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Newly released emails from convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein appear to reference former President Donald Trump, with Epstein claiming in one message that Trump “knew about the girls,” according to documents made public Wednesday by House Democrats.
The House Oversight Committee released three email chains spanning from 2011 to 2019, saying they were obtained from Epstein’s estate as part of its investigation into his criminal network and potential institutional failures in the federal probe that preceded his 2019 death.
Epstein died by suicide in a federal jail cell in August 2019 while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. His death has fueled years of speculation and conspiracy theories surrounding his connections to powerful figures across politics, finance, and media.
In one 2019 email to journalist Michael Wolff, Epstein allegedly wrote that Trump “knew about the girls.” The context of the message remains unclear, though it appears to reference the pair’s deteriorating friendship.
“The email, sent several months before Epstein’s death, reads: ‘Trump said he asked me to resign, never a member ever. Of course he knew about the girls as he asked Ghislaine to stop,’” the committee’s summary said.
Epstein and Trump were acquaintances for years before their relationship soured in the early 2000s. The Trump White House said in 2020 that Trump had “banned Epstein from Mar-a-Lago for being a creep.”
“He took people that worked for me. And I told him, ‘Don’t do it anymore.’ And he did it,” Trump said in 2019, adding, “I said, ‘Stay the hell out of here.’”
Another email released by the committee, dated 2011, shows Epstein writing to Ghislaine Maxwell, his longtime associate now serving a 20-year federal prison sentence for sex trafficking. In that message, Epstein allegedly claimed that Trump had spent time with one of his victims.
“I want you to realize that that dog that hasn’t barked is Trump,” the email reads. “[Victim] spent hours at my house with him … he has never once been mentioned. Police chief. etc. I’m 75% there.”
The committee redacted the alleged victim’s name. NBC News, which first reported the emails, said it has not independently verified their authenticity.
The House Oversight Committee said the messages were provided voluntarily by Epstein’s estate. The documents’ release follows weeks of scrutiny over a Justice Department memo that quietly closed its long-running review of Epstein and Maxwell’s network, concluding that no additional charges would be brought and no further evidence released — a decision that drew bipartisan criticism.
The emails add another layer of intrigue to a case that has long shadowed American politics and raised uncomfortable questions about the reach of Epstein’s influence — and the accountability of those within his orbit.
