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Just before famed Miami rapper and record executive Uncle Luke announced his bid for Congress over the weekend, a 2016 SiriusXM interview resurfaced where he recalled a ’90s Mar-a-Lago party during which he saw what he described as naked underage girls.
The video apparently first resurfaced on progressive media outlet MeidasTouch in a Threads post, where podcaster Ben Meiselas replays the interview in which Uncle Luke describes the party to Sirius radio host Mark Thompson. Uncle Luke, real name Luther Campbell, addressed the controversy in a Facebook post on February 14, where he admits to discussing the issue with multiple outlets about a decade ago.
“Let me get into this Luke going to Trump party controversy that all of a sudden hit the wire today,” Uncle Luke says. “This Uncle Luke going to Donald Trump and seeing drugs and seeing people underage and all that and everything. This conversation that happened in 2016 or 2017. For it to be brought up right now to make it as if I just had a current conversation with XM radio today or yesterday, and all of a sudden they’ve got some smoking gun, let me just say this first of all,” he says in the video.
“I’ve had a conversation about this on numerous occasions. I went on Joy Reid’s show, and she asked me about the party at Donald Trump’s. I went to CNN when Miss Baldwin was on there, and they had the Republican National Convention in Coral Gables, where the University of Miami is, and they asked me about the party I went to. I had these conversations on numerous occasions.
“So for these people to bring this up right now as if I had a brand new conversation with XM radio, fuck no. I ain’t just had no goddamn conversation with no XM radio.”
Uncle Luke had not returned New Times‘ requests for comment, including a phone call and multiple emails, by the time of this reporting.
In the recent MediasTouch video, Meiselas says, “He talks about going to a Mar-a-Lago party. He left right away. He thought he was going to get extorted because the girls all looked underage, or a lot of them looked so young that he had to get the hell out of there.”
Uncle Luke was a guest on the Make It Plain show with Rev. Mark Thompson in 2016, where he told the host about Trump inviting him to a party in the ’90s and showing him around his Palm Beach estate.
“He said, ‘Look, I got all these women. I got these women from the pageant, they’re going to be there,” Uncle Luke says in the video.
“They sent some cars to pick us up, we get in the car, and we drive up there. Me, Mike, and Eddie Murphy are all in individual cars. The car service took us up there. We got there, and he showed us around the house, told us about the mansion and the history behind it.”
Uncle Luke describes a party with no music, young-looking women in various rooms at the estate, and sexual acts taking place before the host asks, “So women just naked in rooms with no music?”
“Hey, people walked around,” Uncle Luke responds. Later saying, “I was happy to be at the party, but at the end of the day, when I started looking at some of these girls’ faces, I was like, ‘Man, these girls don’t look like they’re old enough.’ It was like, ‘OK, I can’t be up in here.'”
In the initial interview with Thompson, Uncle Luke says he never asked anyone’s age and immediately left the party out of fear that he might be extorted for being there.
