Several details provided by a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was 13 were later confirmed through public records, according to a new report that reviewed FBI interview summaries released in the Justice Department’s Epstein files.
The woman spoke with federal investigators four times in 2019 about alleged abuse by convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and other men during the 1980s. The interviews remained undisclosed for years before being released last week as part of additional documents tied to the Epstein investigation.
According to the Post and Courier, the woman provided investigators with details about her family history, locations she lived, and criminal charges involving her mother. The newspaper reported that several of those claims were confirmed through archived court records and historical news reports.
The newly verified details do not directly prove the allegation against Trump. However, they indicate that parts of the woman’s background described during the FBI interviews appear to match existing public records.
In the interviews, the woman alleged that Epstein began abusing her when she was a teenager after responding to a babysitting advertisement her mother placed in materials distributed to real estate clients in South Carolina. She said Epstein trafficked her to multiple men between the ages of 13 and 15.
She told investigators that one encounter involved Trump, who at the time was developing casinos in Atlantic City. According to an FBI summary of the interview, the woman said Epstein took her to a large building in the New York or New Jersey area where she met Trump.
The FBI document states that she alleged Trump asked others in the room to leave before sexually assaulting her. The summary also records her claim that she bit him during the encounter and that he struck her before ordering others to remove her from the room.
Trump has denied any wrongdoing related to Epstein and has never been charged with a crime connected to the allegations.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, dismissed the claims as “completely baseless accusations.” Leavitt also argued the claims lack credibility and noted that the Justice Department had been aware of them for years without bringing charges, the Daily Beast reports.
Among the details corroborated by the Post and Courier were the woman’s statements about her mother’s criminal case. The woman told investigators that her mother embezzled money from an employer in the mid-1980s while trying to pay Epstein, who she said was blackmailing her with explicit photographs.
Court records reviewed by the newspaper show that the woman’s mother was accused of stealing approximately $22,000 from a real estate employer and later served time in federal prison near Columbia, South Carolina.
The woman also told the FBI she encountered Epstein at a Rick James concert in Savannah, Georgia, when she was about 15 years old. Historical records confirm that James frequently performed in the Savannah area during that period, the report said.
She additionally described one alleged abuser as an Ohio businessman connected to a Cincinnati-area college. According to the Post and Courier, a businessman matching the description served on the board of that college at the time.
The Justice Department released the interview summaries after acknowledging that some documents in the Epstein files had been incorrectly categorized and withheld. Officials said an internal review later identified additional records that were not duplicates and could be made public.
Federal officials say the release is part of a broader effort to provide access to documents connected to the Epstein investigation. Trump’s Justice Department previously said hundreds of lawyers reviewed millions of pages of records related to Epstein’s activities before making them public.
The woman told investigators in her final interview that she was uncertain whether pursuing the allegations would lead to any outcome, noting that the events she described had taken place decades earlier.
