The FBI interviewed a woman who credibly accused President Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a teenager after Jeffrey Epstein allegedly introduced them, according to documents released in the Justice Department’s Epstein file dump.
A 21-page FBI slideshow summarizing the government’s investigation into Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell included the allegation under a slide titled “Prominent Names.”
According to the document, a redacted victim “stated Epstein introduced her to Trump who subsequently forced her head down to his exposed penis which she subsequently bit. In response, Trump punched her in the head and kicked her out.” The slideshow noted the alleged incident occurred between 1983 and 1985, when the accuser would have been 13 to 15 years old.
The tip originated from a call to an FBI hotline. A friend of the alleged victim reported that an “unidentified female friend” was forced to perform oral sex on Trump approximately 35 years ago in New Jersey when she was around 13 or 14, and was “hit in the face after she laughed about biting President Trump.”
An FBI spreadsheet indicated agents followed up on the tip, dispatching an employee to the “Washington Office” to conduct an interview. The database also noted “results matching name and DOB for criminal history in South Carolina.”
Those biographical details align with a separate FBI writeup from July 24, 2019—logged into the agency’s system on August 9, 2019, just one day before Epstein died in a New York correctional facility. That document describes an interview with a woman who first met Epstein as a teenager in Hilton Head after her mother placed a babysitting ad.
During the FBI interview, the woman received a photo from a friend asking “Is this the guy?” Before showing agents the image, she asked if she could crop it to show only Epstein’s face. Her attorney explained she was “concerned about implicating additional individuals, and specifically any that were well known, due to fear of retaliation.”
The FBI noted the original photo was “a widely distributed photograph of JEFFREY EPSTEIN and current United States President DONALD TRUMP.” When asked about the cropped-out individual, the woman said only that it was “someone she had met.”
The allegation that Trump sexually abused the woman was not brought up during the FBI interview and does not appear in written communications about her case. It remains unclear what became of the investigation.
The details match public reporting about a South Carolina Epstein survivor identified as Jane Doe 4 in a 2019 lawsuit, which alleged Epstein flew her to New York for “intimate gatherings with other prominent, wealthy men” where she was “brutally and forcibly battered, assaulted, and raped.”
The Justice Department, in a statement accompanying the file release, preemptively dismissed the allegations: “Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false.”
Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Monday that he’s been “exonerated” by the Epstein files. “I have nothing to hide,” he said. “I have nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein.”