'Ruled a suicide': Newly uncovered records support FBI tip about Epstein and Trump

Explosive claims in an FBI tip about President Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein gained new weight this week after a local newspaper uncovered death records consistent with details described in the tip.

In 2020, the FBI received a tip from an individual who said they had driven a passenger who alleged she was sexually assaulted by Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. The individual who submitted the tip claimed that they later learned their passenger had died and was “found with her head ‘blown off’ in Kiefer,” Oklahoma.

The FBI tip was made public Tuesday as part of the Justice Department’s ongoing release of Epstein files, which it was compelled by law to release after the passage of the Epstein Files Transparency Act. And, while the DOJ has stated that some of the files “contain untrue and sensationalist claims,” The Oklahoman uncovered death records this week consistent with the explosive claims.

“A 19-year-old student from Kiefer died on Jan. 10, 2000, according to death notices in two newspapers, the Tulsa World and the Sapulpa Herald,” wrote The Oklahoman reporter Nolan Clay in a report from the outlet published this week.

“The state's chief medical examiner, Dr. Eric Pfeifer, told The Oklahoman on Dec. 24 that the death of Dusti Rhea Duke was ruled a suicide by a gunshot to the head. Her body was found at an address in Sapulpa, which is near Kiefer, according to medical examiner records.”

The FBI tip was lodged by an individual who appears to have been a limousine driver who claimed to have driven Trump in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metropolitan Area in Texas in 1995. The limousine driver, according to the tip, told a passenger of theirs in 1999 about their encounter with Trump, which apparently sparked the passenger to share that they had been sexually assaulted by both Trump and Epstein.

The limousine driver encouraged their passenger to contact law enforcement about the alleged sexual assault according to the tip, to which the passenger objected, stating “they will kill me.” The limousine driver later attempted to follow up with the passenger only to learn that they had died in an apparent suicide.

The allegations made against Trump and Epstein are unverified, and no public record exists that law enforcement investigated or confirmed their authenticity.

While not mentioning the FBI tip explicitly, the DOJ warned that many claims included in its release of Epstein files may have been politically motivated, particularly those that “submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election,” as was the FBI tip, submitted in October of 2020.

“To be clear: the claims are unfounded and false, and if they had a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already,” reads a statement Tuesday from the DOJ.