Justice Department Releases Additional Epstein Files Containing Unverified Allegation Against Trump

The U.S. Justice Department on Thursday released additional documents related to the Jeffrey Epstein investigation, including previously unpublished records containing an uncorroborated allegation against former President Donald Trump. Officials said the files had been mistakenly withheld earlier after being “incorrectly coded as duplicative” during a large-scale review of Epstein-related records. The documents stem from a series of FBI interviews conducted in 2019 with a woman who made accusations involving Epstein and Trump, though only one of the interview summaries had initially been included in the publicly released archive.

According to the newly disclosed records, the woman contacted the FBI following Epstein’s 2019 arrest and alleged that a man named “Jeff” had assaulted her in South Carolina in the 1980s when she was about 13 years old. She later claimed she identified the man as Epstein after seeing his photo in a news report. During follow-up interviews, she added several additional claims, including alleging that Epstein arranged sexual encounters with other men and that she once bit Trump when he allegedly attempted to assault her during a flight to either New York or New Jersey. Investigators noted that the woman declined to provide further details in later interviews and eventually ended communication with the FBI.

Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein, and the Justice Department emphasized earlier this year that some claims submitted to the FBI contained “untrue and sensationalist” allegations. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt described the accusations as baseless and unsupported by credible evidence. The disclosure comes amid ongoing scrutiny of the department’s handling of Epstein records, with Attorney General Pam Bondi facing bipartisan criticism over redactions, withheld files, and the removal of some previously released documents. Despite the controversies, the department says it continues to review the massive archive, which currently includes about 2.7 million pages of Epstein-related material.

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