Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ............................................................................................................. 2
THE BACKDROP: SEXUAL EXPLOITATION IN THE GOTHAM CITY OF DONALD
TRUMP, JEFFREY EPSTEIN, AND PAOLO ZAMPOLLI .......................................................... 8
WITNESS ACCOUNTS: ELEVEN WOMEN WHO LINK DONALD TRUMP TO JEFFREY
EPSTEIN....................................................................................................................................... 16
THE COVER-UP: DONALD TRUMP’S MANY BRAZEN LIES ABOUT HIS
RELATIONSHIP TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND DOJ’S RELENTLESS COVER-UP FOR
TRUMP AND OTHER PROBABLE ACCOMPLICES AND CO-CONSPIRATORS ................ 36
THE BOTTOM LINE: THERE IS MORE THAN SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO LAUNCH A
CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION ................................................................................................... 51
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
A growing body of evidence demonstrates that Donald Trump was an active participant in
Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s. The Department of
Justice (DOJ) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) are doing everything they can to keep the
American people in the dark about it.
From the very first weeks of the Trump Administration, DOJ shut down ongoing criminal
investigations into Epstein’s enablers and co-conspirators, lied about clear evidence of crimes in
its possession, and sought to silence survivors. In July 2025, then-Deputy Attorney General Todd
Blanche and one of his senior deputies, Emil Bove—both former criminal defense lawyers for
Donald Trump—released a memorandum stating that DOJ and FBI had determined that “no further
disclosure” of the Epstein files would be “appropriate or warranted.”
Trump has claimed that the Epstein files “totally exonerate” him, but the evidence, as
detailed in this Staff Report, could not be less exonerating. The historical record shows that Trump
was a close friend and confidant of Epstein. Trump flew on his jet with Epstein’s victims and made
shared references to lusting after young women. The record shows that Epstein and Trump,
working with other predators like Paolo Zampolli and John Casablancas, exploited the thin veneer
of professionalism offered by the 1990s modeling industry to lure victims into their orbit. The
evidence, much of it still hiding behind redactions in DOJ vaults, shows that Trump lied about
kicking Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago club and strongly suggests that Epstein introduced Trump
to his wife Melania. The evidence demonstrates that Trump has lied about the nature and extent of
his relationship with Epstein dozens of times—incriminating behavior for someone who
supposedly has nothing to hide.
Above all, the actual evidence we have seen—as shared in the accounts and stories of 11
women, each described below—indicates that Trump abused, assaulted, and even raped numerous
women alongside, and in coordination with, the most infamous sex trafficker in history.
These stories are united by time, place, and the distinct factual similarities in how Trump
and Epstein pursued, manipulated, and abused these women. With one exception, these accounts
of sexual assault and conspiracy involve episodes that took place between 1992 and 1997 in New
York City and Palm Beach, at a time when Trump and Epstein were “close friends” and participated
in a shadowy subculture organized around young female modeling. Witnesses speak consistently
of modeling pageants and parties where young women and girls were forced into predatory
situations and routinely taken advantage of, abused, and raped. They give similar accounts of the
competitive and sinister relationship between Epstein and Trump and how it was channeled into
their shared pursuit of young women. Taken together, the evidence provided by the stories of these
11 women, and the documentary evidence that supports and corroborates their stories, indisputably
meets and surpasses FBI’s standard for opening a full investigation: that “activity constituting a
federal crime … may have occurred.”1
1 The Attorney General’s Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations, at 21-22, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE (2008),
https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/docs/guidelines.pdf.
2Of the 11 women who tie Donald Trump to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation, five of
them—Beatrice Keul, Stacey Williams, Jill Harth, Katie Johnson, and a Jane Doe—have
directly accused Trump of raping or sexually assaulting them in Epstein’s company or direct
physical presence:
• Beatrice Keul, whose account is comprehensively set forth for the first time in this
report, credibly alleges that Trump violently raped her at a November 1993 pageant
at the Plaza Hotel in New York City and that Epstein, Trump, and others used this
pageant as a “hunting ground” to prey on vulnerable young women and girls;
• Stacey Williams, who offered a detailed and corroborated account of Trump
sexually assaulting her in the early 1990s while she was alone with him and Epstein
in an office at Trump Tower;
• Jill Harth, who has also publicly detailed Trump aggressively pursuing and
violently sexually assaulting her and another woman in 1994 at a Mar-a-Lago party
where Epstein and Trump were the only men present;
• Katie Johnson, who gave FBI a detailed account of her repeated rape at the hands
of Trump and Epstein in 1994 in New York City when she was a minor; and
• A Jane Doe, who offered FBI a graphic account of Trump assaulting her when she
was a minor in the mid-1980s in New York by forcibly pushing her head down to
his exposed penis.
Beyond these direct allegations of physical assault, three survivors speak of
encounters with Trump whose circumstances indicate that he was a participant in Epstein’s
crimes, as shown by how Epstein and his accomplice, Ghislaine Maxwell, tried to make (or
made) these women available for sex.
• Two Epstein survivors—“Jane” and “Kate”—told FBI that either Epstein or
Maxwell seemingly offered them up to Trump for the purposes of sex or indicated
their availability. Jane and Kate were deemed so credible that federal prosecutors
called them to testify as government witnesses—subject to probing cross-
examination—against Ghislaine Maxwell at her criminal trial.
• Another survivor, Maria Farmer, described how Epstein had to actively prevent
Trump from preying on her late at night after Trump confused her with a teenage
girl potentially victimized by Epstein.
Kate’s story is particularly suggestive of Trump’s active involvement in Epstein’s sex
trafficking ring. Her FBI witness interview, released in the Epstein files, details how Ghislaine
Maxwell took her to a party in New York where Maxwell “presented” Kate to Trump.2 Kate, a
2 EFTA00158676.
3young model, remarked that this was the same way Maxwell “introduced [Kate] to Epstein.”3
Another document in the file confirms that Maxwell set Kate up on a date with Trump, and other
sources show Maxwell, Trump, and Kate then traveled together on Trump’s private jet to Florida.
Maxwell’s role of introducing young women to Trump was so well known that a tabloid covered
it in 1997, remarking how Trump was friends with “Robert Maxwell’s daughter Ghislaine, who
has introduced several of her attractive friends to the property developer.”4
Beyond direct victim accounts of rape and assault, three additional women appeared to
have shared a possibly sexual relationship with Epstein and Trump. In one case, Epstein joked
perversely that he sold “a fully depreciated woman” to Trump: the woman in question was a young,
foreign, recent college graduate who dated both men. Other accounts describe Trump’s assault of
a young model, Lauren Petrella, at a party where Epstein was present. And Trump paid for yet
another young model to live at one of his buildings in New York, around the time when she was
flying on Epstein’s jet with Maxwell and Prince Andrew.
These reports do not stand alone, and they are not aberrations. They are remarkably
consistent with the extensive public reports of Trump’s sexual misconduct at the time. Other
women have accused Trump of a range of sexual misconduct at similar modeling events and parties
in New York and Palm Beach—including Trump arranging for pageant contestants as young as 14
to dance for him and his frequent practice of walking into changing rooms while young girls were
in a state of undress. Indeed, Trump has acknowledged this lecherous behavior, boasting he could
“get away with it” because he owned the pageants in question. In 2005, in the now notorious Access
Hollywood recording, Trump bragged that “when you’re a star, [beautiful women] let you do it.
You can do anything. Grab ‘em by the pussy. You can do anything.”5 When asked about this video
in a civil deposition, Trump defended this statement, stating that he was one such “star.”6
In total, more than 25 different women—some connected to Epstein and many not—have
independently accused Donald Trump of rape, sexual assault, or other sexual misconduct.
7 His
ex-wife Ivana Trump stated in a sworn deposition during their divorce proceedings that Trump had
physically and sexually assaulted her in 1989, pulling out clumps of her hair and raping her after
an argument.8 As part of E. Jean Carroll’s civil cases against Trump, a federal jury unanimously
found that Trump forcibly penetrated Carroll after cornering her in a department store changing
room in 1996 in New York.9 The sheer number of these reports and these demonstrated crimes
3 Id.
4 How Suite! Trump’s Brit of All Right, SUNDAY MIRROR (Nov. 23, 1997),
https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-mirror/138828430/ (emphasis added).
5 NBC News, Donald Trump Makes Lewd Remarks About Women on Video, YOUTUBE (Oct. 7, 2016),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYqKx1GuZGg.
6 Olivia Rubin & Aaron Katersky, Trump, in Deposition, Doubles Down on ‘Access Hollywood’ Remarks About
Grabbing Women, ABC NEWS (May 5, 2023), https://abcnews.com/US/trump-deposition-doubles-access-
hollywood-remarks-grabbing-women/story?id=99107636.
7 Lisa Desjardins, All the Assault Allegations Against Donald Trump, Recapped, PBS NEWS (updated June 21, 2019),
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/assault-allegations-donald-trump-recapped.
8 Id.
9 Aaron Blake, Judge Clarifies: Yes, Trump Was Found to Have Raped E. Jean Carroll, WASH. POST (July 19, 2023),
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/19/trump-carroll-judge-rape/.
4suggest that most, if not all, of these dozens of women are telling the truth. Even Vice President
JD Vance repeatedly stated in 2016 that he believed Donald Trump had committed sexual assault
and that he credited the accounts of Trump’s accusers over Trump’s self-serving denials.10
In the face of this wave of evidence, the only recourse for the President has been to spread
lies and obfuscation. In July 2019, after Epstein was arrested on charges of conspiracy to traffic
minors, Donald Trump claimed that he knew Epstein “just like everybody in Palm Beach knew
him” and insisted that he “had no idea” about Epstein’s crimes.11
This evasion and this denial are contradicted by almost all of the available evidence,
including Trump and Epstein’s own words and the documents contained in the Epstein files.
Epstein bragged he was Trump’s “closest friend for 10 years.”12 In 2002, Trump said of Epstein:
“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.”13 Since these
statements, and the world’s discovery of Epstein’s crimes, Trump has unleashed a string of easily
refutable lies about their relationship. He has falsely claimed that he never rode on Epstein’s private
jet (he did, repeatedly), that he kicked Epstein out of his Mar-a-Lago Club (he did not), and that
he did not write Epstein a lewd birthday note (he most certainly did, as the whole world can see).
This Staff Report, relying on redacted passages in the Epstein files and new, never-before-released
whistleblower testimony, further reveals the full scope and brazenness of Trump’s lies.
Despite the specific and credible allegations made against Trump and a decades-long
pattern of predatory practices, DOJ keeps repeating the absurd claim it first advanced last summer:
that DOJ and FBI lack any evidence to investigate or prosecute any of Epstein’s enablers,
accomplices, or co-conspirators. While many individuals benefit from this continued cover-up and
refusal to undertake investigative activity, DOJ and FBI’s abject dereliction of duty appears aimed
at protecting one individual in particular: the Attorney General’s previous client and now direct
boss, President Donald Trump.
As revealed by this Staff Report, documents in the Epstein files show that then-Deputy
Attorney General Todd Blanche likely knew about certain survivors’ claims against the President
when he traveled to Tallahassee, Florida, to interview Epstein co-conspirator Maxwell in federal
prison. The transcript of that meeting shows that on at least three separate occasions, Blanche
directed Maxwell not to discuss one individual, Jane, whose report to FBI implicated Donald
Trump in Epstein’s sex trafficking ring, but whose claims were not yet known to the public. In
10 Em Steck & Andrew Kaczynski, JD Vance Repeatedly Indicated in 2016 that He Believed Donald Trump Had
Committed Sexual Assault, CNN (July 23, 2024), www.cnn.com/2024/07/23/politics/kfile-jd-vance-believed-donald-
trump-sexual-assault-allegations-2016.
11 Brooke Singman, Trump Says He Was ‘Not a Fan’ of Jeffrey Epstein, Despite Past Comments, FOX NEWS (July 9,
2019), https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-he-was-not-a-fan-of-jeffrey-epstein-despite-past-comments;
Rebecca Schneid, Trump Reportedly Told Police 20 Years Ago That ‘Everyone’ Knew About Epstein, Called
Maxwell ‘Evil’, TIME (Feb. 10, 2026), https://time.com/7377403/trump-epstein-maxwell-files/.
12 Nicholas Confessore & Julie Tate, ‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded over the Pursuit of
Women, N.Y. TIMES (Dec. 18, 2025), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html.
13 Landon Thomas Jr., Jeffrey Epstein: International Moneyman of Mystery, N.Y. MAGAZINE (Oct. 28, 2002),
https://nymag.com/nymetro/news/people/n_7912/#print.
5other words, Attorney General Blanche may have engaged in criminal obstruction of justice while
acting on a mission to protect Trump.14
This pattern of obstruction is, of course, not limited to the Maxwell interview and her
subsequent favorable treatment in a minimum-security camp. The public has rightfully questioned
why DOJ has engaged in such a puzzling mix of denials, dubious assertions, and secrecy with
respect to the Epstein files, particularly after so many Administration officials promised to release
the files during the campaign. The explosive Trump-Epstein connection helps provide an answer
to these perplexing questions:
• Why, after publicly and vehemently demanding for years release of the Epstein files
and then promising to release them, would Donald Trump and his handpicked
lawyers refuse to release them and actively work to thwart their disclosure?
• Why were senior prosecutors working on the Epstein case in the Southern District
of New York ordered to send their investigative files to DOJ headquarters in
Washington, D.C., in January 2025?
• Why did DOJ and FBI then abruptly close the case in July 2025 and declare, without
offering any explanation or supporting details, that DOJ and FBI “did not uncover
evidence that could predicate an investigation against uncharged third parties”
despite having the names of over 20 alleged co-conspirators from nearly 50
survivors?15
• If the investigation was closed, why did then-Deputy Attorney General (and former
Trump personal attorney) Blanche suddenly fly to Florida and interview Maxwell
in prison, immediately after she was called to testify before the House Committee
on Oversight and Government Reform? What information was he seeking to find—
or suppress—that would spur him to make such an abrupt, extraordinary, and
unprecedented trip?
• Why was Maxwell transferred to a minimum-security camp after the interview and
showered with deluxe treatment, all in apparent violation of the Bureau of Prisons’
policy preventing sex offenders from being sent to that institution?16
• Why did DOJ’s obstruction continue even after Congress passed the Epstein Files
Transparency Act (EFTA)? Why were Trump and his lawyers so determined to
14 18 U.S.C. § 1512 – Tampering With Victims, Witnesses, Or Informants; 18 U.S.C. 1505 – Obstruction Of Pending
Proceeding.
15 Letter from The Hon. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member, H. Comm. on the Judiciary, to The Hon. Pamela J. Bondi,
Attorney General, U.S. Dep’t of Justice (Nov. 3, 2025), https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-
subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-11-03-raskin-to-bondi-doj-re-epstein-
survivors-investigation_0.pdf.
16 Letter from The Hon. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member, H. Comm. on the Judiciary, to The Hon. Donald J. Trump,
President, The White House (Nov. 9, 2025), http://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-
judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-11-09-raskin-to-trump-wh-re-maxwell.pdf.
6cover up the contents in their possession that they refused to release a huge portion
of the documents and heavily redacted the ones that were released even after
Congress had passed EFTA?
• Why do journalists, survivors, and members of the public keep identifying
additional records that DOJ—under Attorney General Blanche’s direction—has
unlawfully redacted or withheld?
These questions have a straightforward answer: the Trump Administration took these
actions because Donald Trump is personally implicated in Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. And
these questions lead inescapably to this one: are Attorney General Blanche and DOJ deliberately
covering up further evidence that directly implicates Trump in Epstein’s crimes of sex trafficking
and abuse of female minors?
It appears that they are. Instead of pursuing justice for Epstein’s survivors, former Attorney
General Pam Bondi and Attorney General Blanche have been running DOJ like a private legal
defense firm for their former client. Determined to protect the President at any cost, DOJ itself
now leads the cover-up of Epstein’s sex trafficking operation. Todd Blanche has gone from being
Donald Trump’s personal attorney to his personal Attorney General.
A cover-up for one has now become a cover-up for all. By shutting down the Epstein
investigation and insisting there is no evidence to predicate any further investigation, DOJ has
given a pass to likely co-conspirators like Paolo Zampolli, Leon Black, Jes Staley, Les Wexner,
Leon Botstein, Lesley Groff, and Larry Visoki, among many others, because investigating these
men would be to acknowledge that other participants may still be at large and subject to arrest,
prosecution, and punishment for their crimes. DOJ will “support” the survivors only insofar as
they do not produce a single inconvenient truth about the men and women who actually abused
them. This refusal to investigate even the most damning facts in the Epstein files has been a critical
component of DOJ’s lawless mission to protect the President. In this case, the collateral damage is
catastrophic.
House Judiciary Committee Democrats stand on the side of the rule of law and for the
transparency necessary for criminal accountability to occur. The stakes of the Epstein-Maxwell
conspiracy are monumental. Human trafficking, child abuse, and rape are among the most serious
offenses that our law recognizes. Government complicity in a cover-up to protect traffickers and
rapists is criminal obstruction of justice and an intolerable offense against a free society. Moreover,
a President implicated in a sex trafficking operation is a President exposed, constantly vulnerable
to blackmail by foreign governments and domestic criminals. The full extent of the President of
the United States’ involvement with a criminal sex trafficking ring is, inescapably, of the utmost
concern to Congress and the American people.
7THE BACKDROP: SEXUAL EXPLOITATION IN THE GOTHAM CITY
OF DONALD TRUMP, JEFFREY EPSTEIN, AND PAOLO ZAMPOLLI
Before turning to the specific accounts of women and survivors linking Donald Trump and
Jeffrey Epstein, it is important to understand both men’s relationship with the New York of the
1990s, where powerful men—like Trump and Epstein—recruited, manipulated, and abused young
women in the fashion and modeling industries. By and large, the Epstein survivors’ accounts center
on the time period between 1992 and 1997 in New York City and, to a more limited extent, Palm
Beach. A close review of this time period also directly implicates other men in this sex trafficking
conspiracy, foremost among them Paolo Zampolli—until recently, a senior Trump Administration
official and diplomat.
It is well known today that Jeffrey Epstein used the fashion and modeling industries as a
pipeline to recruit, traffic and exploit young women and girls. One foreign model recruited by
Epstein from overseas told reporters: “He said he’d make my dream come true, but he turned it
into a f**king nightmare.”17 A series of interlocking relationships among prominent men who
owned modeling agencies, including Donald Trump, John Casablancas, Jean Luc-Brunel, and
Trump fixer Paolo Zampolli, bolstered and cemented Epstein’s sinister criminal design, becoming
a “f**king nightmare” for all the girls entrapped in it.
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, certain unregulated “talent agencies,” empowered by the
absence of any labor protections and driven by extreme power imbalances based on gender, wealth,
age, and class, turned the New York modeling industry into a system of organized sexual assault,
exploitation, and human trafficking. Hundreds or perhaps thousands of girls, some as young as 14,
were caught up in the tentacles of this criminal network. As Carrie Goldberg, a Brooklyn lawyer
who represents victims of child sex abuse, observed, the problem for young models during this
time was “they weren’t seen as children, but legally they are, and they were.”18 This predatory
culture—like other institutionalized systems of sexual assault in churches, schools, and
universities—depended on silence. As one former model stated, “there are repercussions for
speaking out. I look back at my career, and it’s so sad, but I was a child who said, ‘No, don’t rape
me anymore,’” and because of that “I didn’t work. I was taken out of the game.”19 Another model
who spoke out referenced the hopelessness of fighting back. “In reality, I had no chance against
these powerful men that were 20 years older than me, plotting against me.”20
Both of the models quoted above worked for Elite Model Management (“Elite”), a
company owned by John Casablancas, Jeffrey Epstein’s close associate and a longtime business
17 Curt Devine, et al.,
‘She’s a Gift’: How Epstein Exploited His Fashion World Connections to Reach Young Women,
CNN (June 13, 2026), www.cnn.com/2026/06/13/us/epstein-victims-model-scouts-fashion-invs-vis.
18 Ginia Bellafante, Why an Ex-Supermodel Who Says She Was Raped at 17 Is Suing Now, N.Y. TIMES (updated
Sept. 7, 2021), https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/13/nyregion/carre-otis-sutton-sexual-assault-lawsuit.html.
19 Diana Falzone, These Models Spoke out About Their Sexual Assaults and Say They Were Blacklisted, ROLLING
STONE (Apr. 1, 2023), https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/four-models-come-forward-sexual-
assaults-blacklisted-fashion-gerald-marie-paul-marciano-harvey-weinstein-1234705439/.
20 David Mercer, Models ‘Raped, Groomed and Sold by Agents’ in Fashion’
s
‘Darkest Secret’
, SKY NEWS (June 20,
2022), https://news.sky.com/story/ex-models-tell-of-alleged-rapes-and-sexual-abuse-by-master-manipulators-in-
fashion-industry-12622560?.
8partner and friend of Donald Trump. Tragically, their allegations were not isolated. Over a dozen
Elite models have accused Casablancas and his business partner, Elite President Gérald Marie, of
raping them, and the two men were known to compete over having sex with young models.
21
Casablancas also directly provided the models to Epstein. According to one lawsuit, in 1990,
Casablancas sent a teenage model for her first “casting call” at a residential address on New York’s
Upper East Side. The address was Epstein’s, and he sexually assaulted her.22
The next year, in 1991, real estate mogul and businessman Donald Trump began hosting
Elite’s “Look of the Year” competition for young models between the ages of 14 and 19.23 Trump’s
involvement in the “Look of the Year” pageant has long provoked skeptical questions. As The
Guardian put it, “Why would a man in his 40s, whose main business was real-estate development,
want to host a beauty contest for teenage girls?”24 Donald Trump’s business partner, John
Casablancas, who was in his 50s at the time, was quite open about his own reasons: he expressed
a “personal preference for girls of only just legal age—‘child women.’” Casablancas had a public
“affair” with a 15-year-old model in the 1980s and met his third wife, Brazilian model Aline
Wermelinger, at the 1992 “Look of the Year” contest hosted by Donald Trump, when Aline was
just 16.25
The “Look of the Year” pageants were plagued by accusations of sexual exploitation.
Contestants as young as 14 recalled being forced to dance for Trump, Casablancas, and other men
on a yacht. One model recalled that “Every time we changed, it was like Trump would find a reason
to come backstage.”26 Another model recalled Trump entering the dressing rooms: “He’d come by
and say, ‘Hey girls, are we ready?’”27 The “Look of the Year” contest led to multiple accusations
of sexual assault and rape against Casablancas and other pageant judges, including the magician
David Copperfield.
21 Antonio Planas & Diana Dasrath, Former Model Claims in Lawsuit She Was Raped as a Teenager by Agency
Executive, NBC NEWS (Aug. 13, 2021), www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/former-model-claims-lawsuit-she-was-
raped-teenager-agency-executive-n1276818.
22 Lucy Osborne, et al., Teen Models, Powerful Men and Private Dinners: When Trump Hosted Look of the Year,
THE GUARDIAN (Mar. 14, 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-
when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year.
23 Veronica Horwell, John Casablancas Obituary, THE GUARDIAN (July 24, 2013),
https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2013/jul/24/john-casablancas.
24 Lucy Osborne, et al., Teen Models, Powerful Men and Private Dinners: When Trump Hosted Look of the Year,
THE GUARDIAN (Mar. 14, 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-
when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year.
25 Id.; Eric Wilson, John Casablancas, Modeling Visionary, Dies at 70, N.Y. TIMES (July 20, 2013),
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/21/nyregion/john-casablancas-modeling-visionary-dies-at-70.html.
26 Lucy Osborne, et al., Teen Models, Powerful Men and Private Dinners: When Trump Hosted Look of the Year,
THE GUARDIAN (Mar. 14, 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-
when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year.
27 Id.
9Images: (Left) Trump with “Look of the Year” competition contestants in 1991. The winner of the
competition that year was 14 years old. (Right) Trump and John Casablancas at the “Look of the Year”
competition at the Plaza Hotel in 1991.
As documented by interviews conducted by the House Judiciary Committee, Epstein would
attend pageants, parties, and other events that Casablancas and Trump would host, including at
Mar-a-Lago, to prey on young women. Ron Rice, the founder of another beauty pageant, told
reporters that “he would send models and pageant contestants to Mar-a-Lago for parties at” the
request of both Trump and Casablancas. The first-hand accounts of these parties are chilling.
Former teen model Tina Davis said in an interview that in 1994, when she was 14 years old, her
booker instructed her to “dress sexy” and attend a Mar-a-Lago party, where young, underage girls
were plied with alcohol. At that party, Marla Maples, then married to Donald Trump, cornered
Davis’s mother and reportedly told her: “Whatever you do, do not let her around any of these men,
and especially my husband.”28
Other reports of young models around Trump and Casablancas justify Marla Maples’s
concerns. Several years after that incident, in 1996, a young woman named Lisa Boyne attended a
dinner with Trump, Casablancas, and six models on the Lower East Side. During the dinner, Boyne
alleges that Trump and Casablancas made the women dance on the table, peeked under their skirts,
and described their underwear. Boyne stated that both Trump and Casablancas refused to leave
their seats at the end of the table, meaning the women were forced to climb over them or the table,
in their skirts, to leave.29
28 Nicholas Confessore & Julie Tate, ‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded over the Pursuit of
Women, N.Y. TIMES (Dec. 18, 2025), www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html; Lucy
Osborne, et al., Teen Models, Powerful Men and Private Dinners: When Trump Hosted Look of the Year, THE
GUARDIAN (Mar. 14, 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-when-
donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year.
29 Amber Jamieson, et al., A Timeline of Donald Trump’ s Alleged Sexual Misconduct: Who, When and What, THE
GUARDIAN (Oct. 27, 2016), https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/oct/13/list-of-donald-trump-sexual-
misconduct-allegations.
10Donald Trump also pursued modeling ventures of his own. In 1993, he hosted the American
Dream Calendar Girls competition (also called the “Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant”)
at his casino in Atlantic City and his Plaza Hotel in New York. He later bought the Miss Universe
Pageant and then founded Trump Model Management (TMM), poaching numerous staff from
Casablancas’s agency. In some industry experts’ view, this represented an attempt to gain access
to a steady stream of women without the middlemen of model agents. One explained, “If you have
your own agency and you’re the owner, you can tell your bookers to make a party.”30 Three former
Trump models, all noncitizens of the U.S., told reporters in 2016 that TMM profited by using
foreign models who came to the country on tourist visas that did not allow them to work here.”31
Multiple models who worked for TMM described it as akin to “modern-day slavery.”32 Epstein
later told a journalist how Trump used to offer other men the opportunity to “have a great time”
with the models in his contests.33 Jeffrey Epstein evidently appreciated Donald Trump’s business
model. When, years later, Jeffrey Epstein helped finance and set up the modeling agency MC2
Model Management, he explicitly remarked that he wanted it run and organized just like Donald
Trump’s modeling agency.34
Another key player in this world with close ties to Trump, Casablancas, and Epstein was
Paolo Zampolli. An Italian-born modeling agent who until recently served as Trump’s Special
Envoy for Global Partnerships, Zampolli remains a close friend of the President and First Lady
Melania Trump. In the 1990s, Zampolli worked as a modeling talent scout and eventually founded
his own firm, ID Model Management. Zampolli has long claimed credit for hiring a young
Slovenian model named Melania Knauss and sponsoring her immigration to the United States,
arranging for her to receive an H-1B visa and setting her up in a New York apartment in 1996.
35
Both Trump and Knauss attended a party he hosted in 1998. This has become the basis for Zampolli
saying he introduced Donald and Melania Trump. In 2004, Zampolli and Epstein briefly became
business partners in a failed bid to buy the New York branch of Elite from Casablancas.
36 After
that failed bid, Zampolli moved into the real estate business and spent time working for The Trump
Organization.37
30 Lucy Osborne, et al., Teen Models, Powerful Men and Private Dinners: When Trump Hosted Look of the Year,
THE GUARDIAN (Mar. 14, 2020), https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/14/teen-models-powerful-men-
when-donald-trump-hosted-look-of-the-year.
31 Craig Unger, “He’s a Lot of Fun to Be with”: Inside Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s Epic Bromance, VANITY
FAIR (Jan. 21, 2021), https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/jeffrey-epstein-and-donald-trump-epic-bromance.
32 James West, Former Models for Donald Trump’s Agency Say They Violated Immigration Rules and Worked
Illegally, MOTHER JONES (Aug. 30, 2016), www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/08/donald-trump-model-
management-illegal-immigration/.
33 The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast), X (Nov. 2, 2024), https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/1852853415472226804.
34 Linda Robertson, et al., Did a Miami-Based Modeling Agency Fuel Jeffrey Epstein’s ‘Machine of Abuse’?, MIAMI
HERALD (Feb. 19, 2022), www.miamiherald.com/news/local/article238351108.html.
35 Jason Horowitz, When Donald Met Melania, Paolo Was There, N.Y. TIMES (Aug. 31, 2016),
https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/01/fashion/donald-trump-melania-modeling-agent-paolo-zampolli-daily-
mail.html.
36 Sarah Marks, Elite New York Branch Sold, THIS IS MONEY (Aug. 24, 2004),
https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-1507877/Elite-New-York-branch-sold.html.
37 PatrÃcia Campos Mello, Businessman Who Introduced Trump to Melania Wants to Bring Him Closer to Brazil,
FOLHA DE S. PAULO (Jan. 30, 2017), www1.folha.uol.com.br/internacional/en/world/2017/01/1854256-businessman-
who-introduced-trump-to-melania-wants-to-bring-him-closer-to-brazil.shtml.
11Summaries of witness interviews kept by FBI investigators, known as FD-302s, suggest
that Zampolli helped Epstein prey on models working for him—and likely preyed on those same
models himself. An FD-302 of an interview with Epstein’s former assistant (“Epstein Assistant 1”)
provides significant background on Zampolli’s relationship to this world and on Zampolli and
Epstein’s relationship to Donald Trump. Epstein Assistant 1 would have had access to significant
inside information about Epstein’s world: she was a young Polish model who served as Epstein’s
close associate for several years, recruited other women to give him nude massages, was reportedly
abused by him, visited him in prison over 50 times, and was named as an Epstein co-conspirator
in the 2007 indictment that was never filed.38
In her FD-302, Epstein Assistant 1 noted that when she first moved to the United States at
age 19, she was introduced to Zampolli, who became her agent. Zampolli arranged for Epstein
Assistant 1 to live at a model house on Varick Street in New York with 10 other women because
“she did not have the funds to pay for her own apartment.”39 It was during this time that Epstein
discovered her. Epstein visited Zampolli at his modeling agency “when there were casting
auditions for models” and Epstein would look “through portfolios and saw photograph of [girls]
wearing only swim bottom.” In a portion covered by redactions, she also states that she had an
affair with “the agent” who promoted her, meaning Zampolli.40
- put contact with an agent named PAOLO ZEMPOLI who wor~ed
to buy Elite Models
with EPSTEIN . EPSTEIN in~roduced MELANIA TRC:MP to
TRUMP .
EPSTEIN was visiting ZEMPOLI at the agency when there were casting
auditions for models . EPSTE!N was loo~ing through por~folios and saw
photograph of her wearing only sw~m bottoms .
Image: Redacted section of FBI-FD-302 from Jeffrey Epstein’s former assistant and victim explaining how
Epstein introduced Melania to Donald Trump.
It is unclear why DOJ would redact information indicating that Paolo Zampolli, then a
senior Trump official, preyed on a barely-of-age model before he trafficked her to Epstein. Notably,
Zampolli, when questioned about this connection and perhaps recognizing that any relationship
with an Epstein confidante would prove problematic, gave multiple contradictory answers in a
single breath about his association with Epstein Assistant 1, stating: “I remember that girl, I don’t
even remember. She was one of them. If you say so, you know, we have so many models. People
38 EFTA01703108.
39 EFTA00159321.
40 Id.
12ask me this name, sometimes models go with a different name. You know, an owner of an agency
does not need to know every single model of his agency.”41 Zampolli’s blustering statement of not
remembering, but also barely remembering, a young model he recruited, had an affair with, and
trafficked to Epstein is most revealing.
Epstein Assistant 1 also credibly contradicted Zampolli’s claim that he was responsible for
introducing Donald Trump to Melania. The FD-302 states unequivocally, “Epstein introduced
Melania Trump to Donald Trump.”42 Melania, of course, like Epstein Assistant 1, also lived in
a Zampolli-arranged house on Varick Street when she first came to the United States in the late
1990s. Zampolli’s former partner of 19 years, the Brazilian model Amanda Ungaro, likewise
challenged Zampolli’s account. Ungaro has asserted Zampolli was never “the one introducing [sic]
Melania to Trump. It was Jeffrey Epstein… . That’s how she met Donald Trump.”43 In other words,
two women who had a sexual relationship with Zampolli around the time of the introduction both
claim, definitively, that Epstein introduced Melania to Trump. Melania Trump has denied these
44
accounts.
Images: (Top Left) Donald and Melania Trump with
Paolo Zampolli and Amanda Ungaro at a New Year’s
Eve party at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. (Top Right)
Zampolli posing with Donald Trump’s jet around
2000. (Bottom) Zampolli and Vice President JD Vance
on an official visit to Hungary earlier this year.
41 Adam Robb, The Diplomat, the Fashion Channel, and Jeffrey Epstein, AMERICAN PROSPECT (Apr. 23, 2026),
https://prospect.org/2026/04/23/diplomat-fashion-channel-jeffrey-epstein-paolo-zampolli/.
42 EFTA00159321.
43 Farrah Tomazin, Melania Named in Bombshell New Epstein Claims, THE DAILY BEAST (June 1, 2026),
https://www.thedailybeast.com/melania-named-in-bombshell-new-epstein-claims/.
44 Bernd Debusmann Jr., Melania Trump Denies Ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Urges Hearing for Survivors, BBC
NEWS (Apr. 10, 2026), www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ex07l1qvpo.
13Zampolli appeared in many ways to be an active participant in Epstein’s sex trafficking
operation, bringing models into the United States for Epstein to recruit and abuse. Yet another FD-
302, submitted by a different woman, relates how an 18-year-old model came to New York and
worked for Zampolli. Like Melania and Epstein Associate 1, Zampolli arranged for her to receive
a visa and put her up on Varick Street. Around this time, she was recruited to give a massage at
Epstein’s house, where Epstein raped her. Traumatized, she left New York shortly thereafter.45
worked odd Jobs when she moved to New York . worked in
the s~rvice industry . When ■■■■ was 18 years old, she signed with .
, whose founder was PAOLO ZAMPOLLI . lived in a model ' s
apart:ment on Varick Street with two other girls . ZAMPOLLI was " sleazy" and
dated ■■■ ZAMPOLLI made her get a short haircut and then let her 90.
only lived in this apartment for approximately a year . This
modeling job was different than before because all she did was sit around
the apar:ment a lot. moved with another model , who Z~4POLLI also
Image: Redacted section of FBI-FD-302 from Jeffrey Epstein victim, seemingly groomed by Zampolli.
The available evidence indicates Zampolli, Epstein, and Casablancas all worked to further
a diffuse but interconnected sex trafficking operation. As set forth below, this sex trafficking
operation directly implicates Donald Trump.
Casablancas died in 2013. Donald and Melania Trump have kept Zampolli close.
Throughout Trump’s first term, Zampolli and Ungaro repeatedly socialized with Donald and
Melania. In the final months of that term, at Melania’s urging, Trump appointed Zampolli to the
board of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. In his second term, Trump appointed
Zampolli to be the Global Envoy for Strategic Partnerships, a position he served in until he was
fired recently.
46 He was also recently credibly accused of sexual assault by a young Republican
model, who claims Zampolli drugged and raped her in 2023. Her complaint explains that from “his
early career in the modeling industry to his current role as a U.S. Special Envoy,” Zampolli “has
leveraged his access to young models to cultivate and maintain relationships within high-profile
networks.” Her complaint also notes that Zampolli is “a fixture within President Trump’s social
and political circle.”47
45 EFTA01245554. Zampolli similarly employed another survivor and one of Epstein’s most trusted assistants,
Epstein Assistant 2, as a model to promote his real estate venture. Paolo Zampolli, TG2 RAI Paolo Zampolli NY New
York Real Estate Helicopter Boat Rolls Royce Super Models, YOUTUBE (June 26, 2010),
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcXlSDmMN-8.
46 Julie K. Brown, Ex-Brazilian Model with Ties to Melania Links Trump Envoy to Corruption Scheme, MIAMI
HERALD (Aug. 28, 2026), https://www.miamiherald.com/news/politics-government/article317033892.html.
47 Complaint, Drake v. Zampolli, 1:26-cv-07582 (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 30, 2026), https://assets.newsweek.com/wp-
content/uploads/2026/10/Victoria-Drake-against-PAOLO-ZAMPOLLI.pdf.
14Image: Zampolli on a recent taxpayer funded trip to Serbia.
15WITNESS ACCOUNTS: ELEVEN WOMEN WHO LINK DONALD TRUMP
TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN
There is reason to believe that this Administration’s cover-up of the Epstein files is driven,
at least in part, by a desire to prevent Donald Trump’s own misconduct from ever coming to light.
Donald Trump has been accused by at least eight women of engaging in assault or other
improper behavior in connection with Jeffrey Epstein. Epstein and Trump also each had a
sexual relationship with at least three other young women, at the time when Epstein’s criminal
activity was at its height. Together, these accounts reveal a darkly competitive relationship between
the two men centered on taking advantage of women, especially aspiring models eager to break
into the realm of New York fashion.
BEATRICE KEUL – 24 YEARS OLD
In November 1993, Beatrice Keul, a young Swiss model and financial services
professional, was recruited by a woman named Jill Harth to attend the Donald J. Trump American
Dream Pageant for 16- to 22-year-olds in Atlantic City and New York.48 According to an interview
with Committee Staff,49 at a press luncheon at the event in then-Trump-owned Plaza Hotel, Donald
Trump approached Keul and introduced himself, saying “Finally we meet Ms. Keul,”
mispronouncing her last name as “cool.” During their at least 15-minute introductory conversation,
Trump promised Keul that he would arrange a visa for her, stating that “Paolo”—a reference to
Paolo Zampolli—would “take care of that.” Trump further stated that he personally would ensure
her acceptance into New York University (NYU). And he repeatedly offered to take care of her
and arrange her travel, insisting either “I will take care of you” or, when she said she could handle
her own visa, “No no, my friend Paolo will take care of that.”
According to Keul, after Trump stepped away from their conversation, Epstein
immediately approached her saying “I’m Jeffrey, Don’s best friend.” Epstein then spent at least 10
minutes talking to Keul, all the time looking over and grinning at Trump, who had remained in the
room and was watching their conversation from afar. Epstein also made similar promises as Trump
and asked Keul to attend a party at Mar-a-Lago in the coming months, saying, “You know I can
take care of you. We organize many parties with Don.” Epstein, like Trump, stated that all of her
needs would be met: “Flights, accommodations, you don’t have to worry about anything.”
48 Some contestants were older than 22.
49 Keul has publicly given statements regarding this episode but has not revealed the additional details of her assault
contained within this report until now, instead previously choosing to state that she had talked “Trump down” when
he attempted to rape her. This section relies solely on extensive discussions between Committee Staff and Keul over
a period of several weeks.
16Images: (Left) Beatrice Keul and Donald Trump at Plaza Hotel During American Dream World Finals in
1993. (Right) Keul, second row, third from left. Provided by Beatrice Keul.
Later that day, Donald Trump’s representative invited Keul to go upstairs at the Plaza Hotel
to meet with Trump. Believing this meeting to be a lucky break for the purpose of furthering her
career and education, Keul accompanied Trump’s representative upstairs. He ushered her into the
suite, where upon entering, Trump reportedly grabbed Keul from behind and forcibly raped her;
in the process, tearing her dress and causing bleeding and bruising on multiple parts of her body.
Keul described the rape as “brutal.” Following the assault, according to Keul’s report, Trump sat
her on the edge of the bed, repeated his promises to arrange for a visa and NYU admission, and
made her promise she would keep quiet, saying, “[T]he show must go on.”
Keul reports that she finished the pageant in a terrified “daze” as her passport had been
taken from her on her arrival. She did not ask for her passport to be returned before the contest
was over, lest she indicate to Trump that something was wrong. During the pageant, she was also
summoned, along with four other models, to a private audition with John Casablancas, who made
her walk for him and made similar promises about taking care of her. She returned to Switzerland,
declining to participate in an additional Trump-sponsored pageant in Hawaii several weeks later.
Several months after the assault, Trump called Keul in Switzerland and reiterated his offer to set
her up with a visa and admission to NYU. She declined.
Several aspects of Keul’s experience at the Donald J. Trump American Dream Pageant
stand out and reinforce the credibility of her claims.
First, multiple witnesses, including Keul, have explained that she was not the only young
woman Trump was interested in that evening. At the same pageant, Keul met an 18-year-old Czech
contestant named Terezie who was staying with Ivana Trump and had grown up in the same village
17as Ivana. Terezie informed Keul that Terezie would win the pageant due to her closeness with
Donald Trump and stated that she intended to marry him. Similarly, in 1997, Jill Harth, the
organizer of the contest, claimed in a sexual assault lawsuit against Trump that on or around
November 20, 1993, Trump demanded she provide him “with access to a 17-year-old [sic]
contestant from Czechoslovakia, who was a contestant in the ‘Calendar Girl’ competition, whom
Trump referred to as a ‘sex object.’”50 This description of a young Czech model largely matches
Keul’s description of Terezie, who was brought to New York for the “Calendar Girl” competition,
the last day of which was November 20, 1993. Furthermore, Harth’s complaint detailed how Trump
called “several” models for four years after the Calendar Girl competition to offer them “positions
and/or career advancement help in return for sexual favors,” much the same way he repeated his
offer of a visa and NYU admission to Keul months after the competition.51
Second, the tactic of promising an NYU education to lure victims was remarkably similar
to Epstein’s own well-practiced modus operandi. Numerous women have come forward to the
House Judiciary Committee to explain how Epstein used the promise of an NYU education to lure
in and then control his victims.52 Keul would have had little way of knowing this when she reported
Trump’s similarly manipulative promise to arrange for an NYU placement to the media in October
2024—months before any public report of the connection between NYU and Epstein survivors
had surfaced.
53 Similarly, the follow-up call to Keul in Switzerland itself matched Epstein’s usual
practice. Epstein’s assistant from the 1990s also reported that Epstein routinely called foreign
models to invite them to the United States, stating “that on dozens of occasions in the mid-1990s,
the financier instructed her to call a pageant winner from somewhere in the world and invite her
to visit him in Florida.”54 Trump and Epstein seemed to share the same playbook for recruiting
and abusing women, all the way down to the university they promised admission to and the timing
of their follow-up phone calls.
Third and finally, the presence of John Casablancas and Epstein at the pageant match other
accounts of Donald Trump’s activities in and around the modeling world during this time and
indicate that the purpose of the event was not actually to further any woman’s modeling career, but
to find beautiful and vulnerable young victims. Indeed, Donald Trump’s statement that Paolo
Zampolli would provide Keul with a visa and Trump would arrange acceptance to NYU conforms
50 Nicholas Confessore & Julie Tate, ‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded over the Pursuit of
Women, N.Y. TIMES (Dec. 18, 2025), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html;
Terezie was 18 years old at the pageant, not 17; Complaint, Harth v. Trump, No. 97 Civ. 3135 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 25,
1997), https://www.scribd.com/doc/300193678/1997-Jill-Harth-Lawsuit.
51 Complaint, Harth v. Trump, No. 97 Civ. 3135 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 25, 1997),
https://www.scribd.com/doc/300193678/1997-Jill-Harth-Lawsuit.
52 Press Release, Epstein Survivors Reveal to Judiciary Democrats that Epstein Used Relationships with New York
University, Columbia University to Lure and Silence Victims by Promising Them Admission, Tuition, H. COMM. ON
THE JUDICIARY DEMOCRATS (Jan. 14, 2026), https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center/press-
releases/epstein-survivors-reveal-to-judiciary-democrats-that-epstein-used-relationships-with-new-york-university-
columbia-university-to-lure-and-silence-victims-by-promising-them-admission-tuition.
53 Oliver O’Connell, Pageant Queen Claims Trump Groped Her in Plaza Hotel Suite in 1993, THE INDEPENDENT
(Oct. 31, 2024), https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-sexual-assault-1993-epstein-
beatrice-keul-b2638620.html.
54 Nicholas Confessore & Julie Tate, ‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded over the Pursuit of
Women, N.Y. TIMES (Dec. 18, 2025), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html.
18to the standard practice in which Zampolli routinely provided these types of favors for other
models, including Donald Trump’s eventual wife. Furthermore, John Casablancas’s private
audience with Keul and other models not only indicates his and Trump’s shared recruitment of
women but the danger of these pageants, where serial sexual abusers like Trump, Epstein, and
Casablancas lurked behind every corner.
STACEY WILLIAMS – ~25 YEARS OLD
A Sports Illustrated swimsuit model, Williams dated Epstein in the early 1990s after
meeting him at a Christmas party Donald Trump hosted in 1992 at the Plaza Hotel.
55 During a visit
to Trump Tower the following year, she reportedly accompanied Epstein to Trump’s office, where
Trump groped her. In her words, “his hands were all over me. They were on my breasts, they were
on my butt, they were on, you know, my hips, up and down.”56 Williams said that Epstein and
Trump continued talking while Trump’s hands were on her, “smiling and grinning.”57
Once they left Trump’s office, according to Williams, Epstein berated her for letting Trump
touch her.58 CNN interviewed three women who confirmed that Williams informed them about the
incident with Trump and Epstein in 2006, in 2015, and in 2018, respectively.59 Williams later said
about the incident and the Epstein-Trump friendship, “I just think it was trophy hunting … I think
Jeffrey liked that he had this Sports Illustrated model who had this name, and that Trump was
pursuing me.”60 As in the case of Keul, Donald Trump reached out to his victim after the assault.
Several months later, Donald Trump sent Williams a postcard of Palm Beach that highlighted the
Mar-a-Lago Club in the foreground: “Stacey, your home away from home. Love, Donald.”61
55 Epstein’s Ex-Girlfriend Describes His Relationship with Trump, CNN (July 19, 2025),
https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/19/politics/video/stacey-williams-trump-jeffrey-epstein-relationship-allegations-
digvid.
56 Id.
57 Id.
58 Id.
59 Jeremy Herb & Sunlen Serfaty, Former Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Model Says Trump Groped Her to Show Off
for Jeffrey Epstein, CNN (Oct. 24, 2024), https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/24/politics/stacey-williams-donald-trump-
jeffrey-epstein.
60 Nicholas Confessore & Julie Tate, ‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over the Pursuit of
Women, N.Y. TIMES (Dec. 18, 2025), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html.
61 Id.
19Images: (Left) Trump’s Palm Beach Postcard to Stacey Williams. (Right) Stacey Williams in 1996.
JILL HARTH – 31 YEARS OLD
Jill Harth recruited young models to join Donald Trump’s “Calendar Girl” competitions
where he hunted for young women; she also was one of the first women to accuse him of sexual
assault.
In 1997, Harth filed a lawsuit against Donald Trump claiming that, in 1993, Trump had
hosted a party where he allegedly “forcefully removed” Harth from the “public areas of Mar-a-
Lago and forced [her] into a bedroom belonging to defendant’s daughter Ivanka, wherein [Trump]
forcibly kissed, fondled, and restrained [Harth] from leaving, against [Harth’s] will and despite her
protests.”62 Harth’s former spouse later told the New York Times that, despite there being numerous
models at the party, Trump and Epstein appeared to be the only two men in attendance.63 Harth
settled the lawsuit as a condition of Donald Trump settling and agreeing to a financial payment in
relation to a separate, unrelated lawsuit brought by Harth’s spouse.64
62 Dylan Stableford, The Women Who Have Accused Donald Trump, YAHOO NEWS (Oct. 24, 2016),
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-accusers-sexual-assault-153559631.html.
63 Alan Feuer & Matthew Goldstein, Inside the Long Friendship Between Trump and Epstein, N.Y. TIMES (July 19,
2025), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/19/us/politics/inside-trump-epstein-friendship.html.
64 Nicholas Kristof, Donald Trump, Groper in Chief, N.Y. TIMES (Oct. 7, 2016),
www.nytimes.com/2016/10/09/opinion/sunday/donald-trump-groper-in-chief.html.
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Harth also reported several other instances of Donald Trump assaulting or seeking sexual
access to other women. In addition to the incident with a Czech model described above, Harth also
detailed Trump’s sexual assault of a young model, Lauren Petrella, the same evening that Trump
assaulted Harth in 1993. According to Harth, Donald Trump snuck uninvited into Petrella’s
bedroom in the “pre-dawn hours” of the party at Mar-a-Lago: “a startled Petrella awoke and
inquired of [Trump] why he was in her bed. A learing [sic], groping Trump replied: ‘You said you
don’t sleep with men on the first date. Now it’s the second date and here I am!”65 An email released
by the House Oversight Committee shows that in 2015, when a New York Times reporter emailed
Epstein looking for “juicy info” on Epstein and Trump’s years as close friends, Epstein responded
with contact information for Petrella, saying he she was in a “photso [sic] of donald and girls in
bikinis in my kitchen.”66
JANE DOE 1 (A.K.A. JANE) – 14 YEARS OLD
DOJ documents released pursuant to EFTA include an allegation that in 1994 at Mar-a-
Lago, Jeffrey Epstein “introduced [a victim] to Trump saying ‘This is a good one, huh’ and Trump
responded ‘Yes.’”67 The victim was 14 years old at this time. As made apparent when viewed in
the version made available to Members of Congress, but not to the public, Jane Doe 1 was viewed
as a credible witness by DOJ investigators and prosecutors, and she was one of four women to
testify against Ghislaine Maxwell during her criminal trial under the pseudonym “Jane.”68 Jane’s
testimony was devastating for Maxwell’s defense. She described, in detail, abuse and sex acts that
65 Complaint, Harth v. Trump, No. 97 Civ. 3135 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 25, 1997),
https://www.scribd.com/doc/300193678/1997-Jill-Harth-Lawsuit.
66 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031604.
67 Epstein Files Transparency Act § 2, Pub. L. No. 119-38, 119th Cong. (2025); EFTA01660639.
68 EFTA01660637.
21occurred at Epstein’s properties in Florida, New Mexico, and New York, sometimes involving
Maxwell and groups of people.69
Image: Slide 18 from FBI internal presentation on the Epstein investigations.
This slide deck of “Prominent Names” in the Epstein investigation, was created by DOJ
and FBI personnel in the weeks leading up to Todd Blanche’s interview of Maxwell and seemingly
initiated in “Response to 07/10/2025 Director’s call.”70 The slide deck includes a reference to
Jane’s account of Trump and Epstein’s conversation. Yet, strikingly, when then-Deputy Attorney
General Blanche interviewed Maxwell, ostensibly to “pursue justice wherever the facts may lead”
in the Jeffrey Epstein case, he did not ask any questions at all about Jane’s allegations.71 In fact,
when on several different occasions, Maxwell proactively referenced Jane, he quickly redirected
Maxwell away from any further discussion of “Jane” or her claims.
69 Benjamin Weiser, et al., Accuser Describes Maxwell and Epstein Ensnaring and Abusing Her at 14, N.Y. TIMES
(updated Dec. 2, 2021), https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/30/nyregion/ghislaine-maxwell-accuser-jane-
testimony.html.
70 EFTA00164897. It is unclear who this deck was shown to, when exactly it was created, or whether there were
different versions. However, this email traffic, which references instructions from the “Director,” makes clear that
these agents were tasked with compiling claims regarding Epstein and prominent individuals by the highest levels of
the Bureau in the days before Blanche’s interview. Indeed, multiple such directives occurred. Yet another email sent
May 21, 2025, sought material for another PowerPoint presentation at the request of the “DD”—likely meaning
Deputy Director Dan Bongino. Id. Further, the attempts to gather this information hit their peak on the evening of
July 23 and morning of July 24—the morning Blanche began interviewing Maxwell. EFTA01648955.
71 U.S. Dep’t of Justice (@TheJusticeDept), X (July 22, 2025),
https://x.com/TheJusticeDept/status/1947670804122001581.
22In one instance, Maxwell volunteered to Attorney General Blanche: “I believe you’re
talking about Jane,” to which he responded “yeah”—indicating he was aware of her allegations.
However, as soon as Maxwell began to “address that,” meaning Jane’s claims, Attorney General
Blanche cut her off and instructed her not to share specifics. At various points during the interview,
Attorney General Blanche interrupted Maxwell and instructed her not to discuss Jane’s claims, for
instance, saying “yeah, yeah, I don’t want to get into … he said, she said.” Maxwell responded
“Absolutely, not. I’m not—I don’t want to go there either” and even more explicitly, “I’m not
going to do that.” At another point, Maxwell again raises Jane on her own and Attorney General
Blanche abruptly cuts in saying, pointedly, “Let’s not talk about individuals.”72 The whole point
of the conversation was not to uncover information but to create a conspiracy of silence and
strategically deter Ghislaine Maxwell from sharing information that was not public at the time
regarding the relationship between Trump and Epstein.
10 11 12 13 14 15 16 1 7 18 19 21 24 25 TODD BLANCHE: So some of the -- I think
even someone who testified at trial, but certainly
have publicly talked about, was as young as 14 when
she was introduced to Mr. Epstein.
In -- in your mind today, you don't -- you
kind of reject that that happened, that you saw that,
meaning you don't recall any obviously under 18 woman
coming to give him a massage?
GHISLAINE MAXWELL: Well, I believe you're
talking about Jane, and I'm --
20 TODD BLANCHE: Yeah.
GHISLAINE MAXWELL: -- very happy to
22 address that. I actually don't think that the
23 testimony is correct. 1 don't believe --
TODD BLANCHE: Yeah, look, I don't --
GHISLAINE MAXWELL: No. No, no, I'm
l not •• I j ust wanted to tell you how ••
2 TODD BLANCHE: Yeah, yeah, I don't want to
3 gel into -
4 GHISLA INE MAXWELL: No, no, no, I'm not ••
5 TODD BLANCHE: •• he said, she said.
6 GHISLA INE MAXWELL: •• no, no. Absolutely
7 not. I'm not •· I don't want to go there either.
8 TODD BLANCHE: Yeah, yeah.
9 GHISLA INE MAXWELL: I'm not going to do
l 0 that. But I believe that what took place, with a lot
11 of these people, is that there was a slide, right'/
12 So there was a zone and I •· he did meet
13 her and I did meet her, and I knew that she was a
14 young child and I knew that she wa.~ not an adult,
1 5 because •• but I don't believe he met her 'Iii she
16 wa.~ 16.
1 7 So I'm not -- I'm not doing a he said, she
18 said, I'm not doing that, because nobody will.
1 9 That's not what we're here for.
20 TODD BLANCHE: Okay.
l GmSLATNE MAXWELL So I think il's
2 helpful to put this on •• the time on the calendar,
3 because I think without that we, we're lost. So I
4 would say we'll go from the beginning '91? No. '2?
5 No. '3? No. '4? No. '5? No. '6? No.
6 In that time frame, you have the
7 allegations of Jane, who I dispute. I don't think he
8 met her until she was •·
9 TODD BLANCHE: Let's not talk about
10 individuals.
11 GHJSLAINE MAXWELL: No, no, no, I'm just
12 saying.
13 TODD BLANCHE: Yeah, ye.ah. I'm with you.
14 GHISLAINE MAXWELL: But there's only -
15 but there's only -· so in that time period, I am only
16 aware of her.
Images: Excerpts from DOJ’s Interview with
Ghislaine Maxwell. (Top Left) Transcript Day 2
at 292. (Top Right) Transcript Day 2 at 293.
(Bottom) Transcript Day 2 at 300.73
72 Interview Transcript of Ghislaine Maxwell, Day 2, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE (July 24, 2025),
https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-interview.
73 Maxwell Interview Transcripts, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE (July 24, 2025), https://www.justice.gov/maxwell-
interview.
23Attorney General Blanche’s actions, while perhaps not surprising given his former role as
Donald Trump’s defense attorney, potentially constituted witness tampering and obstruction of an
official proceeding—serious felonies. At the time of this interview, the House Oversight
Committee had scheduled an interview with Maxwell for August 11—less than two weeks later.
Blanche’s apparent instructions not to discuss a specific Epstein victim, and how that victim could
implicate Donald Trump, could easily run afoul of 18 U.S.C. § 1512, which forbids hindering or
delaying the communication of information relating to the potential commission of a federal
offense to a law enforcement officer, as well as corruptly influencing the testimony of any person
in an official proceeding—such as a congressional interview and investigation.
74 Similarly, 18
U.S.C. 1505 forbids corruptly influencing, obstructing, or impeding any pending proceeding
before Congress—a crime which would almost certainly encompass indicating to a witness that
they should not provide Congress with specific information that could implicate the President of
the United States.75
JANE DOE 2 (A.K.A. KATIE JOHNSON) – 13 YEARS OLD
In April 2016, a woman identified by the pseudonym “Katie Johnson” filed a lawsuit
accusing Donald Trump of raping and sexually abusing her on multiple occasions in 1994, when
she was 13, at a Jeffrey Epstein party in New York.76 She reported that, as a minor, she “was asked
to strip down to her underwear and give a massage to Epstein” and “massage the penis of Epstein’s
guest, Trump, with her hands.”77 She also reported that Epstein and Trump argued over who would
take her virginity, and Epstein became angry and violently raped her when he learned that Donald
Trump had done so.78 As shown by official FBI interview notes, Johnson, through her attorney,
reported these alleged crimes in detail to FBI.
74 18 U.S.C. § 1512 – Tampering With Victims, Witnesses, Or Informants,
https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1512.
75 18 U.S.C. 1505 – Obstruction Of Pending Proceeding, https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1505.
76 Josh Gerstein, Woman Suing Trump over Alleged Teen Rape Drops Suit, Again, POLITICO (Nov. 4, 2016),
https://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/donald-trump-rape-lawsuit-dropped-230770; Complaint, Johnson v. Trump,
No. 5:16-cv-00797, (C.D. Cal. Apr. 26, 2016).
77 EFTA01683592.
78 Id.; Ryan Parry, Exclusive: Trump’s 13-Year-Old ‘Rape Victim’ Dramatically Drops Her Case. Woman Withdraws
Legal Claim She Was Assaulted at Jeffrey Epstein Sex Party, DAILY MAIL (updated Nov. 5, 2016),
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3894806/Woman-alleged-raped-Donald-Trump-13-Jeffrey-Epstein-sex-
party-DROPS-case-casting-doubt-truth-claihtml.
24During Lhe f irst party, Doe was asked to strip down to her underwear
and give a massage to Epstein . Doe was asked by Epstein to do sexual
acts, but she refused . Doe was later asked to massage the penis of
Epstein' s guest, Trump, with her hands . Doe was told that this was what
she had to do in order to get a job and Doe complied . During the second
party, Doe was asked to perform oral sex on Trump and complied . During
the third party, Doe was made to perform oral sex on Trump with another
young girl named- During the fourth visit, Doe was raped by Trump
vaginally penetrating Doe with his penis . Epstein was angry that Trump
was the one to take Doe' s virginity and then went on to rape Doe by
vaginal and anal penetration with his penis . Doe struggled and was
struck by both men during the assault . Doe was then threatened with
violence by both men to not make any report of what happened : "We ' ll
make you disappear like- " Doe was not paid for this final party .
Image: Excerpt from FBI complaint form regarding the sexual exploitation and rape of Katie Johnson.
Notably, the FBI case agent responsible for this interview ran an internal FBI search that
indicated Trump and Epstein were linked by a common investigative case. According to this agent,
a search for Trump and Epstein regarding “exploitation of minors” produced a specific case
number that is one of several associated with Epstein’s 2007 criminal federal investigation.79
Sources within the Trump Administration confirm that a number of documents linked to this case
number have been withheld from Congress and the public.80
Two facts reinforce the credibility of Johnson’s claims. First, at the time of Johnson’s
statements to FBI, Jeffrey Epstein was not yet the infamous public figure he was to become. Thus,
if Johnson had fabricated the incident in an attempt to embarrass Donald Trump politically—as
President Trump’s campaign claimed—it is unclear why she would have made Epstein the primary
and slightly more violent perpetrator in her account. Second, Johnson’s extensive account of how
she was forced to give sexualized massages to Epstein matches accounts given by other survivors,
including many that only became public information much later.
MARIA FARMER – 25 YEARS OLD
Maria Farmer and her sister Annie Farmer were abused by Jeffrey Epstein in the 1990s.81
Maria Farmer, Epstein’s former assistant, recounted an incident in which she went to meet Epstein
at his New York office. There was no light on in the offices when she arrived, and while she was
79 EFTA01683872; EFTA01246277; EFTA01703108. The case number was 31E-HQ-C1461253. It is unclear why
Donald Trump would have been associated with this case number: only one other document besides this one has
been produced by DOJ or FBI linked to the 31E-HQ-C1461253 case identification.
80 Whistleblower Information obtained by the House Committee on the Judiciary.
81 MJ Lee & Devan Cole, Epstein Files Vindicate a Survivor Who Reported Him in the 1990s, but Others Are Still
Seeking Answers, CNN (Dec. 19, 2025), https://www.cnn.com/2025/12/19/politics/maria-farmer-epstein-survivor-
complaint.
25waiting for Epstein, a tall, imposing man in a business suit—Donald Trump—came into the room
and approached her while she was seated against a wall. According to Farmer, Trump “stood over”
her in a very imposing way, smirking at her like he was “in on some secret.” Epstein then emerged
from his office, laughing and saying “No, no. She’s not here for you.”82 Epstein escorted Trump to
another room, leading Farmer to suspect there was another girl in that office who was potentially
there for a sexual purpose (causing Donald Trump to confuse her for that girl). As the two men left
the room where Trump had ogled her, Farmer overheard Trump comment, “oh I thought she was
16,” although she was in her 20s at the time.
83 Said Farmer: it “felt very predatory.” Farmer’s sister
was 15 at the time.
Image: Annie Farmer holding a photo of herself and her sister Maria Farmer, both of whom were abused
by Epstein.
Epstein later told Farmer that he had “inherited” Donald Trump in his divorce from Ivana,
saying it was well-known amongst the staff that they were best friends.
84 Trump would often
appear at Epstein’s office during this time. Farmer’s accusation led Donald Trump’s
communications director to falsely claim that Trump was never in Epstein’s office—a statement
definitively contradicted by the recollection of numerous individuals associated with Epstein.85
82 Mike Baker & Michael S. Schmidt, An Accuser’s Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files,
N.Y. TIMES (July 20, 2025), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/politics/epstein-employee-trump-
investigation.html; CNN, Epstein Accuser Recounts Trump’ s Late-Night Visit to Epstein’ s Office, YOUTUBE (July 22,
2025), www.youtube.com/live/ZmagG6Odkow.
83 CNN, Epstein Accuser Recounts Trump’ s Late-Night Visit to Epstein’ s Office, YOUTUBE (July 22, 2025),
www.youtube.com/live/ZmagG6Odkow.
84 Id.
85 Mike Baker & Michael S. Schmidt, An Accuser’s Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files,
N.Y. TIMES (July 20, 2025), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/politics/epstein-employee-trump-
investigation.html; Nicholas Confessore & Julie Tate, ‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded Over
26Farmer reported her abuse to FBI in 1996 and again in 2006, relaying concerns about
Donald Trump in both instances.
86 Her reports to FBI appear to be unlawfully omitted from the
files released by DOJ pursuant to EFTA. This is a recurring issue: independent researchers have
identified missing FD-302s that are mentioned in evidence and discovery logs for Maxwell’s trial
but have not been produced to the public. For instance, CBS News determined that over 70% of
the roughly 5,000 documents listed in one such index, including FD-302s, could not be located
through searches of the released archive.
87
JANE DOE 3 (A.K.A “KATE”) – ~20 YEARS OLD
DOJ documents released pursuant to EFTA indicate that a young woman was a victim of
Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell’s crimes and was repeatedly introduced to older men by
Maxwell. As made apparent by other documents, Jane Doe 3 was, like Jane Doe 1, viewed as a
credible witness by DOJ investigators and prosecutors. She was one of four women to testify
against Ghislaine Maxwell during her criminal trial under the pseudonym “Kate.”
While her official FBI interview form is heavily redacted by DOJ, it shows that Kate was
introduced by Maxwell to Donald Trump with the clear understanding that she was available for
sex.88 The FBI’s notes state “Maxwell took [Kate] to a party in New York.” Maxwell “seemed very
excited that there would be a lot of great men for [Kate] to meet” including Donald Trump.
Maxwell allegedly “presented [Kate] to Trump and they had a conversation for approximately 20
minutes” before she “was invited to Mar-a-Lago where she was given a tour by Trump with Epstein
and Maxwell present.” Although Kate does not explicitly claim any misconduct by Trump,
Maxwell repeatedly made clear that Kate was available to Donald Trump, saying “things like, ‘Oh
I think he likes you. Aren’t you lucky. This is great.’” Kate stated that this was just like how
Maxwell “introduced [Kate] to Epstein.” Kate has consistently held that Maxwell appeared to be
attempting to traffic her to Trump in the same way she was trafficked to Epstein. In 2025, she
stated Maxwell “did introduce me to [Trump] and she introduced me to him with a clear message
of my being with him in the same way that she had trafficked me and brought me to Jeffrey
Epstein.”
Other documents in the Epstein files further establish and elaborate on the relationship
between Maxwell, Kate, and Trump. In an email dated December 15, 2020, Maureen Comey, one
of the lead DOJ prosecutors on the Epstein matter, summarized a call she had with Brad Edwards,
Kate’s attorney.89 The purpose of the call appears to have been for Edwards to provide
corroborating sources for individuals who could vouch for the connection between Kate and
the Pursuit of Women, N.Y. TIMES (Dec. 18, 2025), www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-
trump.html.
86 Mike Baker & Michael S. Schmidt, An Accuser’s Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files,
N.Y. TIMES (July 20, 2025), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/politics/epstein-employee-trump-
investigation.html.
87 Daniel Ruetenik, What’ s Missing from the Epstein Files? Questions Persist About Unexplained Redactions,
Missing Documents, Email Gaps, CBS NEWS (June 19, 2025), www.cbsnews.com/news/epstein-files-whats-
missing/.
88 EFTA00158676.
89 EFTA00158675.
27Maxwell. One was Alan Dershowitz. Another was Donald Trump, with the notes indicating that
“GM set [Kate] up on a date with him.” Other names, including those of men who knew about the
relationship between Kate and Maxwell, are improperly redacted.
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redacted.
Troublingly, Kate’s relationship with Donald Trump and their connection through Maxwell
were covered extensively in 1997 as a matter of tabloid gossip by the Daily Mirror, which actually
referred to Kate by her real name. An article at the time reported how “America’s best known
billionaire Donald Trump has fallen under the spell of a 20-year-old English girl.” 90 The tabloid
details how “several American millionaires already had their eyes on” Kate when she attended a
party “with Robert Maxwell’s daughter Ghislaine, who has introduced several of her attractive
friends to the property developer.”91
The use of the plural—Maxwell “has introduced several of her attractive friends to the
property developer”—is significant and revealing given that this introduction occurred at the
apparent height of the Epstein-Maxwell sex trafficking operation. So too is the account of what
came next: “Trump flew Madam Maxwell and the model south to the sunshine state, where all
90 How Suite! Trump’s Brit of All Right, SUNDAY MIRROR (Nov. 23, 1997),
https://www.newspapers.com/article/sunday-mirror/138828430/.
91 Id., emphasis added.
28three enjoyed a happy weekend together. When they returned to New York, [Kate] was installed in
one of Donald’s many apartments there.”92
Kate has publicly shared significant information about her relationship with Epstein, which
spanned several years and locales. As related in interviews, “In addition to the estate on his private
island, [Kate] said Epstein preyed on her at his homes in New York and Paris.” 93 She shared: “And
in every location there was this microcosm of acceptance, of yes people, who acted like this was
normal.” She stated that by the time Epstein began to rape her, “it was too late.”
Kate has not spoken publicly about her relationship with Donald Trump. But this much is
clear from her FBI interview and corroborating public sources: Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine
Maxwell abused Kate. Around this time, Maxwell then decided to introduce Kate, as well as
several other young women, to Donald Trump. Immediately after this introduction, Trump flew
both Maxwell and Kate to Florida and put Kate up in a Trump property. In short, Maxwell certainly
appeared to be treating Donald Trump as if he were a participant in the sex trafficking operation.
92 Id.
93 Sarah Fitzpatrick, et al., How a British Teen Model Was Lured into Jeffrey Epstein’s Web, NBC NEWS (Sept. 20,
2019), www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/how-british-teen-model-was-lured-jeffrey-epstein-s-web-n1056901.
2930JANE DOE 4 – 13 YEARS OLD
DOJ documents indicate that, in 2019, FBI interviewed a Jane Doe who came forward,
shortly after Epstein’s arrest, to allege abuse in South Carolina in 1983. Initially, a third-party
contacted FBI to share that the Jane Doe, when 13–14 years old, allegedly “bit President Trump
while performing oral sex” and then he “hit [her] in the face after she laughed about biting
President Trump.”94 The biographical details of the witness for this tip match that of an Epstein
survivor who joined a lawsuit against Jeffrey Epstein in 2019, and sometime thereafter, received a
settlement from his estate.95 That lawsuit claims that after Epstein initially molested Jane Doe, he
flew her to New York on “three [or] four occasions,” where he offered her up as “fresh meat” to
“intimate gatherings with other prominent, wealthy men” where she was “brutally and forcibly
battered, assaulted, and raped by these other men.”96
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The House Judiciary Committee has not been able to independently verify Jane Doe 4’s
claims against Donald Trump: while elements of her story have been confirmed, there is no public
record establishing Epstein visited South Carolina in the 1980s, and her assault by Donald Trump
would predate any other survivor reports by nearly a decade. While caution is warranted in
approaching this claim, part of the difficulty in confirming this account appears to be that DOJ is
still withholding a huge number of documents related to the allegations. The Charleston-based
Post and Courier reported that it reviewed handwritten notes by the FBI agents who conducted
Jane Doe 4’s witness interview, which revealed additional details about the abuse and the names
of individuals who may be able to corroborate her story. These handwritten notes have been
illegally withheld as “duplicative” by DOJ, despite the fact that new information is plainly
94 EFTA01660679.
95 Mitchell Black & Marilyn W. Thompson, She Accused Jeffrey Epstein of Assaulting Her in SC. Decades Later,
Women Like Her Live in Fear., POST AND COURIER (Jan. 11, 2026), www.postandcourier.com/news/jeffrey-epstein-
estate-hilton-head-teen/article_a58fcca8-ba02-4303-91df-35665fd69a36.html.
96 Second Amended Complaint, Doe 1 v. Jeffrey Epstein, No. 1:19-cv-07675 at 9 (S.D.N.Y. Feb. 12, 2020).
31contained within.97 Indeed, a conservative journalist recently shared that DOJ had sent him, and
not the public, these unredacted notes.98 If true, this would represent a knowing and flagrant breach
of the Epstein Files Transparency Act.
OTHER WOMEN
The House Judiciary Committee has also reviewed select public files that indicate Donald
Trump and Jeffrey Epstein may have had sexual relationships with multiple other women—
including Lauren Petrella, Jane Doe 5, and Jane Doe 6. These women have not come forward
as survivors. Accordingly, there is no definitive account of their relationship with either Epstein or
Trump.
99 The circumstances are, however, similar to those described in stories shared by the
women above who fell into the orbits of both Trump and Epstein. While we do not have the first-
hand accounts of these women, their stories further illuminate the pervasive ties among Donald
Trump, Jeffrey Epstein, and young women in their orbit.
JANE DOE 5 – 20 YEARS OLD
Public reports indicate that in 1995 and 1997, Jane Doe 5, a Scandinavian college student
at NYU, was photographed with Jeffrey Epstein at Mar-a-Lago—in one picture, kissing Jeffrey
Epstein. The Epstein flight logs show Jane Doe 5 and Epstein traveled on Epstein’s jet more than
a dozen times during this period: a number of those flights list only her and Epstein as passengers.
Following this relationship, Jane Doe 5 seemingly entered into a relationship with Donald Trump.
In 1998, she is pictured in photos with Donald Trump and his family at Mar-a-Lago and appears
to have rented an apartment in a Trump property. It was reported that Donald Trump was “dating”
Jane Doe 5 when he met Melania Knauss, then a model working for Paolo Zampolli. While there
is no evidence available that Jane Doe 5 ever experienced misconduct at either Epstein or Trump’s
hands, her relationship with both men is significant. Epstein apparently dated her while she was at
NYU, a school attended by many Epstein survivors, and Donald Trump dated her immediately
thereafter.
The more sinister and telling detail is that Jane Doe 5 is the woman identified in Epstein’s
birthday book as the one that he “sold” to Donald Trump. One page of the birthday book depicts
Epstein holding a check, with the caption: “Jeffrey showing early talents with money + women
sells ‘fully depreciated’ [woman’s redacted name] to Donald Trump for $22,500.”100 Jane Doe 5’s
real name lies under the redactions. People familiar with Donald Trump’s relationship stated that
she “became a point of tension in Epstein and Trump’s friendship” and Epstein reportedly
complained “that he believed the woman enjoyed spending time with him over Trump, and that he
97 Marilyn W. Thompson & Mitchell Black, FBI Records Detail Potential Witnesses of SC Epstein Victim. They
Aren’t Public., POST AND COURIER (Apr. 3, 2026), https://www.postandcourier.com/news/fbi-witness-jeffrey-epstein-
sc/article_5a467072-e68c-44fa-91a5-7b509ff6949c.html.
98 Rye, Conservative Journalist Shared Unredacted Trump Accuser FBI Notes That DOJ Hasn’t Released,
DOCUMENT ZERO (Aug. 22, 2026), https://rhowardstone.substack.com/p/conservative-journalist-shared-unredacted.
99 The reports regarding these women have been shared extensively online, and their names appear unredacted
several times in the Epstein files. However, the Committee has not identified them by name here.
100 Rebecca Schneid, Epstein’s Full ‘Birthday Book’ Has Been Released. Here’s What’s Inside, TIME (Sept. 9, 2025),
https://time.com/7315609/epsteins-birthday-book-trump-clinton/.
32was bitter when she ended up choosing to go out with Trump.”101 It is unclear why the check was
for $22,500. It is possible that the number is a reference to Jane Doe 5’s age, as she was roughly
23 years old when her relationship with Epstein ended and her relationship with Donald Trump
began. In that case, it would indicate that the potential joke is Donald Trump paying $1,000 for
every year of her age when she started dating Epstein at approximately 22.5 years old. This
reference to Jane Doe 5 is buttressed by the birthday picture and note Trump drew for Epstein,
indicating a shared interest in young women. In other words, multiple documents in the same
scrap book reference Epstein and Trump sharing a sexual interest in younger women at a
time when Epstein was engaged in serial acts of sexual molestation.
Epstein himself recognized that this connection was of interest to reporters: in an email on
December 8, 2015, he sent a New York Times reporter an email describing Jane Doe 5 as “my 20-
year-old girlfriend in 1993, that after two years I gave to Donald.”102 Epstein also gave the reporter
Jane Doe 5’s name to “pass on” to another journalist, seemingly so she could discuss the shared
relationship with him and Donald Trump.103
JANE DOE 6 – 21 YEARS OLD
In some instances, it appeared some women first intersected with Donald Trump before
associating publicly with Epstein. A Russian model, Jane Doe 6, moved to Florida in 1995 at age
21, and shortly after meeting Donald Trump, moved into an apartment in Trump’s 5th Avenue
building—“[n]otwithstanding the fact that Trump was still married to his second wife, Marla
Maples.”104 The New York Post, which wrote a contemporaneous article, stated that her lavish
accommodations were taken care of “courtesy of an unidentified sugar daddy.”105 In October 1996,
Trump purchased the Miss Universe pageant and, two years, later, Jane Doe 6 competed in the
pageant despite not having qualified through the proper channels, a sleight-of-hand supporting the
claim made by Keul that Trump may have manipulated his pageants to promote and provide
benefits to his own sexual targets and conquests.
106 Around this time, Jane Doe 6 spent time with
Epstein and other co-conspirators. Flight records show that, not long thereafter, Jane Doe 6 flew
on Epstein’s jet with Maxwell and Prince Andrew.107
***
101 Khadeeja Safdar & Joe Palazzolo, Epstein Birthday Letter with Trump’s Signature Revealed, WALL ST. J. (Sept.
8, 2025), https://www.wsj.com/us-news/law/epstein-birthday-book-congress-9d79ab34.
102 EFTA00839258.
103 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031457.
104 Craig Unger, “He’s a Lot of Fun to Be with”: Inside Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s Epic Bromance,
VANITY FAIR (Jan. 21, 2021), https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/jeffrey-epstein-and-donald-trump-epic-
bromance.
105 Id.
106 Id.
107 Id.
33Donald Trump has described these claims against him as political hit jobs.108 But the full
extent of all this reported misconduct, and the repeated crossover liaisons between Epstein and
Trump involving at least 11 different women, are impossible to explain away with that clichéd
deflection.
Consider the probative nature of the evidence:
• Chronology: The time period is remarkably consistent. With one exception, each
of these incidents reportedly occurred between 1992 and 1997 when Donald Trump
and Jeffrey Epstein were close friends, during the time when Trump repeatedly flew
on Epstein’s jet, and the pair were videotaped partying together at Mar-a-Lago.
• Multiple Witnesses: Eight separate women have shared significant detail about
sexual misconduct by Donald Trump, undertaken in coordination with, or in the
company, of Jeffrey Epstein.
• Common Accounts and Facts Reported: At least five of these women (Beatrice
Keul, Stacey Williams, Katie Johnson, Maria Farmer, and Jane Doe 4) related
extremely similar facts regarding how Trump and Epstein were fiercely competitive
in their pursuits of women and girls, and several related similar instances where
Epstein showed off ‘his women’ to Trump but then reprimanded and punished them
when Trump initiated or attempted to have sexual contact with them.
• Credibility of Witnesses: At least two of these women (Kate and Jane) were called
as star government witnesses at Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial, indicating DOJ
prosecutors and FBI case agents believed they were credible.
• Common Pattern and Practice: Even beyond these first-hand reports, there are
significant second-hand reports about three additional young women (Lauren
Petrella, Jane Doe 5, and Jane Doe 6) who had a shared sexual relationship with
both Epstein and Trump, including one who Donald Trump reportedly sexually
assaulted (Lauren Petrella) and another Epstein “sold” to Trump.
Paired with Trump’s repeated and false statements about his relationship with Epstein,
detailed below, these women’s stories provide significant evidence that Trump was aware of, and
may have participated in, Epstein’s crimes. If expanded to include other reports about Epstein and
Trump’s conduct, the available evidence becomes overwhelming.
These women’s reports also help crystalize our understanding of how Donald Trump fit
into Epstein’s world. In the beginning to mid-1990s, evidence indicates that Donald Trump and
Epstein partied together, engaged in an aggressive rivalry over women, and, at times, sexually
assaulted them together. To facilitate this sex trafficking operation, Trump and Epstein, working
108 Michael Sisak & Eric Tucker, WATCH: White House Holds Briefing as Newly Released Epstein Emails Reference
Trump, PBS NEWS (Nov. 12, 2025), https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/watch-live-white-house-holds-briefing-
as-newly-released-epstein-emails-reference-trump.
34together with known pedophile John Casablancas, and in conjunction with Paolo Zampolli,
recruited young foreign models and women to come to the United States under a thin veneer of
legitimacy provided by beauty pageants, all to ensure a steady supply of fresh targets and victims.
35THE COVER-UP: DONALD TRUMP’S MANY BRAZEN LIES ABOUT
HIS RELATIONSHIP TO JEFFREY EPSTEIN AND DOJ’S
RELENTLESS COVER-UP FOR TRUMP AND OTHER PROBABLE
ACCOMPLICES AND CO-CONSPIRATORS
The evidence that Donald Trump knew about Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and even
participated in them is further bolstered by the fact that, when questions about his relationship
with Epstein have come up, Donald Trump has unequivocally and repeatedly lied in response.
In 2019, after Epstein’s alleged suicide, Donald Trump minimized his relationship with
the notorious child sex trafficker, falsely claiming, “Well, I knew him like everybody in Palm
Beach knew him …. I had a falling out with him a long time ago. I don’t think I’ve spoken to
him for 15 years. I wasn’t a fan. I was not a fan of his.”109 That same year, Trump further denied
knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, stating “No, I had no idea. I had no idea. I haven’t spoken to
him in many, many years.”110
Nearly every one of these claims is demonstrably false or misleading.
Lie: “I know him, just like everybody in Palm Beach knew him.”
Donald Trump, July 2019
Donald Trump was no casual acquaintance of Jeffrey Epstein’s who knew him by
reputation or happenstance “just like everybody” in Palm Beach knew him.111 By all accounts,
Trump and Epstein were inseparable for much of the 1990s. They called each other several times
a week; they partied together constantly, either at Mar-a-Lago or at Epstein’s New York
townhouse; Epstein attended beauty pageants hosted by Trump and attended Donald Trump’s
1993 wedding to Marla Maples. In 1997 and 1999, Epstein and Trump were photographed
together at Victoria’s Secret events (run by alleged Epstein co-conspirator Les Wexner).
Epstein’s leaked address books contained 14 phone numbers for Donald Trump, including
Trump’s direct line as well as Melania’s;112 there are also many pictures of Donald Trump,
Melania, Epstein, and Ghislaine Maxwell socializing together.
Trump himself has described their close friendship in exuberant and suggestive terms.
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.” Just a year later, in 2003, Donald Trump signed a
109 Annie Karni & Maggie Haberman, Jeffrey Epstein Was a ‘Terrific Guy,’ Donald Trump Once Said. Now He’s ‘Not
a Fan.’, N.Y. TIMES (July 9, 2019), https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/trump-epstein.html.
110 Rebecca Schneid, Trump Reportedly Told Police 20 Years Ago That ‘Everyone’ Knew About Epstein, Called
Maxwell ‘Evil’, TIME (Feb. 10, 2026), https://time.com/7377403/trump-epstein-maxwell-files/.
111 Brooke Singman, Trump Says He Was ‘Not a Fan’ of Jeffrey Epstein, Despite Past Comments, FOX NEWS (July
19, 2019), https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-says-he-was-not-a-fan-of-jeffrey-epstein-despite-past-
comments.
112 Jeffrey Epstein: What Are His Famous Friends Saying?, BBC NEWS (July 10, 2019), www.bbc.com/news/world-
us-canada-48927942.
36birthday book for Epstein with a note that not only celebrated their friendship but again alluded
to their common interests. Donald Trump’s note, contained within an image of a nude young
woman, is included in the “friends” section of the book. In it, Trump wrote that “a pal is a
wonderful thing,” “we have certain things in common, Jeffrey,” “enigmas never age,” and
finally, “and may every day be another wonderful secret.”113
Images: (Top Left) Trump and Maxwell at the 50th Anniversary Party for the Ford Modeling Agency in
1997. (Top Right) Trump and Epstein at Mar-a-Lago in 1992. (Bottom Left) Trump, Ingrid Seynhaeve,
and Epstein at the Victoria’s Secret Angels Party in 1997. (Bottom Right) Melania Trump, Prince
Andrew, Gwendolyn Beck, and Epstein at Mar-a-Lago, February 12, 2000.
While Epstein and Trump had a falling out over a real estate deal, it appears possible that
Epstein resumed contact with Trump, or at least his close advisors, after Donald Trump won the
presidency in 2016. On or around November 13, 2016, immediately after Donald Trump’s
election, Epstein wrote to tell multiple acquaintances that he was attending meetings at Trump
Tower and “seeing trump people” despite it being a Sunday—the same Sunday when Donald
113 Michelle L. Price, Trump Note to Epstein That He Denies Writing Is Released by Congress, ASSOC. PRESS (Sept.
8, 2025), https://apnews.com/article/trump-epstein-letter-democrats-12c17f4c94cf14727062331526680ade.
37Trump was at Trump Tower conducting cabinet interviews and was “holed up … with his
transition team.”114
For his part, Epstein told author Michael Wolff in 2017 that he had been Trump’s “closest
friend for 10 years” before their falling out.115 One woman who socialized with the pair in New
York described the darkly competitive nature of their friendship: “[i]t was like a pissing
contest—who had the most women.”116 Even before Donald Trump’s rise to political power,
their relationship came under intense suspicion. In a 2010 deposition, Epstein was asked if he
had ever socialized with Donald Trump with girls under 18 years of age. Epstein invoked his
constitutional right not to answer, stating “Though I’d like to answer that question, at least today
I’m going to have to assert my Fifth, Sixth, and 14th Amendment rights.”117
Lie: “And what President Trump has always said is that he was from Palm
Beach and so was Jeffrey Epstein. Jeffrey Epstein was a member at Mar-a-
Lago until President Trump kicked him out because Jeffrey Epstein was a
pedophile and he was a creep.”
Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary, November 2025
Lie: “‘Listen, we don’t want you [Epstein] taking our people, whether it was
spa or not spa, I don’t want them taking people.’ And he was fine. And then not
too long after that, he did it again. And I said, ‘Out of here.’”
Donald Trump, June 2025
Trump is fond of repeating the assertion that he kicked Jeffrey Epstein out of his Mar-a-
Lago Club for being a “creep.” 118 This claim, plainly intended to distance Trump from
Epstein, is demonstrably false and contradicted by an authoritative source: Donald Trump
himself. Members of the House Judiciary Committee, including Ranking Member Raskin who
first found this evidence, and the House Oversight Committee reviewed a heavily redacted 2009
document in DOJ’s possession summarizing a conversation that Donald Trump, his Mar-a-Lago
manager, and his lawyers had with an attorney for survivors suing Jeffrey Epstein in 2009. This
114 EFTA0162202474; EFTA01744330; David Caplan & Tara Fowler, Anti-Donald Trump Protests Sweep US for 4th
Day, Arrests and Violence in Some Cities, ABC NEWS (Nov. 13, 2016), https://abcnews.com/US/thousands-march-
trump-tower-fourth-day-protests/story?id=43494086.
115 The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast), X (Nov. 2, 2024), https://x.com/thedailybeast/status/1852853415472226804.
116 Nicholas Confessore & Julie Tate, ‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded over the Pursuit of
Women, N.Y. TIMES (Dec. 18, 2025), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html.
117 Katie Hawkinson, Resurfaced Clip Shows Epstein Pleading the Fifth When Asked If He Was with Trump Around
Underage Girls, THE INDEPENDENT (July 24, 2025), https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-
politics/epstein-trump-video-plead-the-fifth-b2795557.html.
118 Luke Broadwater, Former Police Chief Said Trump Told Him ‘Everyone’ Knew of Epstein’s Actions, N.Y. TIMES
(Feb. 10, 2026), https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/us/politics/trump-epstein.html; Nadine Yousif, Trump Says
Epstein ‘Stole’ Young Women from His Mar-a-Lago Spa, BBC NEWS (July 29, 2025),
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cyvn7ee3539o.
38conversation apparently substituted for Donald Trump being subpoenaed for a civil deposition
relating to Epstein’s sex trafficking operation.119
The unredacted conversation shows that Donald Trump stated unequivocally that
Epstein “was never asked to leave” Mar-a-Lago. In the same document, Epstein’s lawyers
also reported that Burt Lemke, the manager of Mar-a-Lago at the time in question, also
“confirmed” that Epstein was “never asked to leave Mar-a-Lago.”120 This document
remains under redaction in the DOJ database, in clear violation of federal law.121 It is recreated
in an unredacted form below.
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Jack Goldberger •
Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2: 16 PM
Subject: Trump
To: Jeff rey Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com>, "Robert D. Critton Jr."
Spoke to Alan Garten, Trumps attorney Tnnnp and Brad in lieu ofa depo. Following was discussed:
Garten arranged a 20 minute phone conference with
Image: Improperly redacted email from Jack Goldberger to Jeffrey Epstein and Attorney Robert D.
Critton from October 14, 2009.
119 EFTA00740636; EFTA00740637.
120 Id.; Andrew Solender, What Jamie Raskin Saw in the Unredacted Epstein Files, AXIOS (Feb. 10, 2026),
www.axios.com/2026/02/10/trump-epstein-files-jamie-raskin-unredacted.
121 In a public hearing, in response to questioning from Rep. Madeleine Dean (PA-04), Attorney General Todd
Blanche suggested that this document was redacted because it was “a privileged communication between counsel.”
This, however, does not withstand the slightest scrutiny: there is no such thing as a general privilege for
communications between counsel. There is only the attorney-client privilege, and this communication does not
qualify for protection under that privilege because it reflected conversations between Trump and Epstein’s attorneys.
The only exception that might protect these communications would be if there existed a joint-defense agreement
between Trump and Epstein, but there is no evidence such an agreement existed. If it had, it would be damning for
Trump and Epstein and essentially a confession that Trump was involved in Epstein’s crimes. Finally, Epstein
forwarded the entire communication to Ghislaine Maxwell, further breaking any possible privilege by sharing the
substance of the communication with a third party. See Lisa Rubin, Blanche’s Defense of Epstein Files Redaction
Raises More Questions Than It Answers, MS NOW (June 4, 2026), www.ms.now/news/news-analysis/todd-blanche-
jeffrey-epstein-files-redactions-donald-trump.
39·········"··········· Forwarded message········· ........... ..
From: Jack Goldberger <
Date: Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 2:16PM
Subject: Trump
To: Epstein <jeevacation@gmail.com >, "Robe1t D. Critton Jr." <-....ii>
Spoke to Alan Gatten, Trumps attorney ~ arten arranged a 20 minute phone
conference with Trump and Brad in lieu of a depo. Following was discussed:
JE ever expelled from Mara Lago. No he was not a member may have been a guest never
asked to leave.
Mark Epstein said Trump on Epstein plane is that true. I've been on a lot of planes may
have been on his plane. No young girls on plane.
What do you know about the allegations against JE only what I read in the paper.
Trump over at JE house. I may have been there with my wife. Any young girls there. No.
May have been children of guests but that's it.
Trump specifically asked Garten to advise us on the interview. Brad had also previously
talked to manager of Mara Lago. Burt Lemke. Lemke confirmed JE never aske to leave
Mara Lago.
Image: Recreation of email from Jack Goldberger to Jeffrey Epstein and Attorney Robert D. Critton
from October 14, 2009. Only emails and phone numbers are redacted.
One item in the redacted document fairly jumps off the page. The email, sent by Epstein’s
lawyer, states that “Trump specifically asked Garten [Trump’s lawyer] to advise us
[Epstein’s team] of the interview.” In other words, Donald Trump asked that his account of his
relationship with Jeffrey Epstein, which Epstein’s lawyers were not initially privy to, be passed
on to Epstein. That request, and its phrasing, raises significant red flags that Donald Trump
wanted to make sure Epstein was matching his false narrative.
There are two possibilities here, and both are deeply incriminating. Perhaps Trump was
telling the truth and that Epstein was never asked to leave. In that case, Trump had been lying
for years about kicking Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago. But perhaps Trump did in fact kick Epstein
out of Mar-a-Lago. In that case, he lied to survivors’ counsel to protect Epstein.122
122 A third option exists: that Trump’s lawyers lied to Epstein’s lawyers about their client’s conversation with
counsel. While possible, there is reason to doubt this explanation. By doing so, Trump’s lawyers—experienced
attorneys—would have indicated that Trump had told two different stories to different sides of a lawsuit, thus
increasing his value as a material fact witness that could be called to give an official deposition and testify at trial.
There is significant reason to believe that is exactly the scenario Trump was trying to avoid. And even in this
scenario, Trump and his lawyers were lying to both parties: inexplicable behavior if Trump had no involvement or
knowledge of Epstein’s crimes.
40Perhaps because of this admission that he never kicked Epstein out of Mar-a-Lago, over
the next decade and a half, Donald Trump has been unable to maintain any kind of consistent
story about how and why his relationship with Epstein soured. In 2025, he stated that he kicked
Epstein out of his club because he “took people that worked for me” and that late-survivor
Virginia Guiffre was one of those people. 123 According to Trump, Epstein “stole her, and by the
way, she had no complaints about us, as you know, none whatsoever.” Yet, Trump and Epstein
remained close friends for several years after Epstein purportedly “stole” Guiffre in 2000.124
Not only did Trump and Epstein’s friendship remain strong in 2000, but roughly two years later
Donald Trump was still praising Epstein as a “Terrific guy” and “a lot of fun to be with.”125 The
year after that interview, in 2003, Donald Trump penned his now infamous birthday note to
Epstein in the “friends” section of the book, in which Trump wrote that “a pal is a wonderful
thing.”126 In short, Epstein and Trump remained close friends for at least three years after Epstein
recruited Guiffre from Mar-a-Lago.
Lie: “No, I had no idea. I had no idea. I haven’t spoken to him in many years.”
Donald Trump, July 2019, when asked whether he knew about Epstein’s
crimes
Donald Trump has emphatically stated that he knew nothing of Epstein’s criminal
activities related to minors. Recently released files, however, show that Trump indeed knew
about Epstein’s crimes and lied when he denied it. In 2019, Epstein sent an email to reporter
Michael Wolff that said, “Of course [Trump] knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine [sic] to
stop.”127 The Palm Beach Chief of Police also informed FBI that Donald Trump called him in
2006, saying, “[T]hank goodness you’re stopping him, everyone has known he’s been doing
this.”128 These statements demonstrate that Donald Trump clearly knew about Epstein’s crimes
in 2006 and then lied about it, more than a decade later in 2019, when public scrutiny of Epstein’s
operation intensified.
123 Minyvonne Burke, Trump Says Jeffrey Epstein ‘Stole’ Virginia Giuffre from Him When She Worked at Mar-a-
Lago, NBC NEWS (July 29, 2025), https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/trump-says-jeffrey-epstein-
stole-virginia-giuffre-worked-mar-lago-spa-rcna221810.
124 Multiple evidentiary sources, including depositions of survivors and Guiffre’s book, indicate that Epstein and
Ghislaine Maxwell recruited Guiffre from the Mar-a-Lago spa in 2000. Josh Gerstein, Unsealed Documents Detail
Alleged Epstein Victim’s Recruitment at Mar-a-Lago, POLITICO (updated Aug. 10, 2019),
www.politico.com/story/2019/08/09/epstein-mar-a-lago-trump-1456221.
125 Adam Gabbatt, ‘He’s a Lot of Fun to Be with’: Trump and Epstein Were Close Friends for 15 Years, THE
GUARDIAN (July 18, 2025), https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/18/trump-epstein-friendship.
126 Michelle L. Price, Trump Note to Epstein That He Denies Writing Is Released by Congress, ASSOC. PRESS (Sept.
8, 2025), https://apnews.com/article/trump-epstein-letter-democrats-12c17f4c94cf14727062331526680ade.
127 Melissa Quinn & Kaia Hubbard, Jeffrey Epstein Said Trump ‘Knew About the Girls,’ in 2019 Email to Author
Michael Wolff, House Democrats Allege, CBS NEWS (Nov. 13, 2025), https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jeffrey-
epstein-donald-trump-emails-house-oversight/.
128 James Hill, Ex-Police Chief Says Trump Told Him ‘Thank Goodness You’re Stopping’ Epstein in 2000s, ABC
NEWS (Feb. 10, 2026), https://abcnews.com/US/police-chief-trump-told-goodness-stopping-epstein-
2006/story?id=130010254.
41The President’s defenders have used the 2006 phone call to claim that Trump, far from
being a co-conspirator, attempted to alert law enforcement to Epstein’s crimes. Redacted
passages in the 2009 document summarizing a meeting between Donald Trump, his Mar-a-Lago
manager, his lawyers, and an attorney for survivors (referenced above) disprove this theory.
During that call, Donald Trump, when asked what he knew about the “allegations against JE,”
replied, “only what I’ve read in the paper.”129 At this time, Epstein, who had received a
sweetheart plea deal roughly two years earlier, was facing civil lawsuits brought by four different
survivors who had been harmed by his conduct. Trump could have shared his professed
knowledge of Epstein’s crimes and revealed the facts “everyone has known” about Epstein’s
child trafficking. But Trump chose not to. In other words, Donald Trump professed to know
about and detest Epstein’s crimes when talking to a law enforcement official who might be
inclined to investigate Trump, but then three years later backtracked when presented with an
actual opportunity to ensure that Epstein would face accountability in the legal system.
Lie: “I was never on Epstein’s plane.”
Donald Trump, January 2024
In January 2024, Trump took to social media to say that he “was never on Epstein’s
plane”—now widely known as the “Lolita Express.”130 This denial was completely false. The
Epstein files reveal that Donald Trump is listed on the jet’s flight logs and that he flew on the jet
at least eight different times during the 1990s.131 On at least one flight, Trump, Epstein, and a
20-year-old woman were the only passengers.132 An Assistant United States Attorney in the
Southern District of New York commented that, on at least two occasions, Trump and Epstein
traveled with potential witnesses in Ghislaine Maxwell’s trial.133
129 EFTA00740636; EFTA00740637.
130 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump), TRUTH SOCIAL (Jan. 9, 2024),
https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/111727606183781019.
131 Brad Heath, et al., Trump Flew on Epstein Jet Eight Times in the ‘90s, According to Prosecutor Email, REUTERS
(Dec. 23, 2025), https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-justice-department-releases-new-tranche-epstein-files-2025-
12-23/.
132 Jamie Grierson & Anna Betts, Newly Released Epstein Files Include References to Donald Trump, THE
GUARDIAN (Dec. 23, 2025), https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/23/trump-flew-alone-on-jet-with-
epstein-and-unnamed-20-year-old-files-suggests; EFTA00028716.
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Images: (Top) Donald Trump claiming he had never been on Jeffrey Epstein’s plane. (Bottom) Flight log
records listing Trump as a passenger on Epstein’s plane.
Notably, Donald Trump was far less definitive about “never” having been on Epstein’s
plane when questioned by lawyers in 2009. In that account, redacted in the Epstein files, the
lawyer asks, “Mark Epstein said Trump on Epstein plane is that true.” Donald Trump replied:
“I’ve been on a lot of planes may have been on his plane. No young girls on plane.” This, of
course, was also misleading or an outright lie. Donald Trump could not reasonably have
forgotten traveling on the plane multiple times. And there were certainly at least young women
on the plane with him.
Lie: “The President did not write this letter. He did not sign this letter.”
Karoline Leavitt, White House Press Secretary, July 2025
Lie: “It’s not my signature. And it’s not the way I speak … that’s not my
language.”
Donald Trump, July 2025
43In the realm of the absurd, Donald Trump repeatedly claimed that he never authored the
lewd birthday note to Jeffrey Epstein in 2003, even suing the Wall Street Journal for $10 billion
for alleged defamation when it first reported on its existence.134 When this lawsuit was dismissed
by a federal judge in Florida, Trump amended his complaint and refiled it to try to maintain the
ridiculous pretense that he was seriously contesting the fact that he wrote the note.
When the letter was revealed, Trump claimed that he simply did not draw things. “I
never wrote a picture in my life,” Trump said at one point, continuing: “This is not me. This is
a fake thing. It’s a fake Wall Street Journal story.”135
However, Trump did, quite famously, draw pictures and doodles just like the one in the
birthday note. In fact, Donald Trump wrote in a 2008 letter that he donated an autographed
doodle every year to a different charity. For instance, the picture depicted below was drawn by
Trump in 2005, just two years after the date of this birthday note, and then sold for several
thousand dollars.136 And despite the White House’s claims to the contrary, the signature at the
bottom of the birthday note also matches his signature on this drawing, as well as his signature
on other letters around that time.137
Image: Signed drawing by Donald Trump that sold for nearly $30,000 in 2017.
134 Michelle Stoddart & Alexandra Hutzler, ‘It’ s Not My Signature’: Trump Says About Alleged Epstein ‘Birthday
Book’ Letter, ABC 7 (Sept. 10, 2025), https://abc7.com/post/president-trump-declines-comment-alleged-jeffrey-
epstein-birthday-book-letter-dead-issue/17779866/.
135 Khadeeja Safdar & Joe Palazzolo, Jeffrey Epstein’s Friends Sent Him Bawdy Letters for a 50th Birthday Album.
One Was from Donald Trump, WALL ST. J. (July 17, 2025), https://www.wsj.com/politics/trump-jeffrey-epstein-
birthday-letter-we-have-certain-things-in-common-f918d796.
136 Drawing by President Trump Sells for Nearly $30,000, BBC NEWS (July 28, 2017),
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40760000.
137 Russ Buettner & Lazaro Gamio, Trump Says It’s Not His Signature. But Personal Letters Look Similar., N.Y.
TIMES (Sept. 8, 2025), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/08/us/politics/trump-signature-epstein-letter.html.
44How Epstein note signature compares
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signature. Here's how it compares to documents he has signed
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contemporaneous letters. (Right) Birthday letter sent by Donald Trump to Epstein from 2003.
Lie: “I don’t know Prince Andrew. I don’t know him, no.”
Donald Trump, December 2019
Trump has also repeatedly claimed that he does not have a relationship with Andrew
Mountbatten-Windsor, the former British Prince who has been stripped of his royal titles due to
his own involvement in Epstein’s sex trafficking scheme. In December 2019, Trump said, “I
don’t know Prince Andrew,” adding, “I don’t know him, no.”138 This was false. Trump had not
only had breakfast with Prince Andrew a few months earlier, but he also had been photographed
with Prince Andrew at Mar-a-Lago, with his then-girlfriend, Melania, in 2000.139 That same
year, Trump and Prince Andrew both attended a “Hookers and Pimps” Halloween party in New
York City, where Prince Andrew was accompanied by his close friend Ghislaine Maxwell.140 At
that time, Trump told People Magazine that Prince Andrew was “a lot of fun to be with.”141
138 Iliana Magra, ‘I Don’t Know Prince Andrew,’ Trump Says. Photos Say Otherwise., N.Y. TIMES (Dec. 3, 2019),
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/03/world/europe/donald-trump-prince-andrew.html.
139 Bianca Britton, Trump Says He Doesn’t Know Prince Andrew. Photos Tell a Different Story., CNN (Dec. 3, 2019),
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/03/politics/donald-trump-prince-andrew-photos.
140 Prince Andrew’
s Links to Jeffrey Epstein, BBC NEWS (Nov. 16, 2019), https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-49411215.
141 Lauren Egan, Trump Claims He Doesn’t Know Prince Andrew, but Once Called Him ‘A Lot of Fun’, NBC NEWS
(Dec. 4, 2019), https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-claims-he-doesn-t-know-prince-andrew-
once-called-n1096081.
45Images: (Left) Donald Trump, Melania Knauss (now Trump), and Prince Andrew at Mar-a-Lago on
February 12, 2000. (Right) Trump and Prince Andrew at Westminster Abbey on June 3, 2019. (Bottom)
Donald Trump, Melania Knauss, and Ghislaine Maxwell at a “Hookers and Pimps” party, also attended
by Prince Andrew, in October 2000.
After King Charles stripped Prince Andrew of his royal titles, Trump expressed great
sympathy—not for Prince Andrew’s teen victims and their families—but for the Royal Family:
“It’s a terrible thing that’s happened to the family.”142 He continued: “That’s been a tragic
situation, and it’s too bad. I mean, I feel badly for the family.”
Lie: “The president was never in [Jeffrey Epstein’s] office.”
Steven Cheung, White House Communications Director, July 2025
When public scrutiny of the relationship between Trump and Epstein increased—
including due to Maria Farmer’s account—Steven Cheung, the White House Communications
Director, responded to reports of Trump ogling Farmer at Epstein’s office by alleging, “The
142 Trump Says UK Royals Suffered ‘Terrible Thing’ with Pressure over Epstein Scandal, REUTERS (Nov. 2, 2025),
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/trump-says-uk-royals-suffered-terrible-thing-with-pressure-over-epstein-scandal-
2025-11-03/.
46president was never in his office.”143 This denial is overwhelmingly contradicted by a wide range
of individuals, including several women who gave personal accounts of being present in
Epstein’s office with Trump in the room, Epstein’s former assistant who witnessed the visits,
and Epstein’s brother Mark, “who said that Jeffrey had told him that Trump visited him
frequently.”144
Lie: “I've been fully exonerated” (referring to the Epstein file release).
Donald Trump, February 2026
Donald Trump claims that he has been “100% exonerated” by the Epstein files release.145
This too, as shown by the evidence below, is a flat-out lie and perhaps the most disprovable one
he has uttered about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. The documents made available to the
public strongly indicate that Donald Trump may have been involved in some of these crimes and
that Epstein possessed leverage over Trump due to his involvement.
The Epstein files released by DOJ do not include any communications directly with
Donald Trump, which is unsurprising for several reasons. First, Trump’s own DOJ has
unilaterally decided to withhold millions of pages of the Epstein files, with the likely dominant
motive, among others, being the protection of Donald Trump. Second, Trump famously avoids
email and text messages in general. Third, most reports, including most recently former
President Bill Clinton’s testimony before the House Oversight Committee, indicate that Epstein
and Trump had a falling out over their rival bids for a Palm Beach mansion in 2004, meaning
Epstein’s emails, which almost entirely date from after that time, reflect a time-period after he
and Donald Trump were close friends.146 Despite all this, the available records include evidence
which directly suggests that Donald Trump knew about and was complicit in Jeffrey Epstein’s
crimes.
• “I am the one able to take him down”: In a text message sent on December 3,
2018, Epstein messaged former girlfriend Eva Dubin about how individuals were
trying to attack Trump by focusing on his relationship with Epstein. Epstein
responded, “yes thx. its wild. because i [sic] am the one able to take him down.”
Dubin responded with a laughing emoji.147
143 Mike Baker & Michael S. Schmidt, An Accuser’s Story Suggests How Trump Might Appear in the Epstein Files,
N.Y. TIMES (July 20, 2025), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/20/us/politics/epstein-employee-trump-
investigation.html.
144 Id.; Nicholas Confessore & Julie Tate, ‘Don’s Best Friend’: How Epstein and Trump Bonded over the Pursuit of
Women, N.Y. TIMES (Dec. 18, 2025), https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/18/us/jeffrey-epstein-donald-trump.html.
145 Steve Benen, Despite Reality, Trump Claims He Has Been ‘100% Exonerated’ in Epstein Scandal, MS NOW
(Feb. 13, 2026), www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/despite-reality-trump-claims-he-has-been-100-
exonerated-in-the-epstein-scandal.
146 Craig Unger, “He’s a Lot of Fun to Be with”: Inside Jeffrey Epstein and Donald Trump’s Epic Bromance,
VANITY FAIR (Jan. 21, 2021), https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2021/01/jeffrey-epstein-and-donald-trump-epic-
bromance; GOP Oversight, The Deposition of President Bill Clinton on the Epstein Probe, at 1:58:08, YOUTUBE
(Mar. 2, 2026), https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgJrYKAl6T0.
147 EFTA01211045. Eva Dubin was Jeffrey Epstein’s girlfriend throughout the 1980s who later made Epstein her
child’s godfather; at one point, she sent Epstein an email stating, “Come and visit next week. [My daughter] will
have 5 friends over.” EFTA02423721. Virginia Guiffre testified that she was trafficked to Dubin’s husband, financier
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Image: Text message from Jeffrey Epstein to former girlfriend Eva Dubin implying that he had
incriminating information about Trump.
• “Knew about the girls”: In a 2019 email to journalist Michael Wolff, Epstein
stated that Trump “knew about the girls” and had asked Ghislaine Maxwell to
“stop,” potentially referencing his request to Maxwell to stop her known practice
of recruiting young women from the Mar-a-Lago staff to go work in the Epstein
network.148
From: J <jeevacation@gmail.com>
To: Michael Wolff
Subject:
Date: Thu, 3 1 Jan 2019 22:47:52 +oOOO
virgina roberts worked at mara Iago. to resign, never a member ever. . she was the one that accused prince andrew. . trump said he asked me
of course he knew about the girls as he asked ghislaine to stop
Image: Email from Jeffrey Epstein to journalist Michael Wolff saying Donald Trump “knew about the
girls.
”
• “The dog that hasn’t barked”: In a 2011 email to Maxwell, Epstein noted that
Trump had “spent hours” at his house with Virginia Guiffre, the soon-to-be
famous trafficking victim and survivor, and called Donald Trump “the dog that
hasn’t barked.”149 Borrowed from a classic Sherlock Holmes story, “the dog that
Glen Dubin. Koh Ewe & Solcyré Burga, The Biggest Names from Jeffrey Epstein’s Unsealed Court Documents,
TIME (Jan. 19, 2026), https://time.com/6552063/jeffrey-epsteins-unsealed-court-documents/. In other words, if
anyone was to know about Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking operation and how it could implicate Donald Trump, it
was the Dubins.
148 EFTA01028620.
149 EFTA00654425.
48hasn’t barked” trope refers to a significant clue found in a noticeable or unusual
silence. The phrase as used here is cryptic but may suggest Epstein’s belief that
Trump had not yet spoken about Epstein to law enforcement. Whatever precisely
he was saying, this email clearly indicates that Epstein strongly believed Trump
possessed relevant information about Epstein’s criminal activities.
From: "Gmax"
Subject: Re:
To: <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 02 Apr 20 I I 19:09 39 +0000
I have. been thinking aboul that..
..... Original tv1essage .•••••
From: Jeffrey Epstein <jeevac.ation@gmail.com>
To: Gmax
Sent: Sat Apr 02 14:25:45 2011
Subject:
i want you to realize. that that dog that hasn't barke. d is trump .. virignia spent hours at my house with him ,, he has never once. been
mentioned. police chief. etc. im 75 % there
Image: Email from Epstein to Maxwell stating that Trump spent hours with Virginia Giuffre.
These represent only a subset of all the incriminating evidence implicating Donald
Trump in the portion of the Epstein files released by DOJ. As discussed above, multiple witness
interviews with FBI—released as part of the drop—refer to Trump’s involvement, including
several credible allegations that he sexually assaulted women, that Ghislaine Maxwell
introduced survivors to him for the purpose of establishing a sexual relationship, and that Jeffrey
Epstein introduced Donald Trump to Melania Trump.
These files are seriously incriminating, which, to state the obvious, is the opposite of
exonerating.
***
Donald Trump has lied time again about his relationship with Jeffrey Epstein. These lies
are clearly relevant and go directly to Trump’s guilt and state of mind. In federal court, false
exculpatory statements may “be considered as evidence of consciousness of guilt.” United States
v. Perkins, 937 F.2d 1397 (9th Cir. 1991); United States v. Inserra, 34 F.3d 83, 89 (2d Cir. 1994)
(evidence of misrepresentation admissible to demonstrate knowledge or intent to engage in
criminal activity); United States v. Johnson, 46 F.3d 1166 (D.C. Cir. 1995) (untruthful statement
made to law enforcement was probative of consciousness of guilt). If Trump were not potentially
implicated in Epstein’s crimes, he would have no obvious reason to lie about his knowledge of
them. While Trump is admittedly no stranger to reflexive falsehoods and exaggerations, these
repeated lies have served a specific tactical purpose: they distanced Trump from Jeffrey Epstein
and his crimes in spite of the fact that he partied with Epstein, flew on his private plane by
49multiple accounts, considered him one of his best friends, and joked about Epstein’s special
fondness for women on “the younger side.”
50THE BOTTOM LINE: THERE IS MORE THAN SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE
TO LAUNCH A CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION
Attorney General Blanche claims that neither DOJ nor FBI possesses sufficient evidence
to support further investigations of Epstein’s accomplices, enablers, and co-conspirators. That is
an absurd statement.
The DOJ and FBI standard for initiating a formal investigation is whether there is existence
of evidence that a crime “may have occurred.”150 There is more than enough evidence that many
individuals other than Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell may have committed a crime. This
includes Donald Trump. To cover up this inconvenient truth, DOJ has actively obstructed the
Epstein investigation into any co-conspirators, attempted to prevent the release of the Epstein files,
and then released an incomplete and heavily redacted set to the public—all while withholding key
information about Trump in the process. As a result, this investigation has given a pass to all the
individuals who took part in this decades-long, multibillion-dollar international sex trafficking ring
that victimized over 1,000 women and girls.
Those responsible for these crimes must be investigated and prosecuted. In 2003, Congress
amended 18 U.S.C. § 3283 to provide: “No statute of limitations that would otherwise preclude
prosecution for an offense involving the sexual or physical abuse, or kidnapping, of a child under
the age of 18 years shall preclude such prosecution during the life of the child ….”151 As Maxwell
was prosecuted under this statute, so too others could be.
There are structural barriers to investigating Trump, not the least being DOJ’s guidance
forbidding bringing criminal charges against a sitting President. However, under this
Administration, DOJ has shut down ongoing investigations into all potential Epstein accomplices
and co-conspirators and has obstructed efforts by state and foreign prosecutors to conduct their
own investigations and hold these individuals accountable. DOJ has stonewalled an investigation
in New Mexico, refusing to provide state prosecutors with access to key evidence relating to Zorro
Ranch. Similarly, when British law enforcement lodged a request for mutual assistance for
evidence of Epstein’s ties to a senior British politician, DOJ refused to hand over relevant
evidence—putting the U.K.’s investigation “at risk of collapse.”152
Given the Administration’s clear pattern of protecting Trump rather than seeking justice for
Epstein’s survivors, it is clear that Trump’s partisan appointees cannot be trusted to investigate and
prosecute any of Epstein’s co-conspirators or share evidence with other jurisdictions working to
do so.
150 The Attorney General’s Guidelines for Domestic FBI Operations, at 21, U.S. DEP’T OF JUSTICE (2008),
https://www.justice.gov/archive/opa/docs/guidelines.pdf.
151 18 U.S.C. § 3283 (Offenses against children).
152 Letter from The Hon. Jamie Raskin, Ranking Member, H. Comm. on the Judiciary, to The Hon. Todd W.
Blanche, Attorney General, U.S. Dep’t of Justice, and Major General Vaughn A. Ary, USMC (Ret.), Director, Office
of International Affairs, U.S. Dep’t of Justice (Oct. 21, 2026), https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-
subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2026-10-21-raskin-to-blanche-ary-doj-re-epstein-
mlat-obstruction.pdf.
51At a minimum, DOJ and FBI’s efforts to protect Trump rather than pursue justice require
the appointment of an independent special counsel under 28 CFR § 600.1, which requires the
Attorney General to do so in matters where DOJ has a “conflict of interest” or presents “other
extraordinary circumstances.”153 This special counsel should be tasked with investigating not only
the President—as previous independent counsels from Archibald Cox to Robert Hur have
impartially done when the President’s conduct comes under criminal suspicion—but all of
Epstein’s potential accomplices and co-conspirators. DOJ’s decision to shield the President at all
costs has shielded all of those who perpetrated or enabled this sex trafficking ring. This special
counsel must also be tasked with ensuring all relevant evidence is shared with other jurisdictions,
like New Mexico and the United Kingdom, that are pursuing justice, conducting criminal
investigations of Epstein’s potential accomplices and co-conspirators, and holding these
individuals to account in criminal proceedings.
Given DOJ and FBI’s abdication of their law enforcement duties and prosecutorial ethics,
there is little reason to believe this Administration will take even this minimal step. Accordingly,
Congress must continue to use its legislative and oversight powers to pursue justice for survivors
and bring an end to the Trump Administration’s shameful, bureaucratic, and political cover-up.
153 28 C.F.R. § 600.1 (Grounds for appointing a Special Counsel). Crimes committed by a one-day President in his
private capacity are not protected by the Supreme Court's overbroad grant of immunity in 2024. See Trump v. United
States 603 US 593 (2024). Moreover, where the President is acting outside the bounds of his “conclusive and
preclusive authority,” he is also not immune. Id. at 609.
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