By Jane Lewis & Mary Jones | Tuesday February 18, 2026 | 6 min read
Newly released Justice Department records tied to the long-running Jeffrey Epstein investigation show that the FBI interviewed a woman who alleged she was sexually abused as a teenager — and that she had once accused Donald Trump of misconduct as well.
The documents were part of a large batch of Epstein-related materials made public under federal transparency requirements. Among them was a 21-page internal slideshow summarizing years of investigative work into Epstein and his longtime associate, Ghislaine Maxwell. The presentation included a section labeled “Prominent Names,” listing individuals mentioned in tips or allegations received by authorities.
One slide described a claim that Epstein had introduced a teenage girl to Trump in the 1980s. According to the summary, the girl alleged that Trump forced her to perform oral sex and struck her after she bit him. The date range listed — between 1983 and 1985 — indicated the girl would have been between 13 and 15 years old at the time.
The same allegation appeared in a July 2025 email thread between FBI employees discussing tips related to the Epstein case.
Another internal email from August 2025 included a spreadsheet of hotline tips. In it, an individual reported that a female friend had been forced to perform oral sex on Trump decades earlier in New Jersey when she was around 13 or 14. The tip claimed the girl bit him and was hit in the face afterward. It also alleged that she had been abused by Epstein.
The documents do not include evidence supporting the allegation against Trump, nor do they indicate what ultimately happened with that specific claim. The spreadsheet notes that the FBI followed up by sending an employee to the Washington Field Office to conduct an interview. It also referenced a potential criminal history match in South Carolina connected to the name and date of birth provided in the tip.
Details in the records align with an FBI interview conducted on July 24, 2019, which was entered into the agency’s system in early August — just one day before Epstein died at a federal detention center in New York.
The first pages of the interview summary are heavily redacted. The portions that remain visible focus largely on the woman’s account of how she first encountered Epstein and the abuse she says followed.
According to the FBI memo, the woman explained that her mother had advertised her babysitting services in a packet distributed to property owners and renters in a gated community in Hilton Head, South Carolina. A man responded to the ad, saying he and his wife needed a babysitter. When she arrived, she discovered there was no wife and no children — only a man who introduced himself as Jeff.
The woman described multiple instances of sexual abuse by Epstein. She told investigators she was afraid to confide in her mother, worrying that it would harm her mother’s business or that she would somehow be blamed.
Years later, shortly before the 2019 interview, a friend texted her a photograph of Epstein and asked, “Is this the guy?” She told agents the image immediately brought back memories. “It took me back,” she said, adding that his face was one she could never forget.
Before showing the image to investigators, she asked whether she could crop it to include only Epstein. Her attorney told agents she was concerned about implicating other individuals — especially well-known figures — out of fear of retaliation. The full photo, agents noted, was a widely circulated image of Epstein alongside–President Trump. The cropped version she provided excluded Trump.
When asked about the other person in the original photo, the woman acknowledged she had met him but provided no further details. Notably, the allegation involving Trump described in other documents does not appear in the formal summary of her 2019 FBI interview.
The circumstances described in the interview mirror public reporting about a South Carolina woman who filed suit against Epstein’s estate in 2019. In that case, a plaintiff identified as Jane Doe 4 alleged that Epstein hired her as a babysitter in the mid-1980s when she was 13 and abused her at his Hilton Head property. According to reporting by CNN, the lawsuit claimed Epstein later flew her to New York several times, where she was assaulted by other wealthy and powerful men he introduced her to.
The lawsuit describes severe abuse, including physical assault after she was forced to perform sexual acts. Epstein died in federal custody in 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges, and Maxwell was later convicted of assisting his crimes.
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When asked about the newly released documents, the White House pointed to a Justice Department statement issued alongside the broader file release. The DOJ said the materials include all tips submitted to the FBI, noting that some may contain false or unverified claims. The department added that allegations against Trump were unfounded and argued that if they had credible evidence behind them, they would have surfaced earlier.
Neither the FBI nor the Justice Department offered additional comment.
Speaking to reporters aboard Air Force One, Trump dismissed the allegations and said the file release had cleared him.
“I have nothing to hide,” he said. “I’ve been exonerated. I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein.”
The documents do not indicate that any charges were brought in connection with the claims involving Trump, and the released materials provide no evidence substantiating the allegation.