LEFT: Jeffrey Epstein in an undated photograph released by the Department of Justice. (DOJ)
RIGHT: President Donald Trump addresses the nation after the shooting of two National Guard soldiers in Washington, D.C. (White House)
Newly unearthed court records reveal that in 2009, a woman accused President Donald Trump of having “knowledge” of Jeffrey Epstein’s “sexual desire for minor girls,” veteran journalist Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez wrote — an accusation she noted had been “available to law enforcement for 17 years.”
The accusation was discovered in a set of written answers provided by a woman who claimed to have been abused by Epstein as a minor between 2002 and 2005 at his home in Palm Beach, Florida. The filing is part of a lawsuit the woman, whose name is redacted in the document, brought against Epstein in the Circuit Court of the 15th Judicial Circuit in Palm Beach County.
The set of written answers was in response to questions provided by Epstein and his attorneys, according to the filing, one of which asked the woman to “list the names of all persons who are believed or known by you to have any knowledge concerning any of the issues in this lawsuit.”
The woman’s attorney or attorneys responded with a list of more than 50 names. Fifth on that list was “Donald Trump,” written more than seven years before he would become president.
Next to the listed names was a brief description of their knowledge concerning the lawsuit; one was accused by the woman of arranging for “underage girls to go to and from Jeff’s island,” and another, of being “Epstein’s house manager during [the] time our client went to him.” Trump was explicitly accused of having “knowledge of finances and [Epstein’s] sexual desire for minor girls.”
In the other written responses, the woman did not mention Trump again, but did detail the alleged abuse she endured while at Epstein’s home, which she claimed to have visited “more than 100 times.”
“I was made to touch the Defendant. I also observed sexual acts and had sexual acts perpetrated on me by Defendant, Jeffrey Epstein. At various times I was unclothed, as was the Defendant and others,” reads the written response in the legal filing.
“At all times material, I was a child, under the age of 18 years. The Defendant also used me to bring him other minor girls and he controlled and brainwashed me into believing this lifestyle was healthy and normal for a girl my age.”
The woman claimed that Epstein had paid her $200 after each instance of sexual abuse, as well as $200 for “each minor girl” she “brought him for the purposes of him engaging in sex acts with them.”
Epstein’s legal team asked the woman for the names and addresses of “all males, excluding Mr. Epstein, with whom you have had sexual activity since age 10,” a question that the woman’s attorney or attorneys rejected to answer on the basis of relevancy and it being a “harassing” question.
The woman also claimed to have been previously interviewed by the FBI, an interview during which she claimed to have been represented by an attorney paid for by Epstein amid the first criminal investigation into the disgraced financier that started in 2005. A 2007 FBI interview with “Jane Doe 2” appears to be the interview she described given its inclusion of matching details, including Epstein’s alleged offer to pay her $200 for bringing other girls to him.