The FBI was able to verify multiple details from the account of a woman who accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old, according to a new report.
The woman sat for four interviews with FBI agents in 2019, describing alleged abuse by Trump and convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Those interviews were kept secret by the DOJ until last week’s release of the Epstein files.
Now, The Post and Courier has corroborated several aspects of the woman’s life story using archived government records and news reports. Her claims about her family background, legal history, and other biographical details all checked out—though none of the verified information directly relates to her accusations against Trump.
In her account to investigators, the woman alleged that Epstein began trafficking her to men when she was between 13 and 15 years old, after he responded to a babysitting advertisement her mother had placed. She claimed Trump forced her to perform a sex act on him sometime around 1984.
“Let me teach you how little girls are supposed to be,” she alleged Trump said to her.
When she bit him, she told the FBI, Trump “pulled her hair and punched her on the side of her head.”
The woman described meeting Trump in a “very tall building with huge rooms” in the New York or New Jersey area. At the time, Trump was a developer with a new casino in Atlantic City.
The verified details paint a picture of a woman who was truthful about the checkable facts of her life. She accurately described an Ohio businessman who abused her, including his physical appearance and affiliation with a Cincinnati-based college—records confirm he was a board member. She recalled seeing Epstein at a Rick James concert in Savannah when she was about 15; newspaper archives confirm James regularly performed there at the time.
She also told agents that Epstein blackmailed her with nude photos and that her mother embezzled money from her employer trying to pay him off. Records confirm her mother was involved in such a crime around 1985 and was accused of stealing $22,000. The mother’s boss at a real estate firm pursued criminal charges.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt called the allegations “completely baseless” and came from a “sadly disturbed woman.” She claimed Trump “has been totally exonerated by the release of the Epstein Files.”
He has not been. Trump has not been charged with any crime, but there are more than 38,000 references to Trump, Melania, and Mar-a-Lago in the Justice Department’s Epstein document dump.
In her final FBI interview, the woman expressed doubt about pursuing the allegations given how much time had passed. “What’s the point?” she said.