The Justice Department on Thursday released previously unseen documents from the Epstein files that included new summaries and notes from interviews the FBI conducted with a woman from South Carolina who made allegations against the late sex offender and President Donald Trump, according to an NBC News analysis.
In a series of 2019 interviews with the FBI, the woman said she was a sexual assault victim of Jeffrey Epstein. She also alleged that she was assaulted by Trump in the 1980s when she was between the ages of 13 and 15.
The newly released interviews describe the allegations in detail. They include how the woman says her mother was blackmailed by Epstein and that for years after the alleged abusive from the disgraced financier she received physical and verbal threats that she believed were directed by Epstein. She also told the FBI that Epstein “drove her and/or flewher to either New York or New Jersey” where she went to a “very tall building with huge rooms” where she said Trump sexually assaulted her according to the FBI interview summaries.
The woman initially contacted federal law enforcement shortly after Epstein was arrested in 2019 with a lengthy description of how he assaulted her on Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, when she was 13 years old in or around 1984, according to a summary of the FBI interview that was previously released by the Justice Department.
The FBI determined that the woman’s initial allegations against Epstein were significant enough that the FBI followed up with her for three additional interviews. However, the fourth conversation was abbreviated.
The newly released documents do not include information about whether the agents considered the allegations credible or if they did additional work to verify or disprove the claims.
The Justice Department said in a statement Wednesday that it was working to “address victim concerns, redact personally identifiable information and any images of a sexual nature” and had taken 47,635 files offline for further review and redaction. The DOJ said it would be ready to reproduce them by the end of the week.
There is no evidence in the Wayback Machine internet archive that these documents were posted on the DOJ website before Thursday.
NBC News originally identified the missing interviews through an evidence catalog in the case against convicted Epstein co-conspirator Ghislaine Maxwell that was released by the Justice Department. A review of that log shows that well over 100 other files in the catalog remain unavailable on DOJ’s website.
In a Feb. 24 post on X, the Justice Department said, “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.”
On Thursday, when the missing files were posted on the DOJ website, the department said in a statement on X that it had “discovered 15 documents were incorrectly coded as duplicative.”
The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment early Friday morning.
The White House has repeatedly referred to a statement the Justice Department issued in January when the vast majority of the Epstein files were released. That Justice Department statement at the time said, “This production may include fake or falsely submitted images, documents or videos, as everything that was sent to the FBI by the public was included in the production that is responsive to the Act. Some of the documents contain untrue and sensationalist claims against President Trump that were submitted to the FBI right before the 2020 election. To be clear, the claims are unfounded and false, and if they have a shred of credibility, they certainly would have been weaponized against President Trump already.”
Authorities have not accused Trump of any wrongdoing in connection with Epstein.
The allegation against Trump has been referenced previously. It was included in a 2025 document prepared by the FBI’s Child Exploitation and Human Trafficking Task Force which summarized claims in which Trump was mentioned, reported to the National Threat Operations Center. The majority of those claims were deemed not credible or made by people who did not provide contact information.
It was also referenced, separately, in an FBI presentation that summarized the Epstein case.
The woman filed a lawsuit against Epstein’s estate in 2019, according to court filings and DOJ documents. It ended in a voluntary dismissal in 2021.
Rep. Robert Garcia of California, the top Democrat on the House Oversight Committee, previously said that the documents relating to the woman were not included in an unredacted collection of the files available for lawmakers to view at the Justice Department.
The Justice Department said in Thursday’s post that it “will also make available all files coded as duplicative in unredacted form for Members of Congress to review in the Congressional Reading Room.”
The Epstein Files Transparency Act allows DOJ to withhold records that contain victim information, child sexual abuse materials, or information that could jeopardize an ongoing federal investigation or prosecution. It prohibits, however, withholding documents “on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary.”
The release of the new documents comes a day after the Republican-led House Oversight Committee voted 24-19 to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi for testimony on the DOJ’s handling of the Epstein files.
“We are going to end this White House cover-up,” Garcia wrote on X Thursday.
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