The Justice Department has withheld notes and memos reflecting FBI interviews from its release of the Epstein files, including interviews with a woman who accused President Donald Trump of sexually abusing her when she was a minor, MS NOW has confirmed.
NPR reported on Tuesday that more than 50 pages of notes and memos reflecting FBI interviews with the woman are not found in the Justice Department’s publicly released database of documents related to convicted and deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein.
According to a source who has viewed the unredacted documents, a woman interviewed by the FBI in July 2019 about her Epstein allegations is the same woman who alleged that Trump forced her to perform oral sex on him 35 years ago, when she was 13 or 14 years old, and subsequently hit her. That allegation appears in a 2025 PowerPoint presentation detailing each of the FBI’s Epstein-related investigations and a spreadsheet of unconfirmed tips called into the bureau’s National Threat Operations Center reviewed by MS NOW. MS NOW has found that of at least four interviews the FBI conducted with the woman related to the Epstein investigations, only one memo — and no handwritten notes — reflecting such an interview is included on the DOJ site.
At about the same time that the FBI circulated its PowerPoint presentation and spreadsheet of tips, a third FBI document — an internal email — stated that “salacious information” about Trump, among others, appeared in the “JE file,” and that “one identified victim claimed abuse by Trump but ultimately refused to cooperate.” MS NOW cannot confirm that the “identified victim” referred to in that email is the Trump accuser referenced above.
The FBI also interviewed a woman known as “Jane,” who testified under oath at the trial of Ghislaine Maxwell, Epstein’s longtime associate who was sentenced to 20 years in prison for conspiring with Epstein to sexually abuse minors. “Jane” claimed she was introduced to Trump by Epstein at Mar-a-Lago when she was 14 years old. MS NOW has found that handwritten notes from interviews with “Jane” — as well as witness statements from at least one person close to her — about her experience, including with respect to her interaction with Trump, are either not included in the DOJ’s release or have since been taken down.
“Covering up direct evidence of a potential assault by the President of the United States is the most serious possible crime in this White House cover-up,” said Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee
Democrats have blasted the incomplete release of the Epstein files, characterizing it as a breach of the Epstein Files Transparency Act, which President Trump signed into law in November after it passed through Congress with near unanimity.
“Covering up direct evidence of a potential assault by the President of the United States is the most serious possible crime in this White House cover-up,” said Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, which is conducting an investigation into the DOJ release. The Justice Department on Tuesday afternoon said on X that Oversight Democrats “should stop misleading the public.” “NOTHING” has been deleted, DOJ argued, explaining that “if files are temporarily pulled for victim redactions or to redact Personally Identifiable Information, then those documents are promptly restored online and are publicly available.” “ALL responsive documents have been produced unless a document falls within one of the following categories: duplicates, privileged, or part of an ongoing federal investigation,” DOJ maintained. MS NOW has contacted the White House for comment about the missing pages. White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson told NPR in a statement, “just as President Trump has said, he’s been totally exonerated on anything relating to Epstein … and by releasing thousands of pages of documents, cooperating with the House Oversight Committee’s subpoena request, signing the Epstein Files Transparency Act, and calling for more investigations into Epstein’s Democrat friends, President Trump has done more for Epstein’s victims than anyone before him. Meanwhile, Democrats like Hakeem Jeffries and Stacey Plaskett have yet to explain why they were soliciting money and meetings from Epstein after he was a convicted sex offender.”
Lisa Rubin is MS NOW's senior legal reporter and a former litigator.
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