Buried inside the Justice Department’s massive Epstein document dump is a 2011 email that could blow a hole straight through Donald Trump’s long-standing story about when — and whether — he truly cut ties with Jeffrey Epstein.
The email surfaced from the DOJ’s release of roughly 3.5 million files tied to the disgraced financier. And this one line, sent just after midnight on April 18, 2011, is what has people zeroing in:
“Before I call Trump. with regard Virginia are there any other alternatives,” Epstein wrote.
That message was sent to William Riley, who, according to The Times of London, appeared to have been “hired by Epstein to investigate his victims.”
The reference to “Virginia” is widely believed to point to Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s most prominent accusers.
Now here’s where it gets uncomfortable.
Trump has repeatedly claimed he cut Epstein off around 2004. Last summer, he said Epstein “stole” Giuffre from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Florida. Trump has maintained that Epstein’s alleged poaching of employees from Mar-a-Lago led to a falling-out — and that he hadn’t spoken to Epstein since that split.
But this 2011 email suggests something very different.
If Epstein was preparing to “call Trump” about “Virginia” in April 2011, that would place communication between the two men roughly seven years after Trump says they stopped speaking.
That’s not a minor timeline discrepancy. That’s a direct contradiction — if the call actually happened.
The email doesn’t explicitly confirm the call took place. It references an intent to call. But even the suggestion of contact in 2011 raises serious questions about Trump’s claim that he hadn’t spoken to Epstein since 2004.
A social media account called “Trump File,” which describes itself as an organization documenting “events and crimes to hold Trump accountable,” posted about the email Sunday night, writing: “Yes, it’s real.”
Giuffre sued Epstein and his associate Ghislaine Maxwell in 2009 over sex-trafficking allegations. Her lawsuit opened the floodgates for other survivors to come forward. The cases were ultimately settled out of court.
Giuffre later died by apparent suicide last year, just weeks after beign fatally hit by a bus and given four days to live.
The newly surfaced email doesn’t prove what was said — or even whether the call happened. But it does undercut a key plank of Trump’s public narrative: that he had no contact with Epstein after their early-2000s falling out.
