when Epstein and Trump got together. Stacey Williams, a former model and one-time girlfriend of Epstein, told The Daily Beast Podcast last month that Trump groped her in his Trump Tower office, right in front of Epstein.

“[Trump’s] just moving his hands sort of up and down my body and like smiling at him and Jeffrey smiling back,” she said. Glyde told The Daily Beast Podcast that her friendship with Epstein began to unravel when he groped her on his private jet.

“He was able to put his hand between my legs at the knee and then started to kind of get rough,” she said. “And [he] put his hand on my breast and put his hand on my leg and, like, creeping up to my underwear.”

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“I kind of teared up and I was like, ‘Jeffrey, why are you doing this? I thought we were friends… I really don’t want to do the whole Jeffrey Epstein roadkill thing.’ And he kind of stopped and then he dropped it, like, completely.”

Trump and Epstein’s long-standing friendship is well-documented. In a 2002 New York Magazine profile, Trump said: “I’ve known Jeff for 15 years. Terrific guy. He’s a lot of fun to be with. It is even said that he likes beautiful women as much as I do, and many of them are on the younger side.”

The two were often photographed together, including at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club, alongside Melania Trump and Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate who is now serving a 20-year prison sentence for child sex trafficking.

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House Democrats on Monday released an image of a sexually suggestive letter and drawing that appears to bear the signature of Donald Trump, the very same note the president had denied writing after reports of its existence were published earlier this year in the Wall Street Journal. The image showed a letter that in effect comported with a description in the Journal’s report from July. Inside the sketch of a woman’s torso, the note depicts an imagined conversation between Trump and Epstein, with what appeared to be Trump’s signature below.

The White House denied the alleged letter from Trump, which featured a drawing of a woman's body, was authentic and said the president "did not draw this picture, and he did not sign it". The release comes as the president faces growing pressure, including from his own supporters and within his own Republican Party, for more transparency on what investigations into Epstein uncovered.