3 min readWashingtonUpdated: Mar 6, 2026 11:43 PM IST
Commuters walk past a bus stop near Nine Elms Station as activists put up a poster showing President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein near the US Embassy in London. (AP/ File Photo)
The US Department of Justice has released previously undisclosed FBI records summarising the interview with a woman who made allegations against Donald Trump in connection with the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
The documents published on Thursday interviews conducted by FBI agents in 2019 as part of the broader investigation into Epstein’s alleged sex trafficking activities. According to the released summaries, the unidentified woman claimed that Trump attempted to force her to perform oral sex after Epstein introduced her to him in New York or New Jersey during the 1980s, when she was between 13 and 15 years old.
The Justice Department had earlier confirmed that agents interviewed the woman four times in 2019 but had released a summary of only one interview, which focused on allegations that Epstein molested her when she was a teenager. The newly disclosed documents provide additional details from the remaining interviews.
The White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment. However, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt told Politico, which first reported the disclosures, that the claims were “completely baseless accusations, backed by zero credible evidence.”
The Justice Department cautioned that some of the documents contain “untrue and sensationalist claims made against President Trump.” Reuters said it could not independently verify the allegations, and FBI records indicate investigators stopped interviewing the woman later in 2019.
In a statement posted on the social media platform X, the Justice Department said the documents were among 15 records that had been “incorrectly coded as duplicative” and therefore were not released earlier.
The disclosures come amid heightened scrutiny in Congress over how the government is handling documents related to the Epstein investigation. Democrats have accused the Trump administration of withholding records linked to the president. A committee in the US House of Representatives has voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to question her about the department’s handling of the materials.
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Trump has previously said his association with Epstein ended in the mid-2000s and has denied knowledge of the financier’s alleged sexual abuse.
Earlier records released by the Justice Department indicated Trump flew several times on Epstein’s plane in the 1990s, which Trump has denied. An FBI interview record also stated that after Epstein first faced sexual misconduct allegations, Trump contacted the police chief in Palm Beach, saying that “everyone has known he’s been doing this.”
According to the summary of the woman’s final interview with investigators in October 2019, during Trump’s first presidency, agents asked whether she would be willing to provide additional information about him. The report states she questioned the value of doing so, asking what the point would be “when there was a strong possibility nothing could be done about it.”
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