A new media report has revealed that several details provided by a woman who accused former US President Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was 13 years old have been verified through official records. The findings strengthen the credibility of some aspects of her personal background, although they do not directly prove the allegations made against Trump.
According to a report published by The Daily Beast, the woman gave a series of statements during four interviews with the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2019. These interviews were included within the documents known as the Jeffrey Epstein files, which were recently released by the US Department of Justice. The interviews had originally remained confidential.
The newspaper reported that it was able to verify several details the woman provided about her family background and legal history using government archives and older media reports. However, the investigation noted that the confirmed facts do not directly relate to the allegations against Trump.
During her testimony to FBI investigators, the woman claimed that Trump forced her into a sexual act around 1984. She alleged that Epstein, who was known to have been a friend of Trump at the time, had recruited her and transported her to several men.
She also alleged that Epstein began sexually abusing and trafficking her when she was between 13 and 15 years old, after responding to a childcare services advertisement placed by her mother, who worked in real estate in the state of South Carolina.
In her account, she stated that one of the men who abused her was a businessman from Ohio whom she described as having grey hair and large ears. She said she believed he was associated with a college in the city of Cincinnati. According to the report, the man in question was indeed a member of that college’s board.
The woman also said that she encountered Epstein once in a non sexual context when she ran into him by chance at a concert by musician Rick James in Savannah, Georgia, when she was around 15 years old. Newspaper archives show that James performed frequently in that area during that period.
She further alleged that Epstein blackmailed her using nude photographs, and that her mother embezzled money from her workplace in an attempt to pay him around 1985. According to the report, records confirm that the woman’s mother was indeed involved in an embezzlement case during that period. She was accused of stealing approximately 22,000 dollars from a real estate company and later served time in a federal prison near Columbia, South Carolina.
The woman also said she first met Trump when Epstein took her to a tall building with large rooms in either New York or New Jersey while she was between 13 and 15 years old. According to the summary of FBI interviews, she claimed that Trump asked the other people in the room to leave before allegedly sexually assaulting her.
She alleged that Trump told her during the incident, “Let me show you how young girls are supposed to behave,” before forcing her into a sexual act. In a later interview, she also said Trump pulled her hair and struck the side of her head after the incident.
In her fourth and final interview with investigators, the woman said she had become hesitant about pursuing the accusations due to the decades that had passed since the alleged incident, asking, “What is the point now?”
Trump has repeatedly denied any wrongdoing related to his relationship with Epstein, and no criminal charges have been brought against him in this context. White House spokesperson Karoline Leavitt described the allegations as completely baseless, claiming they were made by a troubled woman with a long criminal record.
The US Department of Justice released a new batch of documents from the Epstein case last week following political criticism and pressure. The department said some files had previously been incorrectly classified as duplicates, which led to them being withheld.
Officials confirmed that an additional 20 documents were discovered and made available after a classification review.
According to a report by The New York Times, the Epstein files released by the Justice Department include more than 38,000 references to Trump, his wife Melania Trump, and his private club Mar a Lago, along with words and phrases connected to them.
