Newly released records linked to the investigation of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein contain an unverified sexual assault allegation against U.S. President Donald Trump, according to documents published by the U.S. Department of Justice.
The material was included in an additional batch of Epstein-related files released after officials acknowledged that some interview summaries had been mistakenly omitted from an earlier disclosure.
Allegation surfaced after Epstein’s 2019 arrest
According to the records, the allegation came from a woman who contacted the Federal Bureau of Investigation following Epstein’s arrest in 2019.
Investigators interviewed the woman four times while attempting to verify her claims.
During one of those interviews, she alleged that Epstein had flown her to either New York or New Jersey, where she claimed Trump attempted to sexually assault her. According to the FBI interview summary, the woman said she bit Trump during the encounter.
However, investigators later noted that the woman declined to provide further details about the alleged incident and eventually stopped communicating with authorities. Officials, therefore, said the allegation remains unconfirmed and uncorroborated.
Files withheld due to coding error
The Justice Department said the interview summaries were initially missing from the earlier public release because they had been incorrectly coded as duplicate records.
The issue was discovered after several media organizations reported that certain interview materials appeared to be absent from the original Epstein document disclosure.
In a statement, officials said the department routinely reviews concerns raised by the public regarding records published in the Epstein files database and republishes documents when errors are identified.
Trump denies wrongdoing
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing connected to Epstein.
Justice Department officials have also previously stated that investigators received multiple claims during the Epstein investigation that were later determined to be inaccurate or exaggerated, particularly during the politically charged period surrounding the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
It remains unclear whether Trump and Epstein had direct contact during the timeframe referenced in the allegation.
Growing scrutiny over Epstein files
The latest disclosure comes as scrutiny increases over the federal government’s handling of Epstein-related documents.
Members of the U.S. House Oversight Committee have voted to subpoena former Florida attorney general Pam Bondi to testify about the Justice Department’s management and release of the files.
Epstein died in a New York jail in 2019 while awaiting trial on federal sex trafficking charges, leaving thousands of pages of records that continue to be examined by investigators and lawmakers.
Officials say the scale of the document archive and the pace of disclosures may have contributed to classification and redaction errors during the public release process.
