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Jeffrey Epstein, left, and Donald Trump appear together at the Mar-a-Lago estate in Palm Beach, Fla., in 1997. Emails released Wednesday by the House Oversight Committee say Trump spent \u201chours\u201d with a victim at Epstein\u2019s home and \u201cknew about the girls.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Three FBI interviews that contain graphic sexual and physical assault allegations against President Donald Trump were released Thursday by the Justice Department.<\/p>\n
The reports were follow-up interviews a woman gave to the FBI in 2019, when the agency was investigating Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell\u2019s sex trafficking crimes.<\/p>\n
There is no indication in the reports whether the FBI was able to verify her claims. The White House on Thursday called the woman\u2019s allegations \u201cbaseless.\u201d<\/p>\n
But a DOJ source told the Miami Herald that agents found her to be credible \u2013 and that they would not have interviewed her four times if they thought she was lying. In the end, she declined to cooperate with their investigation, and they lost touch with her, the source said.<\/p>\n
Her first interview, on July 24, 2019, was contained in the Epstein files that were released by the DOJ in January. That report, which was redacted, said that the woman alleged she was raped by Jeffrey Epstein in the 1980s, when she was about 13 and living in Hilton Head, South Carolina, with her mother. Her mother, who worked in real estate, had put an advertisement for babysitting services in a packet provided to her tenants. Epstein responded, the report said, and she sent her daughter. Epstein gave her drugs and raped her over the course of several years, the report said.<\/p>\n
READ MORE: Perversion of Justice: The Jeffrey Epstein story<\/a><\/p>\n That interview summary did not contain Trump\u2019s name, although the report was heavily redacted and the woman alluded to having a photograph of Trump on her phone, which agents noted to be a widely distributed photo of Trump and Epstein. When pressed further by the agents, she became emotional and ended the interview.<\/p>\n An examination of the date stamps showed that she was interviewed three more times \u2013 but those FBI interviews were not part of the files, prompting a public outcry earlier this week. The controversy comes as Attorney General Pam Bondi has been under fire over the DOJ\u2019s handling of the files, which were released under the Epstein Files Transparency Act passed by Congress in November.<\/p>\n The DOJ said the missing files had not been published because they were incorrectly marked as \u201cduplicative.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n In those subsequent interviews, the woman described how Epstein trafficked her to several men, including Trump, in the 1980s.<\/p>\n She was interviewed again by the FBI on Aug. 7, 2019, Aug. 20, 2019 and Oct. 16, 2019.<\/p>\n In her second interview, she claimed that Epstein either flew or drove her from South Carolina to New York or New Jersey when she was between 13 and 15 years old. \u201cShe was introduced to someone with money, money\u2026it was Donald Trump,\u201d the FBI report said.<\/p>\n She recalled she was in a \u201cvery tall building with huge rooms\u201d when she met Trump, whom she said immediately didn\u2019t like her because she was a \u201cboy-girl\u201d \u2013 or tomboy.<\/p>\n She claimed she was with Epstein and several other people who left her alone in the room with Trump.<\/p>\n \u201cLet me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,\u201d she recalled Trump saying, according to the FBI report.<\/p>\n She said he unzipped his pants and forced her head to his penis. She said she immediately bit him and Trump struck her, the report said. She told the FBI agents that she bit him because he \u201cdisgusted\u201d her.<\/p>\n In her third interview, she told agents she wanted to clarify how Trump reacted to her biting him, explaining that Trump \u201cpulled her hair and punched her on the side of the head.\u201d<\/p>\n She also said that Epstein blackmailed her mother by saying he had explicit photographs of her daughter, and that her mother later went to prison for embezzling money from her job in an effort to purchase the photos from Epstein.<\/p>\n The woman could not name any of the other men Epstein trafficked her to, except for a man she identified as \u201cJim Atkins,\u201d whom she believed worked for an Ohio university. The Miami Herald could not locate him on deadline.<\/p>\n During her third interview with agents, she detailed how she and her mother had received numerous death threats and had twice been run off the road. She said she felt she was being threatened by Epstein and Trump. She said the callers told her \u201cwe know where you\u2019re at, you need to keep your mouth shut.\u201d<\/p>\n In the last interview, in October 2019, she said she felt \u201cwhat\u2019s the point?\u201d The assaults had taken place so long ago, she said, that she felt nothing could be done now.<\/p>\n The woman\u2019s allegations were included in a July 2025 FBI PowerPoint presentation which listed the uncorroborated allegations against several men, including Trump.<\/p>\n Trump has denied any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein, and many of the materials released by the Justice Department lack substantiation and context.<\/p>\n White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, in an emailed statement to the Herald, said the woman\u2019s accusations had no validity.<\/p>\n \u201cAs we have said countless times, President Trump has been totally exonerated by the release of the Epstein Files.\u201d She said the woman\u2019s statements were backed by \u201czero credible evidence from a sadly disturbed woman who has an extensive criminal history.\u201d<\/p>\n The Herald, which is not naming the woman, found no \u201cextensive\u201d criminal history for her. She was arrested for theft in the past, public records show, but the charges were dismissed.<\/p>\n In 2019, the woman joined a civil lawsuit<\/a> against the Epstein estate which was settled. Trump was not mentioned in the suit.<\/p>\n This story was originally published March 5, 2026 at 11:34 PM.<\/p>\n Julie K. Brown<\/a><\/p>\n Miami Herald<\/p>\n Julie K. Brown is a member of the Miami Herald\u2019s Investigative Team. Her 2017 probe into Palm Beach sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein won multiple journalism awards, including a George Polk Award. She was also a member of the Herald\u2019s 2022 Pulitzer-Prize-winning team recognized for its coverage of the Surfside condo collapse.
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