President Donald Trump says his friendship with Jeffrey Epstein ended after Epstein hired people who had worked for Trump. The Republican president said Monday that he had warned Epstein about hiring Trump staff and that when Epstein did it again, “I threw him out of the place.” The place Trump refers to is his Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida. Authorities say the disgraced financier killed himself in a New York jail cell in 2019 as he awaited trial on sex trafficking charges. The case has dogged Trump after he and his top allies stoked conspiracy theories about Epstein's death.

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People line up to bid farewell to Roman Starovoit, the former transport minister who died in apparent suicide after his dismissal, at the morgue of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 10, 2025. (AP Photo)

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A man carries a portrait of Roman Starovoit, the former transport minister who died in an apparent suicide after his dismissal while people line up to his bid farewell, at the morgue of the Central Clinical Hospital in Moscow, Russia, Thursday, July 10, 2025. (AP Photo)

The apparent suicide of Russia’s transportation minister brought expressions of shock and sorrow from the Kremlin but no new clues as to why Roman Starovoit might have taken his own life amid media speculation he potentially was facing corruption charges. Starovoit was found dead from a gunshot wound -- news that broke hours after a decree Monday from President Vladimir Putin that dismissed the 53-year-old Cabinet member. Investigators say his body was found in a Moscow suburb that is home to many members of Russia’s elite. A criminal probe was launched into his death. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov refused to comment on the case except to say it was “tragic and sad.”