Bestselling author and journalist Michael Wolff says Jeffrey Epstein personally showed him photos of Donald Trump with topless young girls — and he believes the FBI may now have those images.
“They were in the safe,” Wolff said. “And I have seen him [Epstein] on other occasions take them out of the safe.”
Wolff shared the story on The Court of History podcast with former Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal and historian Sean Wilentz, claiming Epstein casually showed him disturbing Polaroids during a conversation after Trump was elected president.
“He said, ‘Wait a minute, I gotta show you something,’” Wolff recalled. “And then he went into his safe and he came out with photographs. They were Polaroids, I think, and he kind of spread them out like playing cards. And it was Trump.”
“I think there were a dozen of them,” he continued, “and it was Trump with girls of an uncertain age at Epstein’s Palm Beach house, where all of the things that [Epstein] would ultimately be accused of took place.”
“I remember very vividly three of them. There are two in which … topless girls are sitting on Trump’s lap, and then a third in which he has a stain on the front of his pants, and the girls are kind of pointing at it, sort of bent over laughing … three or four girls, and those are the ones I specifically remember,” Wolff said.
Wolff said the photos were taken sometime around 1999 to 2001 and suggested Epstein may have shown them to others. He said the images could have been seized by federal agents in 2019, when Epstein was arrested on sex trafficking charges and the FBI raided his New York townhouse.
“I think it’s certainly not unlikely that they were in the safe when the FBI came in after his arrest and took everything from the house, including everything that was in the safe,” he said.
This comes at a time when questions about Epstein’s connections to powerful men — including Trump — refuse to fade.
Though Epstein died in jail just a month after his arrest, his inner circle and alleged files have remained at the center of speculation, particularly around what kompromat he may have had on high-profile figures.
Trump has long downplayed his connection to Epstein. In a recent interview with NBC, he said: “Even Epstein’s lawyer said I had nothing to do with it … and as you know, I was not friendly with Epstein for probably 18 years before he died. I was not at all friendly with him.”
But others are openly calling out the silence. Billionaire Elon Musk recently posted: “Time to drop the really big bomb: Donald Trump is in the Epstein files. That is the real reason they have not been made public. Have a nice day, DJT!” The post was later deleted.
During the podcast, Wolff also explained his long-running contact with Epstein while writing Fire and Fury, saying he spoke to Epstein “on and off from 2014 through to the Trump campaign, and then the first year of the Trump administration.”
“Epstein and Trump had been the best of friends for almost 15 years,” Wolff said. “They came from the same place. They were instrumental, I think, in each other’s rise.”
He also noted Epstein liked to brag about ties to world leaders — from Fidel Castro and Mohammed Bin Salman to Vladimir Putin. Epstein once described flight plans for a trip to see Putin, though Wolff was careful to say there was a line between Epstein’s stories and reality.
“Let’s not go overboard on these things,” he said. “There was a reality, and then there was the somewhat augmented reality.”
Still, Wolff was clear: Epstein liked to gossip, liked to show off, and liked to talk about Trump. He also revealed that former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak had private conversations with Epstein about Trump.
“Ehud was interested in knowing everything possible that Jeffrey could tell him about Trump,” Wolff said.
Whether the FBI actually holds the photos Wolff described remains unknown. But if they do, it could directly contradict claims by Trump allies like Kash Patel and Dan Bongino, both Trump officials who’ve denied that any explosive Epstein material is being suppressed.
“There’s been like 15 years of people coming in and creating fictions about this that doesn’t exist,” Patel told Joe Rogan earlier this year.
But if Wolff is telling the truth, those fictions may be facts — and the truth might still be locked in an FBI evidence vault.
The FBI has declined to comment.
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