In a revelation that hit like a political thunderclap, author and Trump biographer Michael Wolff claimed on Thursday that he was personally shown lewd photographs of Donald Trump with topless young women sitting on his lap—by none other than Jeffrey Epstein himself.
“I am one of the people who has seen these pictures,” Wolff told Joanna Coles during an episode of Inside Trump’s Head. “And these are pictures that Jeffrey Epstein would take out of his safe and kind of display on his dining room table almost as you would playing cards. This amused him to have these pictures.”
According to Wolff, the photos were taken at Epstein’s Palm Beach home, near the swimming pool. They weren’t random snapshots floating around the internet. These came straight from Epstein’s own stash, pulled from a safe and laid out with the casual smugness of someone showing off a prized collection.
“There were specifically three that I remember—and this is now almost 10 years ago—but the three that I remember are two in which topless young women, and I don’t know the ages of these women, but they are young, are sitting in Trump’s lap,” he said.
And then there’s the third photo—more bizarre than the others.
“In the third picture, he’s wearing light pants and there’s a stain on the front of his trousers,” Wolff continued. “And the girls—three, four, four or five as I remember—are pointing at the stain and laughing. And that is what I remember.”
Wolff says he urged Epstein to release the images after Trump was elected president. Epstein refused.
“And he said, ‘I can’t now. I may be such and such, but I’m not crazy,’ implying that he had some reason to fear the wrath of Donald Trump,” Wolff said.
The claim adds fuel to a fire that’s already burning hot. Earlier this week, Attorney General Pam Bondi was grilled by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse during a Senate hearing. Whitehouse pressed her on whether the FBI found such photos during their search of Epstein’s properties.
Bondi didn’t answer the question. Instead, she attacked Whitehouse with a deflection straight out of the Trump playbook.
“You know, Senator Whitehouse, you sit here and make salacious remarks, once again trying to slander President Trump left and right when you’re the one who was taking money from one of Epstein’s closest confidants,” Bondi snapped, falsely accusing Whitehouse of accepting campaign donations from Democratic donor and LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman.
Hoffman, who has admitted to meeting Epstein after his 2008 conviction, told Axios in 2019 that he regretted those interactions. But Whitehouse was quick to respond.
“This isn’t the ‘gotcha’ moment the AG was hoping for,” he said. “Campaign donations are public records — I haven’t received a single contribution from the person AG Bondi names here. (Some fact-checker!)”
Back at the White House, the official response to Wolff’s claims came with all the subtlety of a wrecking ball.
“Michael Wolff is a lying sack of s–t and has been proven to be a fraud,” said Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung in a statement to The Daily Beast. “He routinely fabricates stories originating from his sick and warped imagination, only possible because he has a severe and debilitating case of Trump Derangement Syndrome that has rotted his peanut-sized brain.”
Wolff, for his part, isn’t backing down. This isn’t the first time he’s made enemies inside Trump world, but the photo story may be the most explosive claim yet in a long string of scandals circling the president.
The question now: If these photos exist—and if the FBI really did find them—what happens next? For now, silence from the Department of Justice. But the fuse has been lit.
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