US President Donald Trump has said that he ended his relationship with disgraced financier and convicted sex abuser Jeffrey Epstein because he "stole" young female workers from Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort, Al Jazeera reported.

Speaking to reporters on his way home from a trip to Scotland on Tuesday (local time), Trump alleged that one such worker was the late Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein's highest-profile accusers.

"People were taken out of the [Mar-a-Lago] spa, hired by him. In other words, gone," Trump said. "When I heard about it, I told him, I said, 'Listen, we don't want you taking our people.' And then, not too long after that, he did it again. And I said, 'Out of here,'" Al Jazeera quoted.